Michael St John
These Days: The Passions
November 20, 2020 - January 9, 2021
J Bradley Greer
Textural Innuendo
November 20, 2020 - January 9, 2021
Michael St John - Ghostface, 2020 Oil on Canvas 24x30”
J Bradley Greer - Untitled-0102, 2020. Oil on Panel 12x9"
Michael St John’s series These Days / The Passions follows on his celebrated Democracy Series. In both series each paintings remain consistently the same demure size -24x30- and share a single central image format. While the sources for Democracy were derived from deliberately diverse media sources these are conversely all faces or icons derived from memorable moments from films - both classic literate cinema and ubiquitous Hollywood entertainments.
This will be the first Houston area show for the Los Angeles painter. These sixteen demurely-scaled paintings with thick luscious surfaces and jewel-like colors in concert with almost comically biomorphic forms will seduce sophisticated viewers and visual art neophytes equally. The only play of “is it a flower or a sex organ” - is given new life in these painted innuendos.