November 04, 2010

Prof. Hottle’s Current Exhibition in Portland

Half/Dozen Gallery www.halfdozengallery.com  presents So Domestic by artist Grant Hottle. This exhibition is a slice of a broad body of paintings and drawings that explore the shifting and ambivalent nature of the home.

November 4 – December 18, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4th, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Half/Dozen Gallery presents So Domestic by artist Grant Hottle. This exhibition is a slice of a broad body of paintings and drawings that explore the shifting and ambivalent nature of the home. 

Both embracing and railing against the domestication of home life, this work struggles to find permanent residence. The American dream of owning a home is now an unlikely luxury for the working class; we rent instead of own, and speak of mobility as an asset and permanence as an anchor. Hottle presents the personal, romantic notion of a place beside its disheveled and bending reality, moving between the romantic and the mundane without deliberation.

Hottle’s work is part of a group of contemporary painters who are aiming to combine formal elements of modernism – color sensibilities, attention to surface and flatness, treating paintings as objects – with the technical and compositional structure of classical painting. The work brings a sense of majesty and grandiosity to the contemporary, everyday world.

 

Half/Dozen

625 NW Everett St #111

Portland, OR 97209

www.halfdozengallery.com

info@halfdozengallery.com

www.granthottle.com