"Painting Matters" at Terrain Gallery, NYC, 2010-2011

TERRAIN GALLERY "In reality opposites are one; art shows this." —Eli Siegel

Exhibition Fall 2010 - Spring 2011

All paintings say: You might not have seen this in just this way, and now you can....To see is to criticize; for to see is to accent and mute, include and leave out, add and subtract. In art, what the eye and self do is for the honor and full truth of reality; in what isn’t art, the eye can change reality out of fear, and in a manner dishonoring it....Paintings are awakening, delightfully chiding informants."

—Art as Real: Samples by Eli Siegel

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William Clutz, Lunch Hour

George Ortman, Signals

George Ortman, Mikado

Dorothy Koppelman, Birds, Bulbs, and Stamps

Su-Li Hung, Willow Tree

Peter Heinemann, Interior with Marie,
Cats, Lilies & Tulips

William Clutz, Yellow Street

Richard Sloat, Forest Light (diptych)

Richard Sloat, Silence of the Night

Dorothy Koppelman, Fish and Grapes

Peter Passuntino, Pensive Woman

Lois Dodd, Ice and Tree on the Bank

William Clutz, Park

William Willis, Brown Pitcher

William Willis, Untitled,
2008, 18 x 24

Dorothy Koppelman, Lunch Counter

Peter Passuntino, Perpetual War
Machine

The Terrain Gallery is proud to show some of the authentic painting of our time—with comment by the artists and others about the great reason why Painting Matters: “In art, what the eye and self do is for the honor and full truth of reality; in what isn’t art, the eye can change reality out of fear, and in a manner dishonoring it,” Eli Siegel wrote.

From the thoughtful and vivid abstractions of George Ortman, to the imaginary and wild symbolic scenes of Peter Passuntino, to the everyday human drama of people crossing a city street observed by William Clutz, these paintings are after “the full truth of reality.” And what could matter more? —from the announcement

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