Seeking Arrangements
February 5 – March 27 | Opening: February 5, 4-8pm
Daniel Gibson | Patricia Iglesias Peco | Stan Kaplan
Seeking Arrangements brings together the large-scale paintings of three artists, each working with and subverting the floral tableaux as personal subject. Drawing upon the decorative and moralist traditions of Spanish still-life paintings and Dutch pronkstilleven, Gibson, Iglesias Peco, and Kaplan blur the human and the botanical, and dance upon the line between surreal abstraction and representation.
Floral arrangements can represent romance and domesticity, sex and innocence, vitality and decay; the artists in Seeking Arrangements celebrate these dualities through material, light, scale, and emphasis. Daniel Gibson’s oversized folkloric blooms have as much personality as human figures, betraying emotion and even intention. Patricia Iglesias Peco creates corporeal bouquets with brushstrokes that have animalistic pulses; and Stan Kaplan’s luscious grand-scale material explorations sit squarely on the threshold of ornate representation.
Sensuality and stimulation are at the forefront of these anthropomorphic still-lifes, mingling a reverence for natural beauty with the human experience.
