| Material Witness-New Paintings |
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| Mar 12 - Apr 3, 1999 | |
During March, The George Adams Gallery will exhibit new paintings by Chester Arnold. The exhibition consists of a new series of paintings, inspired by the experience of cleaning out his garage in Sonoma, California, titled Material Witness. This will be Chester Arnold's second one-man exhibition at the gallery. The paintings in the exhibition are all close-up views of the detritus of a lifetime: heaps of discarded items that mark the various stages of life from childhood to adulthood and old age. For example, among the images in The Painter's Life, 1999 are a ladder, an old shoe, a bicycle tire, a broken icebox, odd bits of plumbing, and an artist's palette. The pile in Arrivals and Departures, 1999, fills the entire canvas and includes , among other things, a doll, a cane, a bathtub, a statue of Jesus, a flag and flagpole; in the middle of it all is the artist himself rendering it all on canvas. Clearing, 1999, on the other hand, depicts the vast hole in the ground that is the ultimate destination for all these discards. Exhibition Checklist Clockwise from the right: 1. Empire of the Tire, 1999 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 23 2. Arrivals and Departures, 1999 oil on linen 42 x 50 inches CAp 19 3. Ein Kunstlerleben (An Artist's Life), 1999 oil on linen 42 x 50 inches CAp 18 4. Clearance, 1999 oil on linen 42 x 50 inches CAp 20 5. Reading Material, 1999 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 17 6. Landfill, 1998 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 21 7. East Coast, 1996 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 07 8. The Effects of Bad Government #2, 1996 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 08 9. Tired Landscape, 1999 oil on linen 36 x 42 inches CAp 16 10. Meadowlands, 1999 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 24 11. Bad Road, 1999 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 25 12. Modus Operandi II, 1997 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 13 13.The Fate of Durable Goods, 1999 oil on linen 42 x 50 inches CAp 15 14. Horn of Plenty, 1999 oil on linen 18 x 22 inches CAp 22 |
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