The Huff Gallery at Spalding University Presents Bruce Linn “Aesthetic Refugeesâ€
The Huff Gallery at Spalding University Presents Bruce Linn “Aesthetic Refugees” May 23 – June 27, 2010.
Images of ships and suitcases containing treasured cultural materials feature prominently in Bruce Linn’s latest paintings. They are metaphors for how we human beings use material culture both personally (the suitcases) and collectively (the ships) as lasting reminders of ourselves, and our values and aspirations.
Linn liked a friend’s potent, and hyperbolic, question, as he assessed a work of art: When all of this goes up in flames, will we really make room for this (painting, sculpture, film, etc.) on the boat? Inspired by the metaphor at the core of his question, by Federico Fellini’s film “And the Ship Sails On,” haunted by the images of Hurricane Katrina, and the artist Ron B. Kitaj’s (American, 1932-2007) comparison of painting to “a refugee’s suitcase,” Linn began this series of paintings exploring the idea that beauty is a form of refuge, escape, self restoration and regeneration.
Image: Ark, 2009, Bruce Linn, oil and china marker on canvas, 48 x 72 in. For more information on Bruce Linn, go to: http://www.brucelinn.org
The Huff Gallery is free and open to the public
The Huff Gallery is located in the Spalding Library, 853 Library Lane, between Fourth and Third Streets and Breckenridge and York Streets. The gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. For information about the gallery contact Joyce Ogden at (502) 585-9911 ext.2360 or e-mail jogden@spalding.edu.
