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The catalog for the exhibition James Westwater: Plywood Chateaux, at NavtaSchulz Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. The book includes 19 color plates of Westwater's paintings, lightboxes and Plywood Chateaux, photographed by Tom Moore, the essay 'Blue Monday: Embedded Influences for James Westwater,' by Steven Evans, the essay 'Refinding Looking: An Introduction to the Work of James Westwater,' by Zane Fischer, and a foreword by Ryan Schulz.
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About the Author:
Steven Evans is Dia Art Foundation Assistant Director for Beacon and a freelance writer and curator. Zane Fischer is a freelance arts writer, columnist, culture critic and the editor of disCOARSE.com. Ryan Schulz is the director of NavtaSchulz Gallery.
Review:
Everyone else can ogle the mkLotus, the prefab of the moment is the Plywood Chateau by artist James Westwater. --Lloyd Alter, TreeHugger
The light boxes and diorama-like plywood cases in Brazilian artist James Westwater's Plywood Chateaux contain images of opulent spaces--garages full of antique limousines, bedrooms and dining rooms that could be from Versailles, and views of nameless courtyards in idyllic, rural Mediterranean paradises--interrupted by a single, ubiquitous, abstract shape (a head? a hole?) that becomes inexorably paired with the images around it. Even when appearing alone in white space, the shape retains these associations, in the same way that a logo summons up the meaning attached to it by branding. --Gerry Mak, Flavorpill
Westwater's ubiquitous oval color palettes dominate his canvasses, redefine found and original images, and throw your assumptions off kilter. You'll try looking around one. Then you'll try blending it into the scene. Then the intellectual sparring begins: Were these photos of opulent settings and dime store reproductions ever art? Is this intrusion actually an improvement? Is this a harmless prank after Andy Warhol or a brilliant, scandalous statement after Marcel Duchamp? The exhibition's two 'chateaus' are the Brazilian-British-American artist's meditations on transitory living--a carpeted plywood cube on wheels in which you may sit and imagine living in blemished splendor. A series placing the oval on monochrome canvases track the artist's process and reinforce his signature image, which you may continue to see days later. --Justin Sondak, Centerstage
The light boxes and diorama-like plywood cases in Brazilian artist James Westwater's Plywood Chateaux contain images of opulent spaces--garages full of antique limousines, bedrooms and dining rooms that could be from Versailles, and views of nameless courtyards in idyllic, rural Mediterranean paradises--interrupted by a single, ubiquitous, abstract shape (a head? a hole?) that becomes inexorably paired with the images around it. Even when appearing alone in white space, the shape retains these associations, in the same way that a logo summons up the meaning attached to it by branding. --Gerry Mak, Flavorpill
Westwater's ubiquitous oval color palettes dominate his canvasses, redefine found and original images, and throw your assumptions off kilter. You'll try looking around one. Then you'll try blending it into the scene. Then the intellectual sparring begins: Were these photos of opulent settings and dime store reproductions ever art? Is this intrusion actually an improvement? Is this a harmless prank after Andy Warhol or a brilliant, scandalous statement after Marcel Duchamp? The exhibition's two 'chateaus' are the Brazilian-British-American artist's meditations on transitory living--a carpeted plywood cube on wheels in which you may sit and imagine living in blemished splendor. A series placing the oval on monochrome canvases track the artist's process and reinforce his signature image, which you may continue to see days later. --Justin Sondak, Centerstage
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- PublisherNavtaSchulz Gallery
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1604614609
- ISBN 13 9781604614602
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages44
- EditorNaomi Sachs
- IllustratorTom Moore
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