| For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, "For more info..." |
July Issue 2007
Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Robert Lange
Robert Lange Studios in Charleston, SC, will present The Exhibition, featuring images of massive paintings on medium canvases by Robert Lange, on view from July 11 - 31, 2007.
Lange investigates the dynamic between patron and painting in a series of 17 new works. The show chronicles massive paintings being viewed during a gallery's opening night celebration.
At the modest age of 26, Lange was recently featured in New American Paintings and invited to join the Charleston Fine Art Dealers Association. He is best known for creating bodies of work that investigate the intimate details of the art industry. Last October, Lange's acclaimed series, Behind Their Paintings, portrayed artists and their brushes in a personal yet identifying fashion. In this latest series Lange seeks to continue this investigation by matching patrons with unexpected paintings, the result of which creates alluring narratives.
In There Are No Ordinary Moments, one of the works from the show, Lange has painted an older man in a seersucker outfit looking at a provocative image of a bleeding hand. The hand appears to be twice as tall as the man viewing it.
"As an artist, who is also a gallery owner, I have a behind the scenes vantage point that allows me to see both sides of the art world," says Lange. "I am continually intrigued by preconceived notions about who likes and who buys art."
Lange is continually exploring his roll as both an artist and owner. As a painter he chooses everything from canvas size to composition; as a gallery owner he decides everything from advertising to wall color. Both of these positions influence his work. For example, in one of the paintings for his July show titled, Studied Indifference, Lange has depicted a ripped-jeans-wearing black artist sitting contemplatively in a concrete room. The image appears as a 16 foot wide painting being viewed by a young white male.
"In this series I wanted to evoke through the illusion of a 16 foot painting the humbling feeling that someone would be taken over by while standing there," says Lange. "But most of all I just wanted to make really big paintings that might take a lifetime to create."
For further info check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 843/805-8052 or visit (www.robertlangestudios.com).
Carolina Arts is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing
Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc.
Copyright© 2007 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston
Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts
from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts
Online, Copyright© 2007 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved
by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use
without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina
Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.