John Sonsini - Miles McEnery Gallery Art and 50 similar items

Birkitts Books presents ... John Sonsini - Miles McEnery Gallery ISBN: 1949327531 Author: David Pagel Publisher: Miles McEnery Release Date: 2020-12-31 Seller Category: Art Exhibition Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Good Sku: 231124060 Notes: Minor shelf wear, corners are bumped, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. NEW YORK, NEW YORK ? MILES McENERY GALLERY is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by John Sonsini. The artist?s third solo exhibition at the gallery will open on 9 December at 511 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 29 January 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by David Pagel.Empathy is Sonsini?s great subject. The bedrock of everything he does as an painter resides in his exploration of how an individual?s emotional involvement with another person shapes both perception and knowledge, often transforming one?s relationship to everything ? including one?s self. His portraits of Gabriel, his partner of twenty five years, capture essential aspects of individuality while simultaneously revealing essential things about the world in which we live. Sonsini is most concerned with putting the psychological and emotional dynamic between himself and his sitters at the forefront. Sonsini?s gestural oil paintings are composed of single and double figures painted against richly colored grounds of pale blues, yellows, and pinks. In addition to his intimate portraits of Gabriel, he introduces the subject of street performers, known as malabaristas, in this recent body of paintings. The interaction between artist and sitter is the overall theme of Sonsini?s work and the current paintings invite the viewer to contemplate and participate in that action.The result of that back-and-forth, between painter and sitter, is a painting whose subject is not just the person depicted, but the dynamic interaction that takes place as Sonsini goes outside of himself to convey in paint the otherness that attracted him in the first place. Pagel writes, ?That interaction cannot be conveyed abstractly or symbolically; knowing about it is far different from experiencing it for oneself. And that?s what Sonsini?s portraits do for viewers: They translate his desire-driven engagements with others into a form that invites us to experience similar identity-confounding engagements?imaginatively and contemplatively, of course, but they are no less resonant for their introspective, soul-searching nature.? Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!