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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Visual Art Currently Hanging

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:07 PM

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^{Dennis Evans's The Physician (The Alchemist) (2008), encaustic and mixed media on canvas, 60 by 48 by 5 inches}

At Woodside/Braseth Gallery. (Gallery site here.)

I have tried repeatedly to warm up to Dennis Evans's strict, perfectionist paintings of systems of knowledge, but they drive me away every time.

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Well. It looks like a magazine illustration. (to my uneducated eye)

Posted by Patti on January 21, 2009 at 3:21 PM

Looks like a textbook cover to me.

Posted by Levislade on January 21, 2009 at 3:22 PM

Looks like the box cover to a game that has a really steep learning curve. Pretty colors, though.

Posted by seattle mike on January 21, 2009 at 3:28 PM

What if it was painted by a MONKEY? Would it be warmer?

Posted by sockthemonkey on January 21, 2009 at 5:26 PM

How can anyone warm to such inert pretentiousness?

Posted by Jim Demetre on January 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM

so, you're thinking whooshy 90s overlapped faux-roman text, but paint instead of photoshop? fuck yeah bro - make it happen!

Posted by jerry bruckheimer, art producer on January 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM

I don't mind "perfectionist paintings of systems of knowledge." But this looks like a Dave McKean comic book cover from the mid-nineties. Not so much.

Posted by paulus on January 21, 2009 at 6:23 PM

Oh, I love them. They remind me of Cornell in a weird, reality vs. fiction kind of way.

Posted by carly d. on January 22, 2009 at 2:06 PM