Artist Justin Waldstein March 3, 2011

Gallery Showing & Reception for Artist Justin Waldstein who presents his collection that draws directly from life and found photos, capturing resonant moments of exhilaration and futility, as well as the beauty and fragility of the human form. His work utilizes explosive color and line to illuminate triumph, glory, energy, mortality and tragedy. The paintings on unstretched canvas are theatrical, reminiscent of discarded posters or torn shreds of sideshow banners. Throughout the collection, there is a hint of the renaissance tapestries of lost empires, and with a sculptural, organic surface, they hang as butchers’ hides displaying wrinkled images on tattooed flesh. Through March 12

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