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Glancing Back May - June 2000 Curator: Nathan Harpaz |
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Glancing Back May - June 2000 Curator: Nathan Harpaz |
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Glancing Back is a series of works created in the last two years by muralist, easel painter and printmaker John Pitman Weber. Although it is difficult to separate Weber's life from his artistic philosophy, the autobiographical nature of the Glancing Back series reveals much about the artist's family and childhood. Weber created the series after studying family photographs at a transitory stage in life: middle age. From the introduction of the exhibition's catalog Weber invents a narrative
style that is not linear but is more related to how we continuously reorganize
the images of our lives, repeating or revisiting crucial moments. The exhibition
Glancing
Back illustrates how the reflective act of painting can reconnect the
photograph with the emotional material of our lives.
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