Current Exhibition

August 6 - 30th, 2009

DOUBLE VISION: PABLO D'ANTONI AND DOUG PARRY

Preview Reception: Wednesday, August 5; 2009

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Marni Muir Gallery is proud to present the paintings of Pablo D’Antoni and Doug Parry in a pairing of narrations: miniature vignettes and psychological expressions.

With the only help of a few extremely thin Russian brushes, the painter Pablo D'Antoni registers his narrative imagery in miniature. Pablo's miniatures draw the viewer into an intimate experience about art. He pays homage to his reverence to the
old masters while at the same time, he engages the viewer with other objects, spaces, and an elapsing of time. The work of D'Antoni proposes the integration of traditional painting and its icons into a landscape set in the present.


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Doug Parry paints about the violent, terrible and disturbingly indelible moments in life. The results are psychological images of people struggling, realizing and surviving. He began by developing nine archetypal characters to represent different persons or combinations of persons: a father and a (transvestite) mother (both dressed as quasi-familiar clowns); a wise, old man; a muse; a male antagonist; two children (a girl representing truth; and a boy representing innocence); a jaded woman; and a male protagonist as a tragic hero. Set like a stage in mid to large scale paintings, these narratives hold up to the
“largeness “ of narrative concept presented in D’Antoni’s

 

 


Images above:

Above right: Pablo D'Antoni, Tio Napi, Oil on wood, 13.5 x 18 inches

Above left : Doug Parry, Untitled No. 4, Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches

 


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