Christopher Fowler and Meredith Dytch at ARC Gallery
@ ARC Gallery
2156 N Damen Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647
Opening Friday, September 2nd, from 6PM - 9PM
Christopher Fowler is an expressionistic figurative painter hailing from rural southeastern North Carolina. His paintings seek to expose the vulnerability behind human figures and life while exploring the contradicting facades that humans are often forced to retreat behind.
Meredith Dytch is influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of “sabi,” which is about the beauty inherent in the old, the decaying, and the weathered: a wooden barn door from which most of the paint has peeled, or, in her case, a trash-filled alley, or a crumbling concrete viaduct. More than the strict reality of the scene, she is interested in capturing the truth of what it says about the city. This philosophy encourages her to strip her art of sentimentality, “prettiness,” or the “grandeur” of the traditional landscape, while still conveying the unique mood of every scene.
Christopher Fowler
Meredith Dytch
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