Santa Fe Art Exhibit Features Mellencamp Painting
Face to Face
Gerald Peters Gallery March 18 – April 30, 2011
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe is pleased to announce Face to Face, opening on
March 18th and running through April 30th . The exhibition will feature over
twenty nationally and internationally known artists, the exhibit focuses on the
overt and subconscious associations that are created between the artists and
their subjects but, perhaps even more importantly, the manner in which these
same works themselves spur individual dialogues with the viewer.
This underscores the idea that the impact drawn from the creative act itself is
not accomplished by the artist alone but instead is a product of the
collaborative nature the viewer plays as witness to the moment. As Marcel
Duchamp observed, “the spectator brings the work in contact with the external
world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his
contribution to the creative act.” As a result, the works become a mirror
reflecting the relationship between the viewer, the artist, and the subject,
each responding to the moment through their own desires, reveries, or anxieties.
Artists featured in the exhibition include Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, John
Mellencamp, David Hockney, Kristina Gale, Brenda Zlamany, Eric Ernst, David
Slater, David Gamble, Linda Alpern, Billy Sullivan, Nan Goldin, Bo Bartlett,
Julie Speed, Victoria Carlson, Ali Silverstein, Christopher Benson, Paton Miller
and others.