CALEB WEINTRAUB: Rumspringa. Humdinger. The Leisure Class-- Off the Wall, and Out on a Limb
Peter Miller Gallery Ltd. west loop/west town
118 N Peoria St.
Chicago, IL 60607
312.951.1700
http://www.petermillergallery.com/
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"you are as likely to find me at a local hobby shop or knitting center as at any art supply store... there's something satisfying about making sculptures from resurrected furniture parts, styrofoam and scraps of pillow trim. I think if i were a tassle, i'd rather be on a sculpture than a comforter"
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" i pour paint and let it pool and hope something good happens... i like to look into it and wait for an image to emerge, like the way you can see creatures in the clouds or monsters in wood grain. if i see something, i go after it... pour more paint to pull it out, or paint with brushes, or droppers or cake decoraters ... or an airbrush. i recently started using oil pastels... i like them because they are bright and because when Idraw with them i feel like i'm digging".
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Caleb weintraub is and emerging artist originally from New York, now living in Indiana. Caleb has shown work in New York, Chicago, LA, Zurich, and London. He has a current show in Santa Fe, NM and will have upcoming work in an exhibition of the Richard Harris Collection,at the Chicago Cultural Center in winter 2012. Weintraub is following up on an exhibition opportunity for the near future in Kiev, Ukraine. His work has recently entered into several contemporary art collections in New York and California. He is grateful for the interest and support he has received and is excited to be plugging away in the studio.
1917 E MARILYN DR, BLOOMINGTON, IN 47401 USA 812 361 7606
past. They are large, painted with oil and filled with figures in various postures and arrangements. But whereas epic works have been used throughout history to glorify someone or something by means of persuasion, my paintings rely on those tropes to call the very same forces into question. So the elaborate costuming one might find in an art historical painting as a signal of status or gallantry, appear in my paintings as mockeries of pretention. Rituals and narratives made vivid in the past to give truth to the uncanny appear here as empty propaganda. By exposing the shabby construction that makes up our memory and our morality, I hope to be reminded of the formulas of excesses and complacency that cause us to be vulnerable. Without the specters of religion, nationalism, and patrician identity, it is only the signifiers that remain on the canvas. Clothing, prop and person become subject to color, description and arrangement. By reducing these figural arrangements to spectacles of imagination and sensuality all that is left is the underlying sentiment. In this way I hope to restore to painting what I have always found to be its essential power-- the ability to explore emotion by applying internal observations to external realities, to use manipulations of palette, mark, and expression to make remarkable the unremarkable and to insert humanity where none exists".
paintings; I use dried paint skins, fabric and appliqué like paint strokes. Some of these works are constructed fully by hand using wood, wire, and foam sculpted with a heat wand. In an effort to gain optimal control over my armatures, I have recently begun to use the program Mudbox with a Wacom tablet and stylus to form trees, weapons, faces and figures. Afterwards, I turn out the files in EPS foam and paint and apply material as usual while trying to maintain a fair amount of the original forms and features".
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