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Tr Colletta: As Time Goes By
TR Colletta is a San Francisco鈥慴ased painter celebrated for his transfixing images of iconic objects of 20th-century American design, which are magnified to a monumental scale, and commandingly realized in oil on linen. Colletta bypasses sentimental reflection. His canvases are time machines delivering a collectively appreciated poetic punch of cultural deja vu.
His gadgets are carefully curated from the pre-electronic age. With nuanced titles Colletta directs us toward a compassionate form of realism such as Disconnected, and Chapter 2: From Black and White to Color, as well as Chapter Nine: This Is Only Temporary.
Colletta's approach is intrinsically subtle. With Punch Clock he presents a physical time-tracking machine. Whereas Profit astutely alludes to manufacturing and consuming freedom from fear.
Like his forbears Morandi and Hopper, he embraces stillness. To draw us in Colletta doesn鈥檛 scream. Instead, he waits. And "when recognition occurs, the result is mutual gratitude.鈥�
TR Colletta is a San Francisco鈥慴ased painter celebrated for his transfixing images of iconic objects of 20th-century American design, which are magnified to a monumental scale, and commandingly realized in oil on linen. Colletta bypasses sentimental reflection. His canvases are time machines delivering a collectively appreciated poetic punch of cultural deja vu.
His gadgets are carefully curated from the pre-electronic age. With nuanced titles Colletta directs us toward a compassionate form of realism such as Disconnected, and Chapter 2: From Black and White to Color, as well as Chapter Nine: This Is Only Temporary.
Colletta's approach is intrinsically subtle. With Punch Clock he presents a physical time-tracking machine. Whereas Profit astutely alludes to manufacturing and consuming freedom from fear.
Like his forbears Morandi and Hopper, he embraces stillness. To draw us in Colletta doesn鈥檛 scream. Instead, he waits. And "when recognition occurs, the result is mutual gratitude.鈥�
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