Assistant Professor Matthew Zefeldt and BFA Alum Jonathan DeDecker in group exhibition at Waiting Room
Waiting Room is pleased to announce RetroVertigo, an exhibition which gathers five painters who depict the dizzying effects of simultaneous histories - personal, collective, and art historical - using styles or fashions of past art movements and traditional genres, which collide with current pop and cultural references.
Together this collection of paintings visually concur that Western Art History was neither linear, nor chronological, but rather partial and fractal, like a Tarantino film, capable of bouncing between Post-Impressionism, digital art, Surrealism, turning back to Roman sculpture, shifting to Dutch vanitas, then speeding us up to Post-Modernism and fast-forward to Laura Hoptman’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World; the inbound and outbound visual ‘clicks’ all networked and metaphorically hot within poly-stylized canvases.
Jonathan DeDecker, Cactus Study, 2015
On view through July 11, 2015
More info here.
