Reliquaries OOP In a series of intimate

In a series of intimate portraits infused with purpose

whether they portray an elaborate sexual situation or actors waiting between takes

I see at the same time that bird on a tree near the house

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Steven Arnold populates his elaborate tableaux with the objects and individuals of mankind’s collective cultural memory: figures from a Caravaggio painting

Reliquaries OOP In a series of intimateIntroduction by Ellen Burstyn Steven Arnold populates his elaborate tableaux with the objects and individuals of mankinds collective cultural memory: figures from a Caravaggio painting; a dancer seen in a Cecil Beaton photograph; plastic swans from a Woolworths Five and Dime Store. Through the artists haunted eyes these images and artifacts are seen new again, with humor, melancholy, wit, sadness and above all, great artistry. twelvetrees press