Everyday Mysteries:
Modern & Contemporary Still Life
Milton Avery, Mark Innerst, William Bailey, Raymond Jonson, David Bates, Walt Kuhn, Debra Bermingham, Robert Kushner, Isabel Bishop, Jacob Lawrence, John Buck, Whitfield Lovell, Francis Criss, Alice Neel, Stuart Davis, Guy Pene du Bois, Charles Demuth, Fairfield Porter, Preston Dickinson, Joseph Stella, David Driskell, George Tooker, Philip Evergood, Helen Miranda Wilson, Janet Fish, Jane Wilson, Mary Frank, Paul Wonner, Arshile Gorky, Jimmy Wright,Robert Gwathmey, Marguerite Zorach, Marsden Hartley, and others
Everyday Mysteries explores the depth and diversity of still life in 20th century American art. Included are works by a number of modern and contemporary artists whose ability to transform arrangements of ordinary objects into beautiful and often profound works of art is nothing short of miraculous.
Most of these works demonstrate the pure joy and intense satisfaction of artmaking at its most fundamental. Included will be both typical examples of the genre along with more unexpected works that expand the definition of what can be considered still life. Alternatively private and intimate, symbolic and expansive, the exhibition will reward close observation and provoke extended contemplation.