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David Bates: Southern Coast
Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of twenty new paintings by American artist, David Bates. Southern Coast marks David鈥檚 twelfth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Steeped in experience and tempered by personal memory, the twenty paintings included in this exhibition celebrate Bates鈥� penchant for capturing the raw emotional immediacy of his subject, be it a place, a person, or an object. In taking scope of Bates鈥檚 work, one must not overlook the universality of his aesthetic language. His paintings enrapture the viewer, so carefully and intuitively does he characterize his subject. Bates paints not to reproduce an exact likeness of a scene, but rather to give voice to his reaction to what he saw or how it made him feel. Each painting bursts with subjective creativity.
Throughout his artistic career, spanning more than forty years, Bates has revisited the most classical forms of painting鈥攕till life, landscape, and portraiture鈥攅ach firmly rooted in biographical references most often from his experiences hunting and fishing in East Texas and along the Gulf Coast. The artist excels at profoundly defining the geographical specificity of each location he depicts. For Bates, all aspects of a painting鈥攖he people, the landscape, the animals, even the weather鈥攁re all one big portrait.
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Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of twenty new paintings by American artist, David Bates. Southern Coast marks David鈥檚 twelfth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Steeped in experience and tempered by personal memory, the twenty paintings included in this exhibition celebrate Bates鈥� penchant for capturing the raw emotional immediacy of his subject, be it a place, a person, or an object. In taking scope of Bates鈥檚 work, one must not overlook the universality of his aesthetic language. His paintings enrapture the viewer, so carefully and intuitively does he characterize his subject. Bates paints not to reproduce an exact likeness of a scene, but rather to give voice to his reaction to what he saw or how it made him feel. Each painting bursts with subjective creativity.
Throughout his artistic career, spanning more than forty years, Bates has revisited the most classical forms of painting鈥攕till life, landscape, and portraiture鈥攅ach firmly rooted in biographical references most often from his experiences hunting and fishing in East Texas and along the Gulf Coast. The artist excels at profoundly defining the geographical specificity of each location he depicts. For Bates, all aspects of a painting鈥攖he people, the landscape, the animals, even the weather鈥攁re all one big portrait.
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