Three New Works Added for Live ARC Salon
August 14, 2015
| Three new works have been added to the list of paintings to be exhibited in the traveling exhibition for the 2014/2015 ARC Salon. Today we are adding the Best Trompe L'oeil Runner Up, Dragon Fruit, by Noah Layne, and two Honorable Mentions, one from the figurative category, The Purity of Imagination and Color, by Leslie Adams, and one from the animal category, Morning Rounds, by Gayla Salvati. |  |
| The Purity of Imagination and Color is a work from the solo exhibition, Leslie Adams, Drawn from Life at the Toledo Museum of Art, which coincided with the exhibition, Manet, Portraying Life. This self-portrait, in addition to being her homage to Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, presents a treasured childhood memory. Here we encounter the unexpected juxtaposition of a young girl in an adult universe. The viewer is transported into a kaleidoscopic crayola-colored world of a 1970's American bar. Sneaking olives from her father's martini, she sits at the bar intently copying provocative Pop art images from cocktail napkins, as though they are Old Master drawings. She pauses and gazes into the mirror, imagining. At that moment, she reminds us, "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" - Shakespeare To view newly added write-ups on these works, please visit the page we've created for the exhibition by clicking here. | |