(Image from his website, check it)
Saw Jonathon Lux's show down at the Crisp Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College last week (which was a nice space, bee tee dubs). His narratives, they make me curious. And frisky. Curiousky. Very much so painted in 'the Grand manner'.. made me think of 'The Death of General Wolfe', a la Benjamin West:
Heroicized? Romanticized? Sexualized?
He had multiple canvasses framed together presented as a single piece. I enjoyed this, the implied mobility, interchangeable plotline, possible inconsistencies with perspective, yet feel some worked far better aesthetically than others. It was jarring at times. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for juxtaposition, but some felt haphazard. The strongest pieces had a flow, a marriage of content and composition.
Also, his use of children - very interesting. They weren't merely children, I felt, but rather symbols - of the impish nature that is innate to us all? Of the potential for malevolence as well as lighthearted play?
His brushwork was gooorrrrgeous. Heavy and violent, but then nice and washy. Hm. I picked up the little pamphlet but didn't read it, I was too overpowered by the work itself. So, no insight onto what he has to say about his own work, just my thoughts on the work itself.
