will be on view at JE College
London's famed waterway is the focus of "John Virtue: New Small Paintings of the Thames, 2005," a new exhibition opening at Jonathan Edwards College (JE).
The show will be on display Feb. 2-April 30 in conjunction with the exhibit "London: John Virtue" at the Yale Center for British Art. (See related story.)
As the title of the show implies, the exhibition includes 48 works of modest size -- ranging from 3 to 15 inches wide. It also includes two large-scale pieces that are six
feet wide.
"From the beginning, [Virtue's] work migrates naturally between images that are physically tiny and others that command panoramic dimesions ...," writes Paul Moorhouse of the National Portrait Gallery in London, in an essay in the catalogue accompanying the JE exhibit. "Yet it is fundamental to Virtue's outlook that, irrespective of their scale, his paintings coexist equally."
Pointing to the artist's "ritual" of returning to the same location to create his drawings, Moorhouse notes: "In image after image, the Thames is a linking theme. Its course through London finds an echo in the way it flows through Virtue's paintings. In both contexts it has the character of an inevitable connecting presence, invested with light, movement and life. Returning to this place and this image, Virtue finds his subject endlessly renewed. Nothing is ever the same. The light is different; shapes and outlines harden and dissolve; the artist himself, and his response to the subject, change with the passage of time and the mood of the moment. Like diary pages, the paintings chart the intimate progress of an individual's experiences."
A talk by Simon Schama, University Professor of Art History at Columbia University and art critic and essayist for The New Yorker, will mark the opening of both Yale exhibitions. Titled "John Virtue: Marked by the City," the lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
The artist will talk about his work at the first of three Thursday afternoon master's teas being held during the run of the shows. "A Conversation with John Virtue" will take place on Thursday, Feb. 2. The organizing curator of "London: John Virtue," Angus Trumble, curator of paintings and sculpture at the British Art Center, will speak on March 23, and John Walsh '61 B.A., director emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum, will be the guest on Thursday, April 27. All three teas will take place at 4 p.m. in the JE master's house, 70 High St. They are free and open to the public.
"John Virtue: New Small Paintings of the Thames, 2005" is open for public viewing 4-6 p.m. most Thursdays or by appointment. For information, call (203) 432-0356.
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