By calling attention to the physical object, Johnnie Winona Ross allows the viewer to feel a sense of transendance beyond the weight of the object itself.
Jon Carsman was a classic example of a creative and charismatic American artist who, during his short but productive career, lived a vibrant life and died tragically young. He was described as one of the New Realist or Photo Realist painters who…
Old Master tradition, sacred myth, and now modern pathology and film noir are the sources that collectively inform the works in this exhibition. The real and the imagined, the present and the past all have equal weight.
The paintings of Wade Schuman, distinguised by observational skill, technical mastery, and recognizable subject matter is, however, less about Realism and more about Illusion. What is at the issue in his painting is not how depictions are madeto…