SEPTEMBER
12 - OCTOBER 14, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 13, 6 - 8 PM
JACQUES LOUIS VIDAL: I
MAKE MY OWN LUCK
PAUL WADDELL: I
KNOW YOU'RE RIGHT
JACQUES
LOUIS VIDAL
LAMONTAGNE
GALLERY is pleased to open the fall season with a new exhibition of
work by Jacques Louis Vidal in the main gallery and Paul Waddell in
the project room. The exhibit opens on September 13th and remains
on view through October 14th.
Vidal's current body of work deals with resiliency of an idea or object,
as the most important part of its success. The artist mines the wells
of superstition; pulling from a culture of gambling, romance,
and entrepreneurship. Through the obsessive collecting and collaging,
together of images, Vidal illustrates the humorous and heroic attempts
to connect to the world around us through sturdy objects and works
on paper.
It has been said that “if artists Mike Kelly, Bill Traylor and
Kiki Smith were to have a love child it might be Jacques Louis Vidal.”
Like those artists, Vidal's work has many of the characteristics of
folk art – a rejection of academic technique, a preference for
centralized or all-over compositions, and a prioritization of the
local rather than the general. Vidal’s use of folk idioms has
very little to do with the populist and wholesome values that underpin
the majority of the work, which usually bears that name.Vidal’s
work is a complex intermingling of "wayward forms and subjects"
treated with both reverence and skepticism.
Jacques Louis Vidal (b. 1982) received his BFA from the School of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where he received numerous awards
including the Museum School Student Annual Painting/Drawing Prize
(2002), the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship (2000-2004), and the Katherine
Lane Weems Merit Scholarship (2000-2004). Vidal is currently
an MFA candidate at the Yale University School of Art.
Paul Waddell's project room installation, You Know You're Right, Waddell
creates dense groupings of paintings of varied style and size. These
paintings generate provocative and obscure relationships through the
relentlessness of the artist's layered installation. The juxtaposition
of formal figurative works alongside thickly applied crude text paintings
conjur up playfully unnerving questions.
Paul Waddell received his 5th year diploma from the School of Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston where he produced many performance events with
"Test" and "Contaminate". Recently reviewed in
Art Papers, Waddell also just completed a residency at the Vermont
Studio Center, and currently instructs at Idyllwild Arts Academy (CA).
Founded
in 2007, LaMontagne Gallery is a 2,300 square foot exhibition space
located in South Boston on East Second Street. Russell LaMontagne
was previously co-Founder of LFL Gallery in New York City.
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