Frank Trankina: Gallery of Galleries
@ NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL
Opening Friday, November 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, December 1st
FRANK TRANKINA
GALLERY OF GALLERIES
Oct. 30 – Dec. 1
Reception: 6:00-9:00 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3rd
Artist Talk: 4:10 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16th
Gallery of Galleries is a solo exhibition of Frank Trankina’s oil paintings. In this new series, action figures, statuaries, and dolls become viewers of abstract and figurative paintings that tower over the toys in the picture plane, and occupy a variety of gallery spaces. Paintings of salon-style hung galleries abound in art history, from the time that the French Royal Academy began hangings recent graduates work, as dense as the walls would allow. Paintings like Gallery of the Louvre, referenced in Trankina’s work Gallery of Gallery Paintings pull the viewer into a space they can’t inhabit, but are drawn into with lush details. These exhibition halls are a layer removed and shifted in context with their mass produced miniature figures as consumers. What is on display is not only the work on the walls but the viewers themselves. The playful figures in many of these works are a stand in for us as gallery visitors.
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