"Crown" 2021 , oil on linen, 60 x 72 in. 152.4 x 182.9 cm.
Stephen P. Curry
October 23 - November 24, 2021
SHADOWLAND - Stephen P. Curry
In a recent interview the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans said, “The most important part of art is that it should never be unambiguous.”
In revisiting ideas of representation and still life from earlier bodies of work, the painting process has become both an examination of the isolation of the studio, as well as a contemplation of the divisions, distortions and isolations of society these past two years and continuing. These still lives began as an investigation of form and the complexities of color more than the actual subject matter. The subject matter can be ordinary, symbolic, provocative, sensuous, humorous or meaningless.
They are intentionally ambiguous, open to interpretation by the viewer and consequently about numerous conflicting ideas all at the same time. What is presented and promoted to us constantly is not real and what is overlooked and right before our eyes is the real. The perception of Nature or the nature of Perception.
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