SURFACE TO BEGIN WITH

December 2011 — November 2012

This exhibition shows works by seventeen contemporary artists (two added since this installation shot was taken), all of whom explore, in different, imaginative ways, opposites central in every work of art: Surface and Depth. In drawings, prints, watercolors, pastels, and paintings, these opposites are boldly, subtly made one. And through comments accompanying the works, you’ll see what Aesthetic Realism greatly explains: We can learn from art to have what we deeply feel and what we show be in an honest and beautiful relation in our lives.

DEPTH & SURFACE: Is painting, like art itself, a presentation of the “on top,” obvious, immediate?—and is it also a presentation of what is implied, deep, “below”?—and is art, consequently, an interplay of surface and sensation as “this” and depth and thought as “all that”?

— Eli Siegel, from Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?

ALLAN D’ARCANGELO       ROBERT BLACKBURN       SUSAN GARDNER

PERRY HALL     JAMES JUTHSTROM      KEN KIMMELMAN      HAROLD KRISEL

VINCENT LONGO     ROBERT MOTHERWELL     PETER PASSUNTINO

GABOR PETERDI     STEVE POLESKIE     MARCIA RACKOW     MICHELLE RICK  

ROLPH SCARLETT      ELFI SCHUSELKA      JUDD WEISBERG