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Art

Walton Ford

When

May 8, 2008 – July 3, 2008

Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)

Where

Paul Kasmin Gallery

293 10th Ave

212.563.4474

Price

Free

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Paul Kasmin Gallery says…

Walton Ford's watercolors mimic the composition and style of history painting, and the confusing overlap of myth that accompanies it. In Dying Words, Ford plays on the grand European format by replacing the subjects of Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe with parakeets. Ford's style of layered watercolor and gouache is a direct homage to America's foremost painter/ornithologist, John James Audubon, though his subject matter — less serene and scientific — is "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Ford's large-paneled paintings revel both in the brutality of nature and the brutality of man toward nature. For his exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery, expect a juiced Animalia, stampeding straight at your Jeep.