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Email PageAnother Green World
November 14, 2006- December 9, 2006
Reception: November 16, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Robert Appleton
Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art
525 W 29th St Robert Appleton Regarding The White Horse (2006) |
"Another Green World" refers to other places within a human context - in the spiritual, psychological, and the metaphysical. The artist explores pathos as his subjects deal, seduce, escape, and decide. Works in the exhibition observe how humans are inherently contradictory: productive/destructive; deliberate/spontaneous; and here/there. "Another Green World" speaks to adventure and escapism through travel, books, and a multitude of named and unnamed coping mechanisms.
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the Genesis story inform the paintings and drawings. The artist's exploration looks to philosophical and psychological changes through the course of life from childhood through adulthood to the prospect of death.
"Regarding The White Horse," a small painting of two canvases joined and layered with paint and vellum, depicts a white horse in a meadow and an imaginary figure - with a foot as a head - reaching out tenderly towards the animal. Typical in scale for the artist and derived from classical portraiture and landscape painting, the artist brings a fresh twist that is both naïve and sophisticated. His work embodies an awkward beauty.
The exhibition features works on paper, some mounted on canvas, some collaged. A small sculptural piece of butterflies made with solarized paper adds to the sense of flight and transcendence.
Appleton will be included in a show curated by Millie Burns at the Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College in New York in December. Previously his oeuvre has been included in reviews and photo reproductions in Gay City News, The New York Sun, and other publications. The artist lives and works in New York City. The artist is represented by PSCA and this will be his second solo show at the gallery.
Art Reviews of Another Green World
| Gay City News November 30, 2006 | Frank Holliday | "... In "Morphing," a crudely drawn heterosexual couple engages in intercourse; she resides between two landscape locations, the physical, and her own mental imagined landscape, splitting and escaping the realities at hand. These drawing evoke Blake but with a childlike, bad boy illustrative attitude...." |
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