TABLA RASA GALLERY - Portrait Show Walk About

The Portrait, Painted and Personal
Curator's statement:

What is a portrait? It is a painting, drawing, sculpture or photograph of the physical or psychological likeness of a real or imaginary person. Historically, portraits symbolized the majesty, authority or religiosity of a subject. As a means to immortality, the portrait replaced the living presence of the dead.

The Portrait, Painted and Personal, presents the genre of portrait painting with the works of five contemporary figurative painters: Audrey Anastasi, Robin Gaynes-Bachman, Nana Deleplanque, Robin Ross and Giustina Surbone. All combine realism, abstraction and form to create large-scale work.




These five artists work in a personal manner without idealizing the subject. Using traditional rather than conceptual methods, they display mastery without arrogance. Because they are fueled by their experience, personal expression is a priority over faithfully reproducing the subject in their work. Perhaps, in spite of this, the artists capture the physicality and individuality of human identity, sometimes of themselves, sometimes of their subject, sometimes of the intersection of both artist and subject. From this perspective, The Portrait, Painted and Personal invites us to go beyond simply examining the beauty and detail of exquisite painting.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Tabla Rasa
• Gallery
• Anastasi
• Ross
• Surbone
• Gaynes-Bachman
• Delepanque
• Brooklyn
• Sunset Park

[gingercrystal]

Check out the gallery talk where participating artists talk about these works. It's here on YouTube, 6 parts under the title and playlist Quintalogue

[jaccusse]

Way to go Robin! Love your vinyls!