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X-WR-CALNAME:DOYLE GERTJEJANSEN: Mapping Pangaea in New Orleans at Gal
	lery Bienvenu 518 Julia Street - Eventful
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SUMMARY:DOYLE GERTJEJANSEN: Mapping Pangaea
DESCRIPTION:  Reception with the artist: Saturday\, december 6th\, 200
	8  Is it possible to balance gravitas and levity\, conceptual sophisti
	cation and unabashed sensual delight? Yes\, is the answer Doyle Gertje
	jansen's paintings and sculpture unequivocally demonstrate. With their
	 juxtapositions of smooth and nubby textures\, contrived and spontaneo
	us gestures\, deep Renaissance perspective and flat modernist space\, 
	the works in Mapping Pangaea superimpose jaunty\, Stuart Davis-like rh
	ythms against the impulsivity of Abstract Expressionism and the witty\
	, self-referential pastiche of the postmodernist era. For more than th
	ree decades\, Gertjejansen\, chair of the fine arts department at the 
	University of New Orleans and recipient of a National Endowment for th
	e Arts Fellowship in painting\, has been a fixture in prestigious priv
	ate\, corporate\, and institutional collections around the United Stat
	es and the world. His works are richly nuanced meditations on art hist
	ory\, the relationship between authentic and metaphoric experience\, a
	nd the human compulsion to superimpose order upon the chaotic amoralit
	y of nature. The paintings are born of a fascinating dualistic process
	 that begins with the artist making arbitrary marks on his canvases-so
	metimes with his eyes closed to heighten the sense of Dadaist spontane
	ity-then 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 immaculat
	ely sanded 16-foot fiberglass sculpture entitled Frames of Reference w
	ill cap the show\, offering a smooth\, minimalist counterpoint to the 
	gestural and chromatic maximalism of the paintings. The sculpture feat
	ures an interactive sound component\, which expresses the artist's end
	uring fascination with the dark mysteries of nature and the methods by
	 which we attempt to fathom them. \n
LOCATION:Gallery Bienvenu 518 Julia Street @ Louisiana, United States
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