As traffic runs through Boston’s historic Newbury Street, passerby dash in and out of upscale shops with designer bags from Chanel, Valentino and Tiffany & Co. Yet, at Arden Gallery, visitors are transported far beyond the bustling urban streets with art of Boston-born John Stockwell in his exhibit, “Fields of Flax and Blue Belles.” Oil paint rises from the canvases like little mountains, as vibrant flowers bloom in rows, receding into a horizon that stretches out into endlessness. Skies are stroked with blues and whites, creating a kind of smoothness. The experience of viewing any of Stockwell’s works is one of magnitude and intensity because his impasto painting or the application of thickly-layered paint is one that lessens the space between gallery guests and the painting. It brings guests closer to it and takes them into the blooming flower rows of Sweden and its mesmeric … [Read more...] about TEXTURAL LANDSCAPES: JOHN STOCKWELL’S FIELDS OF FLAX AND BLUE BELLES AT ARDEN GALLERY
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William Eggleston: At Zenith
At Gagosian New York Gallery By Nancy Nesvet New York City, NY - “William Eggleston: At Zenith,” currently showing at Gagosian New York Gallery, includes 15 large-scale pigment prints, each measuring 44” X 60”, from Eggleston’s “Wedgewood Blue” cloud series. The prints result from a 1978 photographic exercise when Eggleston lay on the ground during daylight in Tennessee and aimed his early instant camera at celestial zenith, directly overhead. The resulting views of fluffy clouds in a cerulean blue sky present postcard images, in keeping with Eggleston’s history of as a flaneur, incorporating fragments of his world into his photographic oeuvre. These photographs, from 1979 negatives, printed digitally from scans of the original negatives allow a color saturation that exceeds that of the dye transfer process Eggleston used in past work, and continues a tradition of cloud painting … [Read more...] about William Eggleston: At Zenith