Herald-Leader reporter Shannon Eblen took in QX.net Nude 2010 and wrote up an insightful review of the exhibit in today’s paper. Just in time to whet your appetite for tonight’s Fifth Third 4th Friday, the first one of the year!!
Here’s an excerpt:
Feliz by Lon Brauer
The figures are not always literally, or revealingly, nude, and the works don’t always resemble the everyday human figure. In Lon Brauer’s Filez, the painting is engulfed with fleshlike forms that suggestmore than portray a nude, providing an overall rich and eye-catching effect.
And what would a nude show be without a tribute to classicism? One room of the show at the LAL @ Loudoun House gallery is largely devoted to traditional figure studies. There are stylistic variations, but the works all show a deliberate hand, from the painterly portraits by James Hajicek to finely tuned drawings by A.R. Howell.
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As [Boris] Zakic writes in his juror’s statement: “Make no snap judgments, nor take it for granted. The nude may have been with us for a long, long time, but it is as ever-changing as it is persistent.”
LAL’s Nude show has been around for many years, but it has again proved its importance by choosing artists who rise to the challenge of redefining and re-creating the human figure.
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