Art News:
John McAllister
starry sudden without blares
September 15 - October 20, 2012
Opening reception, Saturday, September 15, 6 - 8 pm
Shane Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce John McAllister’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in Chicago.
McAllister will present a suite of new paintings that continues his interest in paintings as pictures and objects. All of the paintings function on a meta level as they consistently represent paintings within domestic interior spaces consequently drawing attention to an awareness of painting as an act of representation. Idealized landscapes and still lifes are situated within patterned grounds that reinforce the entire painting as a cultural construction. Patterning contains and frames the interior elements which removes them from the world much like the interiors of Edouard Vuillard and the Nabis who aestheticized social relations within comfortable Parisian domestic spaces in the late 19th century.
McAllister lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2007. He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions at Carl Freedman Gallery, London and with Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Rubell Family Collection, Miami and at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, amongst others.
Please contact Eric Ruschman at eric@shanecampbellgallery.com for further information.
