Serrano Gallery presents

PATRICK PALMER: WOMAN

50 + Paintings of Women I Have Known or Imagined

March 18 - April 14, 2021

Curator: Armando Rodriguez

Opening Reception

Thursday, March 25, 6:00 to 9:00 PM

Artist Talk

Saturday, April 10, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Silver Street. 2000 Edwards Street. #317. Houston, TX 77007

Private visits scheduled by appointment: (713) 724-0709

SELECT WORKS

Over 50 works will be on display in the gallery.

Statement

Can we ever really comprehend someone else’s full humanity? I am captivated by the gamut and complexity of human experience, and the nuances and contradictions that are a part of life. The works in Woman surreptitiously probe what it means to be a human in one kind of body or another.

Although my work can be described as figurative, I am not interested in portraiture. Because our stories are so vastly different, in the end, what connects us to each other is something impalpable and mysterious; it cannot be measured, quantified, categorized or harnessed. 

Moods, expressions, feelings -- this is the realm I explore in my work. I approach the eyes of my subjects as elusive ‘cartographies of experience.’ When I am successful, the real and imagined collide in my stylized depictions of faces and figures, and identities are rendered as fluid, layered, superimposed and/or distorted. They raise more questions than provide answers. Just when you think you might understand, that can change; your surrounding environment and your own shifting experiences inevitably become a part of the narrative.

ARTIST BIO

Patrick M. Palmer is currently the Dean at The Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as well as Faculty Chair of its Studio School and Department Head of Art History. He earned a BA from the University of California/Santa Barbara in 1977 and an MFA from Arizona State University in 1979. Palmer has been teaching at The Glassell School of Art, MFAH for 31 years and has been Dean for 10 years. Throughout his 50+ years of painting, Palmer placed works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and many other prestigious museum and university collections. Palmer’s current works often examine the theme abstracted figures/heads, in this case his energies are focused on the female gaze and the psychological intrigue of these quiet portraits.

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SERRANO GALLERY specializes in contemporary abstract and figurative art by established and emerging international artists, with a primary focus on Latin American artists. The mission of the gallery is to promote art that nurtures the human soul. The gallery regularly hosts public exhibitions and arts events in its state-of-the-art facility throughout the year, and welcomes visitors by appointment.