Monday, June 20, 2016

19th and 20th Century Artist Interiors: Painted Documents

2D to 3D: Artist Room Studies by Jennifer Hawkins Hock are gimlet-eyed views of 19th and 20th century interiors painted by artists.  2D to 3D: Artist Room Studies presents assemblages of 15 paintings featuring as their subject artists' portraits of their own studios or domestic interiors.  Group One includes three-dimensional assemblage studies of room portraits by Henri Matisse, Gwen John, Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Rene Magritte, Raoul Dufy, Gustave Caillebotte, Frederick Childe Hassam, Vincent van Gogh, and Vilhelm Hammershoi.  Group Two of 2D to 3D: Artist Room Studies is currently in progress and highlights room portraits by Frederic Bazille, Odilon Redon, Vanessa Bell, and the artist's own studio.  Additional rooms by artists featured in Group One will appear as well.