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"songbird" Painting

Gary Schafter

United States

Painting, Oil on Wood

Size: 42 W x 48 H x 3 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"Songbird" is one painting from my newest body of work called "Semblances". In this age of virtual and augmented reality ,clones and deep fakes, how do we know what is true?What happens when a automaton songbird meets a natural songbird? Does the image of a naturalistic songbird become even more naturalistic in relation to its kitch semblance; or do they reveal that their artifact is equal in its representation?

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Oil on Wood

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42 W x 48 H x 3 D in

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From 1985 to the present, I have been living and working in San Antonio, Texas as a professional artist. During this period of time, I have had 26 solo exhibitions and have participated in many group shows. I have approximately 400 paintings in private and public collections including the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, Texas) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. General artistic concerns and themes: At the core of my methodology is a commitment to the ‘tradition’ of painting, to understanding the historical dialogue between surface and illusion, the pictorial and the plastic, subject and content. For approximately the past 20 years, I have been investigating, in general the issue of mediated representation and, specifically, the problematic relationship between image and its referent. The problem of making art intelligible is fundamentally semantic, not aesthetic. In my work, painting subjects (e.g. still life, landscape, animals, etc.) become convention ready-mades’, a foil, by which to explore the relationship between neutral subject, and active concept. Often with irony and humor, I hope to encourage the viewer to recognize the inherent slippage- the subject depicted as subject, and the painting as an artistic conceit as content. Also what I hope to be obvious in this work is the joy of painting , and the excitement of participation in the creative process.

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