Tag Archive "sande-webster-gallery"

R.L. Washington and Eric Mack: Beyond genre at Sande Webser

R. L. Washington’s Riding the L, 16 x 20 inches It’s easy to dismiss R.L. Washington’s paintings, mostly narrative and genre paintings from a painter with a seemingly sentimental eye, as nothing more. That would be a mistake. Although the work is clearly in the social realist tradition of Dox Thrash and New Deal artists, Washington walks a tightrope between the expected and the unexpected in his show, Slices of Life, at Sande Webster Gallery. Unexpected flashes of color and fluid dashes of paint, careful observation of African American life, and feelings of ambivalence make these paintings interesting. I have ... More » »

Reality Testing: Walter Cade III and Ann-Marie LeQuesne?

Jeans Hangin’ Out Back In a funny confluence of art-world serendipity, I really did visit Walter Cade III’s solo exhibit, Prancing Reflections, Strutting Shadows, at Sande Webster Gallery the same day I visited Ann-Marie Lequesne’s exhibit, After the Fact,at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts (see Roberta’s excellent post on Lequesne here). My only regret about this pairing was that I was unable to add Matt Fisher mini-exhibit at the 816 Gallery at UArts to the mix–the gallery was closed. Cade, who in the late 60s and early 70s showed at the Whitney Museum and the Corcoran, is ... More » »