Saturday, September 22nd from 6-10pm @ Art
Room
STILL LIVES
The inspiration for curating Still Lives was driven by the desire to explore what our personal effects and everyday scraps of life ultimately reveal about each of us and our deeper interior life.
While the social realm of the home always seems out in the open, looking at these images one feels as though we are peeping into the private contents of cabinets while on a trip to the powder room. In the artist’s Self Portrait here, life-saving prescription bottles share a shelf with common dishes.
STILL LIVES
The inspiration for curating Still Lives was driven by the desire to explore what our personal effects and everyday scraps of life ultimately reveal about each of us and our deeper interior life.
While the social realm of the home always seems out in the open, looking at these images one feels as though we are peeping into the private contents of cabinets while on a trip to the powder room. In the artist’s Self Portrait here, life-saving prescription bottles share a shelf with common dishes.
Such work as Dirty Dishes, Laundry and
Dry-cleaning reveal in their titles alone those freeze-frames of repetition and
tedium that both connect and often separate us from one another.
Nearly all of Bourgeau’s work capture our shared yet isolated moments, whether as a solitary figure sitting, resting on the side of a bed or taking a calm yet haunting repose in a warm bath.
What might simply suggest a lone man leaning against a table in his lover’s kitchen quickly becomes super-charged with longing and frustration by its bold cropping and use of black and white strokes and angular lines.
In the end, the exhibit is about each of our lives standing still when there is nothing more to be said.
- Jessica Hopkins is the director of Art Room.
And more STILL LIVES currently showing at Level Gallery @ 21000 West 10 Mile Rd. Southfield, Michigan 48075 - through October 10th.
Nearly all of Bourgeau’s work capture our shared yet isolated moments, whether as a solitary figure sitting, resting on the side of a bed or taking a calm yet haunting repose in a warm bath.
What might simply suggest a lone man leaning against a table in his lover’s kitchen quickly becomes super-charged with longing and frustration by its bold cropping and use of black and white strokes and angular lines.
In the end, the exhibit is about each of our lives standing still when there is nothing more to be said.
- Jessica Hopkins is the director of Art Room.
Art Room is located at 7 North
Saginaw Street, Pontiac, Michigan 48342 - both floors of art will be on
view.
email: detroitmona@aol.com telephone:
248.210.7560 website: www.jefbourgeau.com
And more STILL LIVES currently showing at Level Gallery @ 21000 West 10 Mile Rd. Southfield, Michigan 48075 - through October 10th.