SEEN and FORGOTTEN
New Paintings by San Diego artist Stephen P. Curry
October 21 – November 22
Opening Reception for the Artist on Saturday, Oct. 21st at 5-8pm
R.B. Stevenson Gallery • 7661 Girard Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
“Still life painting is a questioning of beauty in light of our immediate reality. These paintings begin with imagery of current event depictions of destruction, violence, and death in the initial underpainting process as a way to influence, contradict and subvert the act of observation and the painting process as well as the final opposing representation of the beauty of nature. These contradictory images exist simultaneously to engage in a conversation in the seen and the unseen or forgotten. At the same time challenging, yet playful compositional choices are meant to break with traditional still life and illusionistic representational effects are intentionally brought up short by the physical nature of the paint itself. Drips and splatters, dabs and smears, paint does what paint does.” – Stephen P. Curry
