BRAD OVERTON’S NEW EXHIBITION, EROS AND THANATOS, DELVES INTO THE IMPULSES OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE.
In 1920, Sigmund Freud wrote his essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle where he discusses the dynamics between the life drive and the death drive. The life drive, which he called Eros after the Greek god of love, is identified through positive emotions such as love and creativity. Negative emotions and risky behaviors are revealed through the death drive, or Thanatos, a post-Freudian term. Freud argued the duality of the two, in that they help define one another but are distinct and opposing.
Artist Brad Overton focuses on this concept in his new exhibition Eros and Thanatos at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show will feature new calavera portraits and his annual painting of the Koshare. In contrast to Freud, Overton “suggests that maybe [Eros and Thanatos] are just two sides of the same coin,” explains the gallery. “Maybe they are different manifestations of the same energy turned up or down in frequency— and perhaps that energy flowing from a single source does so for good or ill in our lives depending on our ability to nurture or suppress what it fuels.”
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.
