Circe, The Enchantment
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The Petley Jones Gallery is proud to present
May 8 - May 22, 2008
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Artist Statement:
"I have always worked to express in a direct, intimate way what it means to be human. Exploring below the surface continues to reveal intensely personal content that invites reciprocal identification by the viewer. The business of scumbling and scraping applications of paint, in order to bring forth an image, can be likened to the process of therapeutically peeling back layers of the psyche and the imagination in order to expose truth. The difference is that the search is actually a physical operation whereby the unknown can be realized. Figurative mysteries initially presented as raw expression, resolve into allegorical paintings that hold their form, line, colour and subject matter with equal importance." "My current series of drawings and paintings, titled MAGIC, are a continued exploration into aspects of transformation, a theme I began working on in 2000 with the Corvus Rex images, and continued to develop through 2005 with the Chrysalid works. Each of these projects revolves around themes of gestation, birth and metamorphosis. The Magic series alludes not only to transformation, but to illusion and the unknown, with subject matter drawn from myth, imagination, the psyche and acts of prestidigitation." - Duncan Regehr
Images from Duncan Regehr's 'Corvus Rex' series and 'Chrysalid' series will also be on display.
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