Mark Innerst /
"'Landscape has a tendency to be heroic and I suppose there is a streak of grandeur in my work, but I think it's about the eternal more than the heroic,' says New York painter Mark Innerst, whose first Los Angeles exhibition opens Jan. 26 at the Michael Kohn Gallery in Santa Moni...
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New York : Santa Monica :
Curt Marcus Gallery ; Michael Kohn Gallery,
1990.
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | "'Landscape has a tendency to be heroic and I suppose there is a streak of grandeur in my work, but I think it's about the eternal more than the heroic,' says New York painter Mark Innerst, whose first Los Angeles exhibition opens Jan. 26 at the Michael Kohn Gallery in Santa Monica. "There's a streak of morbidity to the work as well," he adds, "because when you talk about something eternal, you're talking about something dead."Although he is recognized as one of the leaders of a newly coalescing school of New York landscape painters, Innerst dismisses the label because his subjects aren't limited to that genre. The 33-year-old artist is a master at creating hauntingly lovely images that invoke a complex emotional response.Interweaving elements of the sublime and the macabre, his work is freighted with an elegiac quality and speaks of beautiful things irretrievably lost and decaying. And, one of the gravest losses, his pictures suggest, is the experience of quiet introspection and solitude that's becoming increasingly difficult to achieve in the chaotic jangle of the late 20th Century." ~ Article in the LA Times written by Kristine McKenna published on January 13, 1991 (see link). |
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| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition held at the Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, October 1990 and at the Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, January 1991. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |