Come A Little Closer
January 12 – February 11, 2023
Come A Little Closer
We all love big; we love the drama of scale. But intimacy has its own magic, connecting us to the size of books, of faces, of mirrors, of things glimpsed in private, seen by one person at a time. Or not seen in full until the curious viewer steps closer.
A large exhibition of small paintings, Come A Little Closer, features the work of 70 plus artists.
The exhibition opens January 12 and continues through February 11, 2023.
“I remember once walking with Jacob Lawrence into his major Phillips Collection exhibition in Washington. On the entrance wall, the curators had made a HUGE mural-sized photo blow-up of one of the works from his Migration Series. It looked stunning. But then as we walked through the show, we came to the same work. Relatively tiny, not much bigger than Jacob’s two hands. It was even more powerful, more mesmerizing, more inviting. It did not need to be wall sized to hold the wall, and that is something that Jake had known.”
Bridget Moore’s memory of a small, powerful Jacob Lawrence painting was the spark for Come a Little Closer, which gathers an unruly sampling of ostensibly “little” works with major impact. We all love big; we love the drama of scale. But intimacy has its own magic, connecting us to the size of books, of faces, of mirrors, of things glimpsed in private, seen by one person at a time. Or not seen in full until the curious viewer steps closer.
The works in this exhibition measure from tiny to 15”. The artists that created them have varied motivations, but all the works are meant to be the size they are; in other words none are preparatory studies. Some play with ideas of “real scale,” some counter our expectations of detail, others luxuriate in the compression of information.
Downloads
Lois Dodd
Barn Interior, 1986
Oil on masonite
12 x 12 inches
Garry Nichols
Butterfly, 2020
Oil on wood
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Shawn Thornton
Black Pyramid Meditation, 2008
Oil on panel
11 x 11 inches
Leslie Wayne
One Big Love #52, 2010
Oil on panel
10 x 12 x 2 1/2 inches
Greg Goldberg
Quartet #1, 2003
Golden liquid acrylic on wood panel
12 x 12 inches
Scott Grodesky
Eye, 2022
Acrylic and color pencil on panel
7 3/4 x 12 inches
Jane South
Ménerbes, 2022
Linen, acrylic, and thread
13 x 14 inches
Keisha Prioleau-Martin
Looking for Glasses at Sea, 2022
Acrylic on linen
14 x 11 x 1 1/2 inches
Brenda Goodman
Tangle, 2021
Oil and mixed media on wood
12 x 9 inches
Clintel Steed
World Cup 22 #2, 2022
Oil on canvas
16 x 16 inches
Melissa Meyer
Capital R, 2016
Oil on canvas
14 x 14 inches
Sangram Majumdar
Press Into, 2020
Oil on linen
16 x 12 inches
Lauriston Avery
Astral Head #20, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Gary Stephan
Hand Mirror Two, 2022
Acrylic and gouache on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Holly Miller
Lightning, 2022
Acrylic, thread, and plastic bag on linen
12 x 12 inches
Polina Barskaya
Coffee in Naples, 2017
Acrylic on panel
9 x 12 inches
Mary Frank
Untitled (Figures in Boat), 2015-2020
Acrylic and ink on Bluestone
4 x 9 x 1/4 inches
Elena Sisto
Amphibia, 2022
Mixed media on panel
10 x 8 inches
Janice Nowinski
Male Nude with Knee Raised, 2022
Oil on panel
7 x 5 inches
Kyle Staver
Study for Dance in the woods, 2022
Oil on panel
7 x 5 inches
Sheila Pepe
Shoelace Drawing (12.30), 2022
Shoelaces, trims, fabric and thread
11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches
Julia Jacquette
Blond Curls I, 2008
Oil on wood panel
12 x 12 inches
Hanneline Rogeberg
Ora 29, 2020
Oil on linen
8 x 6 inches
Martha Armstrong
Morning Study-VT, 2021
Oil on board
8 x 10 inches
Judith Linhares
Cove, 2007
Oil on linen
12 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
Katherine Bradford
Seated and Standing, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
10 x 8 inches
David Humphrey
Two Crows, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 inches
Erika Ranee
Kerrie, 2022
Acrylic, shellac, ink, spray paint and collage on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Jiha Moon
Yellowave confetti (Fan shape), 2021
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze
6 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches
Vlad Petrovski
Perfect Timing III, 2023
Acrylic, flashe, and spray paint on canvas
15 x 13 inches
Trevor Winkfield
Parade, 2022
Acrylic on linen
12 x 12 inches
Nicholas DiLeo
Tenders, 2022
Enamel and oil on walnut and pine panels
15 x 15 inches
Barbara Takenaga
Tracing (Hokusai), 2022
Acrylic on panel
12 x 10 inches
Mernet Larsen
Trying to Think, 1996
Tracing paper, spackling compound, acrylic and pencil on an eight inch thick wood panel
8 x 11 3/4 inches
Julia Bland
Shadow Drawing, 2022
Oil paint, linen and wool
15 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches
Frank Jackson
Skyway, 2020
Fresco on burlap
7 1/2 x 10 inches
Duane Michals
Nora Barnacle, 2012
Tintype with hand-applied oil paint, 14 x 10 inches
Lisa Hoke
Kits, 2022
Cardboard, packaging, thread, felt and glue
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 2 inches
Rebecca Shore
Untitled (19-29), 2019
Acrylic on linen on panel
12 x 9 inches
Tom Burckhardt
Sledet, 2022
Oil on linen
14 x 12 inches
Mark Innerst
Downtown Connections, 2018
Oil on panel in the artist's handmade frame
5 x 7 inches (panel); 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (frame)
James Siena
Late Harvest Manifold, 2017
Enamel on aluminum
9 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 5/16 inches
Katia Santibañez
6Ndvg, 2022-23
Oil and casein on canvas
15 x 15 inches
Darren Waterston
Cyclops and Waves, 2022
Oil on wood panel
9 x 9 inches
Josh Dorman
Dromedary, 2010
Ink, acrylic and antique maps on panel
11 x 14 inches
Merlin James
Blue Birds, 2008
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
10 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches
Greg Lindquist
California Wildfire, 2022
Oil and metallic on linen on panel
8 x 12 x 1 inches
Robert Kushner
Phlox, 2011
Oil and acrylic on wood
13 x 9 1/4 inches
Claire Sherman
Moon, 2022
Oil on board
10 x 8 inches
Katy Schneider
Holy Holey, 2020
Oil on two vintage aluminum panels
3 x 4 inches (each panel)
Thomas Woodruff
Small Nessie Study (Glass Fire Bubbles), 2022
Acrylic on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Alexi Worth
Wine Glass, 2023
Acrylic on panel
12 x 9 inches
Steve DiBenedetto
Roman Plasma, 1999-2022
Oil on linen
9 x 13 inches
Medrie MacPhee
Dark Matter 9, 2019
Mixed media on wood
16 x 12 inches
Sharon Horvath
First Thing, 2022
Pigment, polymer on panel
14 x 11 inches
J.A. Feng
Timex Watch, 2017
Oil on burlap on panel
12 x 10 inches
James Hyde
Arose, 2022
Fresco on styrofoam
8 x 8 inches