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Prince Street Gallery — October 5-30 2010
MICA Meyerhoff Gallery — December 9, 2011-March 18, 2012
Zeuxis is a grassroots organization of painters formed in 1995 to explore the contemporary possibilites of the still life. For The Common Object, Zeuxis artists and their guests agreed to produce a still life incorporating an ordinary dishtowel. Their approaches to this humble tool of daily life demonstrate the many ways in which still life painters can, in the words ofJohn Updike, "give the mundane its beautiful due." The economic anxieties of our time may stimulate new ways of appreciating the basics. The dishtowel might be treated as an inanimate object — for its drapery folds, its pattern or use as a backdrop — or it might be examined for its versatility and usefulness. Still life is the art of noticing how the world looks, and The Common Object celebrates the wonders of the quotidian, through the open~minded perspectives of contemporary American artists.
Peninsula Fine Arts Center — April 3-July 11, 2010
101 Museum Drive
Newport News, Virginia
Prince Street Gallery — October 5-30 2010
530 West 25 Street
New York, New York
MICA Meyerhoff Gallery — December 9, 2011-March 18, 2012
Fox Building
1303 West Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland
