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28 mai 2007

Dennis McNulty chez Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art presents new work by Dennis McNulty, a San Francisco-based artist whose work explores his Southern roots, on view June 7-July 13, 2007.
McNulty comes from the barrier islands that hug the Atlantic shore, an area marked by its creole heritage. He describes these islands as “dominated by iconic Southern imagery and ideologies,” and his installations recreate that atmosphere.
McNulty’s paintings draw upon a deep reservoir of Southern vernacular visual culture, one that has proved fertile in American art. Walker Evans and William Eggleston both mapped the region’s distinctive iconography, and traces of that vocabulary surface in Jasper Johns’s paintings. By choosing to work with a distinctively Southern iconography, McNulty continues this lineage in American art. His work can be difficult and haunting, fraught with history, but it also contains wit and humor.  Lire la suite
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