GO FIGURE:
Contemporary Painters and the Human Form
Lindy Chambers, Home Alone, 2020, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Otis Huband, Soldiers Dream, 2020, Oil on canvas, 54 x 41 ¾ inches
Vera Barnett, The Painted Word: In/Out, 2011, Oil on linen, 48 1/8 x 48 inches
January 22 - April 3, 2021
Go Figure includes the work of six artists who use the human figure in their work. Each of these artists’ unique interpretations of human form reflect back to the viewer an insight into the human condition. The trompe l’oeil paintings by Vera Barnett and more classically painted works by Barnaby Fitzgerald border on the surreal, while the work of Miles Cleveland Goodwin and Sean Cairns tend toward the nonfictional, personal, and melancholy. The intense, expressive color of Lindy Chambers compositions and the evocative linear forms in Otis Huband’s paintings are more abstract and leave some interpretation up to the viewer. This exhibition—surreal, melancholy, and expressive—is presented as a collective reflection on the human condition.
Courtesy of the artists and Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden.
SEASON EXHIBITION SPONSORS
Anonymous
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Engler
Dr. Kent Roberts and Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith
David D. and Nona S. Payne Foundation
Sean Cairns, Hermit, 2020, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Miles Cleveland Goodwin, The Baker, 2018, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
Barnaby Fitzgerald, Patience, 2020, Oil on canvas, 60 1/8 x 80 1/8 inches