| Sep 12 - Oct 12, 2002 | |
During September and October the George Adams Gallery will present new work by James McGarrell. The exhibition will feature new small canvases and recent works in blue and white porcelain tile. This exhibition is McGarrell's 19th one-man show at the gallery since 1961. In a departure from his most recent exhibitions, which featured large-scale, multi-paneled paintings, the works included in this current exhibition are small - 10 x 10 inch - canvases. Although intimately scaled, the paintings are not sketches but fully developed and often carefully detailed narrative paintings. For example, Erigone depicts a scene from classical Greek mythology, in which Erigone, the daughter of the discoverer of the recipe for wine, comes upon her father shortly after he has sampled the results of his labor. The small canvas depicts the two figures, one recumbent beside a wine vat in an orchard set in a lush Mediterranean landscape. In addition to the single canvases there are also several small-scale diptychs. Farm Fire, for example, depicts a conflagration seen through a barn door, and juxtaposes an interior with an exterior complete with farm animals in an 8 x 20-inch format. Along with the canvases, the gallery will also show several works in blue and white porcelain tile. McGarrell first exhibited his glazed porcelain tiles in 1995, and recently began working on more complex compositions consisting of multiple tiles. Two of the more ambitious tile compositions, Night and Day 2001, a 40-piece tile table top measuring 24 x 60 inches that is viewed from two sides, and Falconer Self Portrait, a landscape consisting of 24 tiles that measures18 x 48 inches, are both included in the current exhibition. James McGarrell was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1930. Only four years out of graduate school at UCLA, McGarrell was the youngest of the twenty-three artists exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art's controversial "New Images of Man" exhibition in 1959. He has exhibited widely in both the United States and Europe, participating in five Whitney Museum Annuals and Biennials; two Carnegie International exhibitions; Documenta in Kassel, Germany; the Dunn International held at the Tate Gallery, London; "Modern American Paintings", Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston and the National Pinakothiki, Athens, Greece; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Venice Biennale. He currently lives and works in Newbury, Vermont. Exhibition Checklist beginning clockwise from reception desk: 1. Erigone, 2002 oil on linen 10 x 10 inches JMp 85 2. Crows, 2002 oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches JMp 98 3. Roadside, 2002 oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches JMp 104 4. Flatlands, 2001 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches JMp 71 5. Strand, 2001 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches JMp 73 6. Program, 2001 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches JMp 69 7. Etna, 2001 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches JMp 68 8. Valley, 2001 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches JMp 70 9. Scarlatti, 2001 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches JMp 74 10. Tub, 2001 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches JMp 67 11. Flight, 2001 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches JMp 76 12. Double Self Portrait, Bison, 2001-2002 oil on canvas diptych: 10 x 20 inches JMp 78 13. Farm Fire, 2002 oil on linen diptych: 10 x 20 inches JMp 81 14. Double Self Portrait, Bedroom, 2001 oil on canvas diptych: 10 x 20 inches JMp 77 15. Twisters, 2002 oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches JMp 99 16. Haystack, 2002 oil on linen 10 x 10 inches JMp 86 17. Shower, 2002 oil on linen 10 x 10 inches JMp 83 18. Jukebox, 2002 oil on linen 10 x 10 inches JMp 88 19. Night and Day, 2001 glazed porcelain tile 24 x 60 inches JMs 37 20. Falconer Self Portrait, 2001-2002 glazed porcelain tile 18 x 48 inches JMs 38 21. Oceanside, 2002 oil on canvas diptych: 10 x 20 inches JMp 97 22. Beached Boat, 2002 oil on linen diptych: 10 x 20 inches JMp 82 23. Assault, 2002 oil on panel 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches JMp 95 24. Shore, 2001 oil on panel 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches JMp 89 25. Cookstove, 2002 oil on panel 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches JMp 96 26. Storm, 2002 oil on panel 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches JMp 90 27. Salon, 2002 oil on panel 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches JMp 93 28. Behemoths, 2002 oil on panel 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches JMp 94 29. Audition, 2002 oil on panel 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches JMp 91 30. Biker, 2002 oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches JMp 101 31. Tasting, 2002 oil on canvas 10 x 10 inches JMp 102 |
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