GROUP EXHIBITION

VANITAS

January 17 - April 21, 2025

OPENING EVENT: february 7, 2025 | 5 - 8 PM

Art history references tables and settings through still lifes and portraiture, moments from the past that define life at those times. Those cultural identifiers further outline the people, their socialization practices, and not so subtly, their food choices. By examining these tables from a contemporary viewpoint, similar realizations come to the forefront, placing the table as more than a surface for dining, but as a platform for commentary.

Art history has served as connecter, community builder, and cultural signifier. However, it has also reflected value systems that, just as often, keep individuals and groups isolated, excluded, and left out of the conversation. Genres of painting that have persisted through, and evolved with, artistic movements–still-life, portraiture, genre painting, and classical imagery–serve as reflections of the period’s value systems, in the context of Western society. Vanitas attempts to explore the ways in which today’s artists transform these traditional iconographies to articulate contemporary viewpoints and value systems. 

DuPont I Gallery