Opening Reception: Shutdown
Event description
- Arts and entertainment
- Open to the public
“Inspired by Van Dycks’ painting, 'Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo' (1620), these paintings are a result of my response to and reflection on the COVID pandemic. I began working on the first painting for this show during the shutdown of March 2020 and finished the last painting in March of this year, a three-year period that gives the work a distinct beginning, middle, and end. The work is decidedly idiosyncratic for me, especially the figurative components, perhaps because my visceral response to the pandemic was anything but abstract. Yet the work is, I think, still playful and decorative, persistent elements of my work.
Employing iconographic motifs from early Christian illuminations, Greco-Roman Mythology and my own peculiar leitmotifs of flies and frogs, the paintings address my fears, anger and acceptance of the pandemic as it has waxed and waned.”
- Henry Schoebel
Exhibition Dates: April 24–May 4, 2023
Reception: Tuesday, April 25, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.