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"An artist has contrived to lure me out of myself into an allusion of reality more fulfilling than any lived reality can be." Peter Schjeldahl in the New Yorker 9/21/09

Monday, November 30, 2009

Waiting Crowd

Wayne Gonzales. Waiting Crowd. 2009.
Acrylic on Canvas.

Is the gathered group receiving a warning? Watching a performance? The answer’s unclear, which is just as Gonzales intends it. His paintings probe the evidentiary nature of representation, casting doubt on the adage “seeing is believing.”


Edouard Manet. Music in the Tuileires. 1862


The spectacle has evolved beyond the point of engagement...




Wayne Gonzales at Paula Cooper Gallery through December 18th...

at 6:32 PM

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This blog, named after a dance by Meredith Monk, is about painting and photography -- mostly painting -- in the age of "influence anxiety."