Two New Exhibitions Coming to Polk Museum of Art
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by meredith
Categories: Arts, General, Upcoming
Radcliffe Bailey, Tobacco Blues, 2000, Aquatint, etching, drypoint, photogravure, and chine collé, Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of the McNay, 2006.56.
Miroslav Antic has become known for his stunning paintings that feature formal indoor or outdoor settings, depicted in astonishing detail. However, he covers these images with a sheer layer of paint and adds a pattern on top, sometimes water droplets and sometimes simple dots, that reminds us that what we are looking at is just out of reach.
In Family Album, he works from family photographs in much the same way. The added personal content brings a new sense of dealing with the past. By taking one object that reflects his family and turning it into a second object, he is able to focus on the important meaning represented in the subject of the photograph, while grappling with the increased distance between him and the depicted scene.
Radcliffe Bailey has quickly become recognized as one of the most important artists working in the Southeast. His work is the combination of personal reflection and innovation within a serious understanding of artistic traditions. Much of his work uses vintage sepia-tone photographs of African-Americans. Using these images as the centerpiece of his artworks, he constructs sophisticated collaged artworks around them that reflect, in abstract ways, the presence of history within our contemporary world.
Radcliffe Bailey: Between Two Worlds is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
A reception for the exhibitions will be held Friday, November 14. Both artists will attend and will speak about their work at 6:00pm with the reception following at 7pm. The reception is free for Museum members and $10 for non-members.
Miroslav Antic, A Special Ed Teacher, 2006, Oil on canvas, 58” x 76”, Courtesy of the artist.
