The Power of the Figure in American Painting

First Tuesday Mill Valley Art Walk:
* Tuesday, April 2, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Exhibition Dates:
* March 20 – April 26, 2024

Kim Eagles-Smith Galley will exhibitThe Power of the Figure in American Painting

Featuring artworks in various mediums by:
Marshall Arisman, William Theophilus Brown, Lin Fischer, John Goodman, Gail Chadell Nanao,
Kenjilo Nanao, Nathan Oliveira and Valentin Popov.

Since the classical period of Western civilization, the depiction of the human form has been the measure of all things. It began then and was reaffirmed in Renaissance Europe fifteen hundred years later.

While innovative styles have broadened the scope of the human experience in art, and gave us Abstract Expressionism and non-objective art.

The figure has never disappeared from painting and remains a touchstone of our expression.

This exhibition explores some ways American artists have portrayed the human form during the twentieth and twenty first centuries.