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Marty Schnapf: Loves and Lovers

Past exhibition
June 15 - August 17, 2019
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Marty Schnapf: Loves and Lovers

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Loves and Lovers, a solo exhibition of figurative charcoal drawings by Los Angeles multidisciplinary artist Marty Schnapf. This is Schnapf’s first solo show at the gallery. 

 

Marty Schnapf grew up in a farmhouse in Newburgh, Indiana, surrounded by fields, and began his art making outdoors, often using sticks, coals and rocks as markers. When he was seven years old, his house burned down. The charred wood that was left behind held a new resonance for him. It became a kind of beautiful and terrible marker of this complex transition.  As an artist confronted by a volatile world, a global house in conflict, he “wanted to find the courage to make work about love. I bought 30 boxes of charcoals and 6 rolls of paper and began.” These vigorous and expressive drawings are drawing-as-performance, songs of living and dying. The figures are both intertwined and solitary, and seem barely contained, pushing against the edges of each composition. There is private space and hidden identity. His loves and loversare nearly life-sized; and we, the viewer, stand as voyeur and witness to the emotional drama that unfolds before us.

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Works
  • Marty Schnapf, Hairpin turn, 2019
    Marty Schnapf, Hairpin turn, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf, Now into now and then now and now, 2019
    Marty Schnapf, Now into now and then now and now, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf Perhaps you think you might fall away, 2019
    Marty Schnapf
    Perhaps you think you might fall away, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf Seven movements, 2019
    Marty Schnapf
    Seven movements, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf, She imagined it fully, 2019
    Marty Schnapf, She imagined it fully, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf, Sometimes a sapphire, 2019
    Marty Schnapf, Sometimes a sapphire, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf, Stars so bright, 2019
    Marty Schnapf, Stars so bright, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf, The flow of water returns seaward from the shore, 2019
    Marty Schnapf, The flow of water returns seaward from the shore, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf Thin around the high points, wet from the morning rain, 2019
    Marty Schnapf
    Thin around the high points, wet from the morning rain, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf Waiting for the next slip, 2019
    Marty Schnapf
    Waiting for the next slip, 2019
  • Marty Schnapf You have the chance to be more beautiful than you have ever been, 2019
    Marty Schnapf
    You have the chance to be more beautiful than you have ever been, 2019
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  • Riot Material: Michael Ajerman’s Possessions And Marty Schnapf’s Loves and Lovers

    Genie Davis, June 30, 2019

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