Michael De Jong's images perform an operation of individuation, defining the viewer---the self---as isolated, withdrawn from the world, yet spying on it.
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…
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.
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.