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Emma Webster: Arcadia

Past exhibition
2019年2月9日 - 3月23日
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介绍
Emma Webster: Arcadia
Arcadia is a solo exhibition of new paintings by British-American artist, Emma Webster.  The artist will present fifteen oil paintings completed during a recent residency at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen.  For her first solo show with the gallery, Webster transforms idyllic landscapes into theatrical still lifes.
 
Emma Webster first constructs intricate dioramas of collaged samples from historic paintings (from Bosch to Bierstadt). These maquettes evoke set design with backdrops staged and lit for each work. Scale shifts conflate the panoramic with the miniature, and the dioramas are a pastiche of idylls.  In these operatic and thrilling paintings, nature is fraught with artifice.  The animals are clay figurines. The foliage is plastic. Lighting comes from a flashlight. The entire view is straightforward, giving a clear vantage point. The artist’s hand is evident, fabricating an idealized scene that speaks to her desire to build one’s own world: an Arcadia.
 
The show’s title Arcadia alludes to recycled and reassembled notions of nature and art passed down from antiquity. These fake bucolics, where each tree is as much a reflection of its maker’s hands as it is a symbol, point to the ways humanity manipulates nature, seeing nature only as it relates to mankind itself. As in garden design, man contrives his own aesthetic of “natural” beauty despite the existence of another untamed and unpredictable reality. Considering climate change and deforestation, Emma Webster’s landscape as still life rings a warning.
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报道
  • Emma Webster, Park Service, 2018

    Art and Cake: Emma Webster: Arcadia

    Jody Zellen, 2019年3月23日
  • Emma Webster, No Man’s Land, 2018

    Artillery Magazine: Emma Webster

    Cooper Johnson, 2019年3月11日
  • Emma Webster, Et in Arcadia ego, 2018

    AEQAI: Emma Webster: Arcadia

    Annabel Osberg, 2019年3月3日
  • Emma Webster, Forest Vigil, 2018

    ARTFORUM Critic's Pick: Emma Webster: Arcadia

    Tyler Malone, 2019年3月2日
  • Emma Webster, Bucolic, 2018

    Los Angeles Times Review: Emma Webster’s landscapes take you into a sublime, magical world

    David Pagel, 2019年2月23日
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