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Jean Swiggett: Strange as it Seems
鈥婼ullivan Goss 鈥� An American Gallery will present its second exhibition from the Estate of San Diego artist JEAN SWIGGETT 鈥�(1910颅-1990)鈥�. Comprising ten works in pencil, colored pencil, and oil made between the early 1950s and the late 1970s, Strange as it Seems looks at how the artist鈥檚 uncanny ability to reproduce reality in drawing and painting was coupled with his eccentric choices in subject matter. The results are simultaneously fantastic and realistic.
His still lifes and figure paintings, some more traditional than others, seem filled with private interests and personal codes, which decades after his death, are now sometimes inscrutable. In an era in which total abstraction dominated in the form of Abstract Expressionism and irony was ascendant in the form of Pop Art, Swiggett was a sincere Realist. Nevertheless, his work prefigured the art world鈥檚 eventual return to the figure, to frank content, and finally, to Realism. Swiggett will show with Susan McDonnell, another fantastic Realist of the next generation.
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鈥婼ullivan Goss 鈥� An American Gallery will present its second exhibition from the Estate of San Diego artist JEAN SWIGGETT 鈥�(1910颅-1990)鈥�. Comprising ten works in pencil, colored pencil, and oil made between the early 1950s and the late 1970s, Strange as it Seems looks at how the artist鈥檚 uncanny ability to reproduce reality in drawing and painting was coupled with his eccentric choices in subject matter. The results are simultaneously fantastic and realistic.
His still lifes and figure paintings, some more traditional than others, seem filled with private interests and personal codes, which decades after his death, are now sometimes inscrutable. In an era in which total abstraction dominated in the form of Abstract Expressionism and irony was ascendant in the form of Pop Art, Swiggett was a sincere Realist. Nevertheless, his work prefigured the art world鈥檚 eventual return to the figure, to frank content, and finally, to Realism. Swiggett will show with Susan McDonnell, another fantastic Realist of the next generation.
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