PACKER SCHOPF GALLERY |
GLEN DAVIES |
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| PREVIOUS EXHIBIT |
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| October 19 - November 24 |
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| GLEN DAVIES |
| Revelations: New Paintings |
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| Meticulously rendered psychological dramas in vibrant color and sharp edged line. --Acrylic on primed, unstretched, grommeted canvas. |
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A revelation is a disclosing or revealing of something. What that is for Davies can be a mystery, contradiction, or dilemma. In trying to make sense of our world, Davies preaches through his art. To seduce us into this world, he offers clues, to help navigate through his complicated works. Davies' technique is masterful. The paintings are painstakingly rendered, vibrant in electric color, and pulse with swirling sharp-edged line. Drawing on many influences Davies chooses the most successful devices from his numerous influences: folk art, underground comics, surrealism, renaissance panels, Mexican retablos and circus banners. His work is narrative in a wild and mysterious way. Loaded with enticing symbols and signs, each painting is propelled forward through the use of visual metaphor. Davies' icons manifest in odd combinations and serve as checkpoints to the layers of truth and tale that unfold.
--the human figure, stylized and muscular --stage sets, curtains, and spotlights --daylight and twilight, fire and water --the barren landscape and decaying city --coffee cups and martini glasses --anthropomorphic trees and spirals of stars --and handfuls of idiosyncratic images Titles also play an important role in these psycho-dramas, and often refer to a colloquial phrase or proverb providing a key to "help unlock the riddle of the painting." Inevitably though, Davies' art remains a mystery, and thus its appeal. Like many things in life, itıs the journey that keeps you engaged. That is the satisfaction of Davies' Revelations. --Gallery One features large scale acrylics on primed, unstretched, grommetted canvas, a formal reference to Davies' interest in the sideshow banner. (To this day he paints banners for some of the few remaining regional shows that time apparently has not caught up with). --Gallery Two features Davies' smaller scale, "jewels" -- paintings less than one foot square, and heavily-worked mixed media drawings. |
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| Packer Schopf Gallery |
| 942 W. Lake St. |
| p 312.226.8984,
c 773.458.3150 f 312.226.8985 |
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