Sam Wade Exhibition Podcast – Eva Breuer Art Dealer
October 17 – 23, 2009
Several works seek to recreate fleeting moments on station platforms or city parks, while broader emotive and psychological qualities are sought through the careful compositional arrangement of these recreations. Figures are carefully placed. A receding procession of umbrellas is used to carry the eye along a station platform in much the same way as a colony of pesky ibis across a field in Hyde Park. The horizontal lines of a station platform offer a subtle time-line metaphor for the transitory figures that appear along its breadth.
By portraying these everyday visions using a traditional art training, the artist constructs a dialogue between commonplace existence and artistry, where subtle ironies along with a reverence for the art of the past are explored. The iconic figures of mother and child or a figure exuding pre-Raphaelite beauty may appear on a station platform, for instance. Special care in the portrayal of atmosphere and time of day acknowledges the legacy of the impressionts, while the introspective possibilities offered by the tradition of portraiture are explored.
The artist seeks to draw on these lessons from the past in order to create a dynamic commentary on contemporary urban life.
Duration : 0:2:27
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