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the background. Explaining the piece, the
artist says, “This particular bird projected
an elegant bearing that demanded
representation on an immersive scale.
The magnitude of this piece allows full
exploration in constructing tactile illu-
sions describing each perceptible surface.
With the overall brightness of the white
snowy owl, I was challenged by how much
to reveal in the interplay of texture and
pattern of the feather structure with the
addition of dramatic lighting cascading
across the plumage. The owl is surround
by sections of Old Master landscape, which
felt like the perfect complement to such
a magnificent creature. Instead of just a
fleeting glimpse of this bird, in the natural
environment, their majesty is poised,
frozen in time.”
Laurence painted Interior, After Degas
after a work by the French artist that is in
the collection of Philadelphia Museum of
Art. Degas’ piece, titled Interior, features a
sensitive subject matter with a woman in
a bedroom partially undressed and a man
dressed standing in the doorway—it is also
has been known by the title The Rape.
Laurence says, “I started this piece a year
before the movement of #MeToo suddenly
exploded with its subsequent outing in
the media of the long-suffered abuse of
women by powerful men and the focus on
the inequality that women face every day
in what is still a male-dominated world...
In my painting, just as in his, we are keenly
aware of an event having taken place in a
bedroom, possibly sexual, and that both
the woman and the man are trapped in
their very differing conceptions of what
has just passed between them emotionally.
We are not sure whether abuse or disap-
pointment has occurred toward either; it’s
up to the viewer to decide.”
An Awakening will be on view March 21
through April 17.
RJD Gallery 2385 Main Street • Bridgehampton,
NY 11932 • (631) 725-1161 • http://www.rjdgallery.com
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Jorge Santos, Gatherer,
oil and acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24"
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Tyler Vouros, Bubo Scandiacus (Snowy Owl),
charcoal and water mounted on paper, 68 x 42"
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