Small Painting

John Phillip Abbott
Samantha Bittman
Tyler Brandon
Michael Dotson
Sarah Faux
Ruth Freeman
Pam Glick
Charlotte Hallberg
Justine Hill
Pamela Jorden
Stephen Maine
Allison Miller
Danielle Mysliwiec
Dana Powell
Jason Stopa
Jennifer Sullivan
Anne Vieux
Wendy White
Brian Willmont

February 10 – March 6, 2017

Dana Powell

Cruisin Cue

Oil on linen

9 x 12 in (22.9 x 30.5 cm)

Available works from the Small Painting Group Show

C O U N T Y is pleased to announce a group show of paintings by John Phillip Abbott, Samantha Bittman, Tyler Brandon, Michael Dotson, Sarah Faux, Ruth Freeman, Pam Glick, Charlotte Hallberg, Justine Hill, Pamela Jorden, Stephen Maine, Allison Miller, Danielle Mysliwiec, Dana Powell, Jason Stopa, Jennifer Sullivan, Anne Vieux, Wendy White, and Brian Willmont. Small Painting is organized by Dalton D. Freed and will run from February 10th – March 6th 2017.

Small paintings have a rich and celebrated past, contextualizing scale and shunning the grandiose visual statement in favor of a more intimate pictorial reading. Historically, artists tend to return to the more ‘personal’ and ‘intimate’ as society becomes more destabilized, diffused, or complex. Small works entice the viewer to engage, approach, and enter into physical proximity, exchanging the sometimes quick-thrill visual experience of the larger canvas for a more nuanced and measured seeing. ‘Acute’ vision replaces ‘peripheral’, and an active engagement with image and object occurs, not just image at a distance.

Logan R. Beitmen