Patrick Faulhaber |
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| Danese is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings
by Patrick Faulhaber. The opening reception will be held from 6:00 to 8:00
p.m. Thursday, March 22. Patrick Faulhaber’s paintings, notable for their diminutive scale, capture the spirit and poetry of forsaken places – the ordinary and often abandoned outskirts of his hometown, Dallas. A virtuoso anatomist of light 1, Faulhaber devotes himself to the exploration of its expressive potential, both natural and artificial, from neon red to icy fluorescent blue to blazing sunset orange, controlling his color and brush to represent even the most evanescent effects of light on matter. 2 While his work could be defined as photorealist – so precise and accomplished is his painting technically – these miniature, meticulous renderings of motels, carnivals, bars, burger joints, taco stands and liquor stores are instead psychologically arresting and imbued with emotional nuance. With locales that recall the stories of Raymond Chandler and Eudora Welty, the photographs of William Eggleston, the lonely and humble street scenes and storefronts of Edward Hopper, Faulhaber’s art is both indigenous and singularly of our own time…. The mundane realities of urban and interstate life are not denied but in fact are celebrated as icons of a vibrant, glowing present. His paintings are clear-eyed depictions of a universe of light, and they act as invitations to see the world as something entirely new and other. We come away from Faulhaber’s paintings armed with a sensitivity to a beauty not hidden but simply unrecognized. 3 Patrick Faulhaber was born in Dallas in 1946. He received his BFA from North State Texas University in 1980 and has had numerous solo exhibitions in Texas: the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi (1996); the Amarillo Museum of Art (1997); and The Dallas Museum of Art (1998). Faulhaber lives and works in Dallas. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. For further information, please contact Carol Corey or Kate Pentkowski at 212/223-2227. |
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1 Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Patrick Faulhaber at the Dallas
Museum,” Art in America, March 1999..
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