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Auguries of Innocence

January 23 – February 22, 2020

Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Auguries of Innocence
Alison Blickle, Sigil Skirt, 2020

Alison Blickle

Sigil Skirt, 2020

Oil on Canvas

70h x 42w in

Lamar Peterson, Untitled, 2005

Lamar Peterson

Untitled, 2005

Oil on canvas

34 1/2h x 40w in

Danica Lundy, Kiss the Clock, 2020

Danica Lundy

Kiss the Clock, 2020

Oil on Canvas

72 1/2h x 48 1/2w in

Todd Bienvenu, Hammock, 2019

Todd Bienvenu

Hammock, 2019

Oil on canvas

45h x 53w in

Haley Josephs, Susanna, 2019

Haley Josephs

Susanna, 2019

Oil on canvas

48h x 36w in

Cristina de Miguel, The Creation of Eve (After Blake), 2019

Cristina de Miguel

The Creation of Eve (After Blake), 2019

Oil on canvas

72h x 60w in

Cristina BanBan, Canto XXIV. La Casa De Las Ladronas, 2020

Cristina BanBan

Canto XXIV. La Casa De Las Ladronas, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

71h x 59w in

Orkideh Torabi, Where are all the houries?, 2018

Orkideh Torabi

Where are all the houries?, 2018

Fabric dye on stretched cotton

37h x 43w in

Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Fur Trader, 2020

Jamea Richmond-Edwards

Fur Trader, 2020

Ink, acrylic, cut paper collage, and glitter on canvas

72h x 48w in

Todd Bienvenu, Seashell, 2019

Todd Bienvenu

Seashell, 2019

Oil on canvas

35h x 40w in

Kelli Williams, The Wise Virgins, 2019

Kelli Williams

The Wise Virgins, 2019

Oil on panel

18h x 30w in

Cristina de Miguel, The Centaur, 2019

Cristina de Miguel

The Centaur, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

72h x 60w in

Press Release

Auguries of Innocence

January 23 through February 22, 2020

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 23, 6-8pm

 

Cristina BanBan

Todd Bienvenu

Alison Blickle

Haley Josephs

Danica Lundy

Cristina de Miguel

Lamar Peterson

Jamea Richmond-Edwards

Orkideh Torabi

Kelli Williams

 

 

“A dog starvd at his Masters Gate

Predicts the ruin of the State…”

-- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

 

Lately, we’ve been thinking about the artist and poet William Blake. He looms large over this moment. With his blockbuster show at the Tate Britain, he seems to be a fitting touchstone to highlight the new strain of Romanticism that runs through much of today’s figurative painting.

The ten painters in this exhibition were presented with the idea of William Blake as an organizing principle. Blake’s poem, for which this show lifts its title, tracks the fate of innocence in a corrupt world. It provides a unifying context for a varied group of painters who depict deeply human figures emblematic of a world, like Blake’s, where vice sits side by side with virtue and mankind is on the verge of chaos.