Thomas Robertello Gallery
27 N Morgan St
812.345.1886
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Jason Robert Bell, The Daphin, 2008, Courtesy Thomas Robertello Gallery
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Jan 9, 2009 – Feb 21, 2009
Wednesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Jason Robert Bell's last exhibition in Chicago featured paintings of a yeti-like alter-ego. Since then, the Brooklyn-based artist's oeuvre has both miniaturized and stretched out cosmically. His new work comprises an enigmatic rogues' gallery of small portraits, which look like religious icons from an arcane universe or little gods trapped in amber. Blending the bounty of his imagination with mythological and religious references, Bell paints strange beings in lush color and encases them in layers of shiny epoxy amid swirling metallic pigments. This is fantastical stuff that might fall flat in lesser hands, but Bell gives it a playful, vibrant sense of life, further enhanced by each painting's enticing gem-like presence. Six impish knee-high sculptures fill out the show.
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