inheritance attachment
geoffrey laurence Local Santa Fe artist Geoffrey Laurence will be showing around 25 paintings, drawings and studies exploring the very personal connection he has with the Holocaust and his feelings about growing up as the child of survivors. The show will be a powerful personal essay on the struggle for an understanding of the atrocities of WWII and its connection with his family history. Laurence has been drawing and painting the figure for more than thirty years. Not very interested in the pop art or conceptual art of his contemporaries, he found himself more engaged with the luminosity of the figures seen in the museums of old masters. He works with a three-layer oil painting process known as indirect painting using glazes and color to highlight his structural forms with the intention to use classicism in a modern way. Geoffrey’s work explores the relationship between the contemporary figure and specific classical paintings. Though his work utilizes the knowledge of 600 years of classical painting there is an intention to maintain a connection between the old masters techniques and its relationship to the representation of the modern figure. He does not consider himself a naturalistic realist but is more concerned with the challenges of creating an emotional narrative that speaks to modern times. Laurence considers himself more of an “emotionalist” or “feelist” rather than the typical classification of a contemporary realist. Laurence’s work has been acquired by public and private collections including the London Borough of Camden in the UK, Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Giorgio Armani, Gene Hackman and NM Department of Cultural Affairs. He has received awards such as the Robert Rauschenberg Award in 2004 and Walter Erlebacher Award in 1995. He has shown his work abroad in Europe, Canada, and across the Untied States from coast to coast and continues to teach painting in academies across the nation and exhibit his work widely.
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gel, 60 x 76 in., o/c
nightgames study, 30 x 22 in., charcoal
nightgames head study, 35 x 22 in., o/c
nightgames study, 22 x 30 in., charcoal
zyklon left study
zyklon left study
zyklon left study
zyklon triptych, 42 x 116 in., o/c
shelter triptych, 38 x 70 in., o/c
8 pastel studies for ‘those the river keeps’, 33 x 23 in., pastel
Tefillin triptych
h, 22 x 78 in., o/c
the passenger study, 30 x 22 in., charcoal
the passenger, 46 x 34 in., o/c
orpheus, 58 x 72 in., o/c
promenade - colour study, 11 x 8.5 in., o/c
those the river keeps study, 64 x 28 in., o/c
those the river keeps (in progress)
pÉter korniss In the upstairs gallery, 40 photographs by Péter Korniss will be on display in the concurrent exhibition Attachment. In his book Attachment 1967-2008, Korniss recorded for more than forty years the disappearing peasant way of life and culture. He focuses on the village folk, industrial workers, children and the elderly of Hungary and Transylvania, and through his eyes, we become fond of these people and their culture. “To preserve a way of life that will soon disappear! As a photographer I couldn’t have found a better task for myself. The gift of photography is that we can preserve even the most ephemeral subject: man—in the world he created and in which he lives.” Beginning in 1967, Korniss noted that “in the dim light of a ‘dance house’ in Szek, it was as if nothing had changed here in this tiny Transylvanian village for a hundred years.” Yet, by the beginning of the 1990s, “... after the political landslide in East Europe, the life of the old, familiar villages began to change before my eyes. The changes came swiftly and were eye-catching. The symbols of distant worlds arrived in peasant homes.” Péter Korniss worked for the women’s weekly Nok Lapja from 1961 until 1991 and was picture editor for the theatrical monthly Szinház between 1991 and 1999. A freelance photographer since 1999, Korniss’ photographs have been seen in international magazines including National Geographic, Geo Magazine, Fortune, Time, and Forbes. Exhibitions of his work have been held in galleries and museums in sixteen countries. In 2004 Péter Korniss was awarded the Pulitzer Memorial Prize. In 1999 he was awarded the prestigious Kossuth Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Hungarian government.
boy busÓ, 1969
couple in love, 1970
weary shepherd, 1971
girl on roller skates at home, 2008
girl wearing a headscarf, 1975
mother and babe in arms, 1973
in the dance house, 1967
mourning, 1970
disabled war veteran, 1976
wedding ceremony, 1970
man in his home decorated with posters, 1997
the village museum, 2007
elderly woman in her kitchen, 2008
farmer in his stable, 1998
husband, wife and their son in the front room, 1997
parade of nativity players, 1971
shepherd boy, 1975
village schoolchildren, 1973
at the grave, 1973
at the mill, 1973
father and daughter, 1997
girl turning the hay, 1974
going home with a loaf, 1974
musician in his home, 1997
while hoeing, 1975
woman carrying hay, 1977
young couple in the dancehouse, 1992
courtship, 1973
easter monday, 1972
father and son with a tree trunk, 1993
herdsman driving his cattle at dawn, 1974
house of the deceased, 1973
woman in the pen, 1992
woman in a hurry, 1971
In the spinning room, 1992
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