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Exhibition "Figuring Out Watercolor" Curated by Anne Ellegood, Peter Norton Collection, Los Angeles and New York |
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artnet continues its series of Virtual Exhibitions with "Figuring Out Watercolor" curated by Anne Ellegood from the Peter Norton Collection. Inspired by the recent increase in works made with watercolors, the exhibition focuses on how artists are using the medium of watercolor to depict the figure within an impressive versatility of style and subject matter. As a medium, watercolor has generally been relegated to a lower status within the hierarchies that oftentimes still exist in the minds of historians, critics, and viewers alike. Works on paper rendered in watercolor have historically been overshadowed by the more consistently sanctioned and physically substantial oil painting and sculpture. Yet, watercolor has been an important medium for artists for decades and is experiencing a notable resurgence in recent contemporary art practice. Whereas some of the more better-known artists included in this Virtual Exhibition, such as Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, David Hockney, and Alice Neel, have created watercolors within a practice equally devoted to other media (all of them, for example, paint with oils or acrylics on canvas), several of the emerging artists viewed here embrace watercolor (or gouache) as their primary medium, including Delia Brown, Amy Cutler, Marcel Dzama, Till Freiwald, and Kim McCarty. continues on page 2 
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 Unpublished playing card illustration: Woman in striped one-piece bathing suit and broad-brimmed sunhat Alberto Vargas Illustration House |
 The Swearing in No. 1 Jacob Lawrence DC Moore Gallery |
 The Good Fairy Takes a Break, 2004 John Bankston Jack Shainman Gallery |
 Untitled Kojo Griffin Miller Block Gallery |
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 Untitled Eric Fischl Baldwin Gallery |
 Ship Wreck Don Doe Oliver Kamm / 5BE Gallery |
 Untitled Marcel Dzama Timothy Taylor Gallery |
 ITHB: Guerilla Lounging no. 21, 2003 Delia Brown D'Amelio Terras |
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 Cacciucco Cutie – The lost paintings of 1965, No. 8 Mel Ramos Thomas Levy Galerie |
 Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace David Hockney Richard Gray Gallery |
 At Battle of Cains Fair, Face Death by Stray Shells Henry Darger Galerie St. Etienne |
 Mikey Cherry Hood Diane Farris Gallery |
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