Jim Yale: FRAGMENTS OF STILLNESS
@ T. Mari Gallery
1023 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 21st, from 5PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, January 19th
FRAGMENTS OF STILLNESS
Artwork by Jim Yale, Curated by Pattie Horwitz
“Jim Yale’s artistry is simple and honest. Each piece is painted in real time, revealing glimpses of his subjects as they exist in their private spaces—pensive and enveloped by the quiet glow of solitude. He paints his subjects as they are—pensive, alone, caught in their own quiet moments. Yale is known for his mastery of gouache on paper and oil on canvas. His brush strokes are loose but true, his colors bold but never loud. He leaves out the extra details, capturing only what matters.’
Each figure is in a place that feels like home. A private place. You can’t always see their faces, but you feel the weight of their thoughts in the tilt of a head or the curve of a shoulder. Yale’s paintings hold his subjects in that quiet, in-between moment, where they’re left to themselves, unguarded and real.
These are glimpses, nothing more. Fragments of solitude and silence. We see them as they are—unpolished, unsure, utterly human. And perhaps, in those small, still moments, we see a part of ourselves, too.”
– Pattie Horwitz, Curator
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