February Issue 2000
Hidell Brooks Gallery Features Work by Emily Eveleth
Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is pleased to announce their first solo exhibition for Emily Eveleth. The exhibit will be on view through Feb. 26.
This exhibition of small-scale paintings on panel presents images of the jelly doughnut. Eveleth's primary subject of her portraits are and for many years have been these doughnuts: powdered, cream-filled or honey-glazed. The paintings invite a broad range of art historical associations, although without the expected connections to either Pop or new realism. Rather the works are inspired by Italian and Dutch still life and portraiture; the dramatic Baroque light of Caravaggio and Rembrandt; and formal principles of the High Renaissance. The implied transformation of modeled dough into flesh recall the idealized eroticism of Rubens and Ingres. In all, Eveleth's work conveys a profound regard for the act of painting disciplined by a keenly observant eye. She converts the commonplace into objects of exquisite monumentality.
Eveleth was born in Hartford, CT, in 1960.
She received an undergraduate degree from Smith College and pursued
graduate work at the Massachusetts College of Art. Her work is
included in museum, corporate and private collections. She is
the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship Award
for Painting, and a French Government Grant for the Artist-in-Residency
Program in Rochefort-en-Terre.
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