Philip Slein Gallery: Friday, 4 April 2008
Love, Kisses, Tears (and heartache)! Opening Reception, Friday, April 4, 6-9pm. Runs through May 3, 2008
The Philip Slein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by one of Chicago’s most important and venerable artists, Phyllis Bramson. Bramson calls her paintings “ruminations about submerged eroticism played out against operatic opulence, refined and dressed to reflect the terrible melancholy of notalgia and loss.” She says she is interested in work that is beautiful but “lurid, libidinal, and pathological; work that uses sex to project identity, betrayal, loss.”
Bramson says that she was inspired by dreams of mysterious places, and when she finally traveled to Asia it occurred to her that this was what she had been dreaming about. Her painting evokes dreams. They are oneric, like Darger’s. Like Darger, Bramson creates landscapes filled with figures drawn from mechanically reproduced images. Like Darger, all of whose artistic efforts went towards a childlike depiction of an imaginary planet, Bramson has tirelessly depicted her childlike vision of “the East,” a place where she has traced her origins.
In addition, the Philip Slein Gallery is pleased to present a show of small-scale work by 40 of our favorite artists --our own personal top 40 for 2008.
Tues-Sat. 11am-4pm.
The Philip Slein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by one of Chicago’s most important and venerable artists, Phyllis Bramson. Bramson calls her paintings “ruminations about submerged eroticism played out against operatic opulence, refined and dressed to reflect the terrible melancholy of notalgia and loss.” She says she is interested in work that is beautiful but “lurid, libidinal, and pathological; work that uses sex to project identity, betrayal, loss.”
Bramson says that she was inspired by dreams of mysterious places, and when she finally traveled to Asia it occurred to her that this was what she had been dreaming about. Her painting evokes dreams. They are oneric, like Darger’s. Like Darger, Bramson creates landscapes filled with figures drawn from mechanically reproduced images. Like Darger, all of whose artistic efforts went towards a childlike depiction of an imaginary planet, Bramson has tirelessly depicted her childlike vision of “the East,” a place where she has traced her origins.
In addition, the Philip Slein Gallery is pleased to present a show of small-scale work by 40 of our favorite artists --our own personal top 40 for 2008.
Tues-Sat. 11am-4pm.
The Philip Slein Gallery
314.621.4634
1319 Washington Ave. Downtown, St. Louis, MO 63103
314.621.4634
1319 Washington Ave. Downtown, St. Louis, MO 63103
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