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John Baker & Jameel Radcliffe: Fragmented Experiences
LaiSun Keane Gallery鈥檚 June exhibition brings together emerging artist Jameel Radcliffe with John Baker, whose collage paintings have been shown with acclaim for over 50 years in New York and Boston. Bringing these two artists into conversation reflects the gallery鈥檚 commitment to not only champion young and underrepresented artists but to provoke questions on the emergence or divergence of various themes in contemporary art.
Jameel Radcliffe鈥檚 portraits are both deeply personal and otherworldly, with color, tone and abstracted backgrounds serving to express the bond and connections between the artist and his subjects. Jameel, a mentor and painter at Boston鈥檚 Artists for Humanity, works closely with young people from low income or underrepresented backgrounds, helping them realize their artistic strengths in the same program that introduced him to the arts as a teen.
John Baker, whose artistic career began under the tutelage of Donald Judd, exhibits new collage paintings where abstraction meets figuration, humor meets pathos, and creator meets his creation. Juxtaposed with Radcliffe鈥檚 youthful subjects, Baker鈥檚 works depict an almost world-weariness, while still sparking his underlying thesis, 鈥渢he expression of inner life through imagery so novel that the impact is both intense and inescapable.鈥�
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LaiSun Keane Gallery鈥檚 June exhibition brings together emerging artist Jameel Radcliffe with John Baker, whose collage paintings have been shown with acclaim for over 50 years in New York and Boston. Bringing these two artists into conversation reflects the gallery鈥檚 commitment to not only champion young and underrepresented artists but to provoke questions on the emergence or divergence of various themes in contemporary art.
Jameel Radcliffe鈥檚 portraits are both deeply personal and otherworldly, with color, tone and abstracted backgrounds serving to express the bond and connections between the artist and his subjects. Jameel, a mentor and painter at Boston鈥檚 Artists for Humanity, works closely with young people from low income or underrepresented backgrounds, helping them realize their artistic strengths in the same program that introduced him to the arts as a teen.
John Baker, whose artistic career began under the tutelage of Donald Judd, exhibits new collage paintings where abstraction meets figuration, humor meets pathos, and creator meets his creation. Juxtaposed with Radcliffe鈥檚 youthful subjects, Baker鈥檚 works depict an almost world-weariness, while still sparking his underlying thesis, 鈥渢he expression of inner life through imagery so novel that the impact is both intense and inescapable.鈥�
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