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Christopher Ulivo: Ancient Rome Today!
Track 16 Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Ventura-based artist Chris Ulivo, Ancient Rome Today! The work marks the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery.
In an era heavily influenced by digital image-making tools, Chris Ulivo spent the past fifteen years working with the archaic medium of egg tempera and creating images solely from memory and imagination. Working completely 鈥渇rom his head鈥� allows a genuine and direct relationship between his capacity for visualization and depiction. Built of thousands of tiny strokes, the slow pace of tempera encourages the gradual realization of each scene. From this simple combination comes vibrant and unruly scenes.
The works in the exhibition are part of an ongoing series, Forces of Destiny, which is a high-concept farce with the Ulivo himself figuring into most of the images. The artist travels back in time to ancient Rome in a foolish attempt to rewrite history, visit ancient relatives and make a name for himself.
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Track 16 Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Ventura-based artist Chris Ulivo, Ancient Rome Today! The work marks the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery.
In an era heavily influenced by digital image-making tools, Chris Ulivo spent the past fifteen years working with the archaic medium of egg tempera and creating images solely from memory and imagination. Working completely 鈥渇rom his head鈥� allows a genuine and direct relationship between his capacity for visualization and depiction. Built of thousands of tiny strokes, the slow pace of tempera encourages the gradual realization of each scene. From this simple combination comes vibrant and unruly scenes.
The works in the exhibition are part of an ongoing series, Forces of Destiny, which is a high-concept farce with the Ulivo himself figuring into most of the images. The artist travels back in time to ancient Rome in a foolish attempt to rewrite history, visit ancient relatives and make a name for himself.
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