Post by virtu on Apr 25, 2009 6:57:02 GMT -8
This will be an outstanding show.
Love Wilcox's landscapes.
Info From MK Gallery Below
www.mkgallery.com/page_exhibitions_la_current.html
EDWARD WALTON WILCOX: RECENT WORK
April 25 – May 23, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 8-11pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm
Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by artist Edward Walton
Wilcox. Wilcox’s sepia-toned gothic paintings and Medieval-style altarpieces merge classical technique with modern perception.
Wilcox’s haunting paintings of young blond girls and landscapes of beauty and impeding disaster are seeped in symbolic context.
Warm umbers accentuated with subtle flesh tones are achieved through a series of burnishing and glazing techniques, giving the work a shadowy depth seldom seen since the Illuminists of the 1800’s.
While Wilcox’s paintings reference the highly romanticized past of previous centuries, his constructions evoke religious iconography dating back to the beginning of mankind’s search for salvation.
A carved wooden altarpiece of Noah’s Ark includes sea dragons and black birds circling its gothic spires.
The back room of the exhibition is transformed into a snowy winter’s day, with a full-size wagon carrying a simple wooden coffin.
Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot says, “Edward Walton Wilcox manifests an unforgettable hybrid vision.
His work is torn between the edgy urban modernism of his real-time generation and the chestnut-toned embrace of Medieval and Renaissance glazes, depicting a pastoral, Godfearing world.
Whether allowing a cheeky wit and dark humor to infiltrate cozy representations of farms and valleys, or constructing elaborate altarpieces dedicated to the worship of mystery and omen, Wilcox merges styles and mythologies to moving effect.”
The artist explains, “My work is a moral critique of a world attempting to shroud itself in beauty and diversion in the midst of its own collapse.
My intention is for the work to have a preternatural effect on the viewer; evoking at times a sense of awe, terror, insignificance, romantic sensuality, allusions to our self-destructive nature, the temporal nature of beauty and life, and the decay of the material world as a constant of which we are always aware.”
Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Wilcox earned a BFA in Painting with high honors from the University of Florida, where he also received the Presidential Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Wilcox’s work has shown in California, New York, Florida, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and has appeared in publications such as The LA Times, Juxtapoz, Coagula Art Journal and FLAUNT Magazine.
For More Information, please contact Merry Karnowsky at mkgallery@att.net.
edwardwaltonwilcox.com/index.php?menu=news
Love Wilcox's landscapes.
Info From MK Gallery Below
www.mkgallery.com/page_exhibitions_la_current.html
EDWARD WALTON WILCOX: RECENT WORK
April 25 – May 23, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 8-11pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm
Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by artist Edward Walton
Wilcox. Wilcox’s sepia-toned gothic paintings and Medieval-style altarpieces merge classical technique with modern perception.
Wilcox’s haunting paintings of young blond girls and landscapes of beauty and impeding disaster are seeped in symbolic context.
Warm umbers accentuated with subtle flesh tones are achieved through a series of burnishing and glazing techniques, giving the work a shadowy depth seldom seen since the Illuminists of the 1800’s.
While Wilcox’s paintings reference the highly romanticized past of previous centuries, his constructions evoke religious iconography dating back to the beginning of mankind’s search for salvation.
A carved wooden altarpiece of Noah’s Ark includes sea dragons and black birds circling its gothic spires.
The back room of the exhibition is transformed into a snowy winter’s day, with a full-size wagon carrying a simple wooden coffin.
Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot says, “Edward Walton Wilcox manifests an unforgettable hybrid vision.
His work is torn between the edgy urban modernism of his real-time generation and the chestnut-toned embrace of Medieval and Renaissance glazes, depicting a pastoral, Godfearing world.
Whether allowing a cheeky wit and dark humor to infiltrate cozy representations of farms and valleys, or constructing elaborate altarpieces dedicated to the worship of mystery and omen, Wilcox merges styles and mythologies to moving effect.”
The artist explains, “My work is a moral critique of a world attempting to shroud itself in beauty and diversion in the midst of its own collapse.
My intention is for the work to have a preternatural effect on the viewer; evoking at times a sense of awe, terror, insignificance, romantic sensuality, allusions to our self-destructive nature, the temporal nature of beauty and life, and the decay of the material world as a constant of which we are always aware.”
Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Wilcox earned a BFA in Painting with high honors from the University of Florida, where he also received the Presidential Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Wilcox’s work has shown in California, New York, Florida, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and has appeared in publications such as The LA Times, Juxtapoz, Coagula Art Journal and FLAUNT Magazine.
For More Information, please contact Merry Karnowsky at mkgallery@att.net.
edwardwaltonwilcox.com/index.php?menu=news
