Dates:
October 23, 2010 - March 6, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, October 22, 2010
Location:
Morris Gallery, Historic Landmark Building
Description:
Continuing the Morris Gallery series of exhibitions by emerging artists, PAFA is proud to present recent paintings by Tom LaDuke. A Los Angeles based artist who has been receiving a lot of attention for the rigorous craft and conceptual sophistication of his work, like many California artists LaDuke explores the edges of vision in order to unravel the vicissitudes of perception.
Centered around Sharp, Distance (2010), a recent addition to PAFA’s collection, run generator is the first museum exhibition to bring together a selection of LaDuke’s recent paintings. Offering audiences the opportunity to explore the complexity of this artist’s imagination, the show revolves around two bodies of work. The earlier group of paintings, derived from photographs that conjoin film imagery and studio reflections, are painted in acrylic with an airbrush technique that imbues them with a ghost-like quality. The second group consists of even more recent works that expand this process through the addition of overpainted tonal fragments that are drawn from old master paintings and rendered in gesturally impastoed oil paint.
Born in Holyoke Massachusetts, LaDuke received a BFA in 1991 from California State University, Fullerton, and an MFA in 1994 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in many exhibitions and his work is held in a number of museum collections, including the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. LaDuke lives and works in Los Angeles and teaches at Art Center College of Design
in Pasadena.
Curator:
Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art
Sponsors:
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Leading support is provided by the William Penn Foundation.
