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X-WR-CALNAME:Doyle Gertjejansen Mapping Pangaea in New Orleans at 518 
	Julia Street - Eventful
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DTSTART:20081201T060000
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SUMMARY:Doyle Gertjejansen Mapping Pangaea
DESCRIPTION: Location:  518 Julia Street\, New Orleans\, LA 70130 Desc
	ription: Is it possible to balance gravitas and levity\, conceptual so
	phistication and unabashed sensual delight Yes\, is the answer Doyle G
	ertjejansens paintings and sculpture unequivocally demonstrate. With t
	heir juxtapositions of smooth and nubby textures\, contrived and spont
	aneous gestures\, deep Renaissance perspective and flat modernist spac
	e\, the works in Mapping Pangaea superimpose jaunty\, Stuart Davislike
	 rhythms against the impulsivity of Abstract Expressionism and the wit
	ty\, selfreferential pastiche of the postmodernist era. For more than 
	three decades\, Gertjejansen\, chair of the fine arts department at th
	e University of New Orleans and recipient of a National Endowment for 
	the Arts Fellowship in painting\, has been a fixture in prestigious pr
	ivate\, corporate\, and institutional collections around the United St
	ates and the world. His works are richly nuanced meditations on art hi
	story\, the relationship between authentic and metaphoric experience\,
	 and the human compulsion to superimpose order upon the chaotic amoral
	ity of nature. The paintings are born of a fascinating dualistic proce
	ss that begins with the artist making arbitrary marks on his canvasess
	ometimes with his eyes closed to heighten the sense of Dadaist spontan
	eitythen layering structural motifs on top\, pivoting between randomne
	ss and rigor until the dischord between the two coalesces into harmony
	. The completed artworks open up their thematic petals like lotus flow
	ers\, revealing fresh interpretive possibilities upon each viewing. Th
	eir robust conceptualism notwithstanding\, these are lushly colorful w
	orks that offer the eye no lack of voluptuary pleasures. An immaculate
	ly sanded 16foot fiberglass sculpture entitled Frames of Reference wil
	l cap the show\, offering a smooth\, minimalist counterpoint to the ge
	stural and chromatic maximalism of the paintings. The sculpture featur
	es an interactive sound component\, which expresses the artists enduri
	ng fascination with the dark mysteries of nature and the methods by wh
	ich we attempt to fathom them. 
LOCATION:518 Julia Street @ Louisiana, United States
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