Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 20 February 2009

Friday, February 20th from 5-8pm

Jed Jackson - New Work: Paintings
Jed Jackson's beautifully rendered landscapes and figurative oil paintings embody realism with a distinctive twist. Gleaning inspiration from fashion magazines, movies, literature and a plethora of other twentieth century cultural sources, Jackson incorporates these images and ideas with a keen sense of color to create paintings that are simultaneously rich in content and aesthetically dynamic.

Mark Douglas: Photography
Mark Douglas' current body of work explores form using books as subject matter. Photography does several things by default. The first of which, is the presentation of evidence or the creation of documents. Through this documentary nature, photography carries a weight of truth for the viewer, much as the written word. The books are presented on edge, recorded in a contorted state, in an ambiguous space. Thus the 'truth', the evidence that Douglas creates, is left open to interpretation by the viewer. These abstracted tomes are not intended to be narrative; rather they are, "about photography presenting an absolute, evidentiary truth, and simultaneously no truth at all. They are about levels of interpretation and understanding and about information revealed, and information concealed."


Deb Douglas: Painting, Works on Paper
Deb Douglas' paintings explore pattern and color relationships through imagery from pop culture, ads, art history, landscape and various flora and fauna. Using a common vocabulary of images from society's collective past, her unique juxtapositions of pop images with various marks or patterns transform the iconography into reflections of the present. "Combining these elements with various stylistic tendencies creates a personal narrative that allows me to explore my own experiences on a conceptual basis while working within the construct of formalism. This dichotomy is at the heart of all the art I make. Images are derived from high and low art, from my knowledge of art history, from popular culture and from objects and ideas close to me."

Duane Reed Gallery
7513 Forsyth Blvd
St. Louis MO 63105
314.862.2333