Thomas Lail, associate professor of fine arts, will exhibit works at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent this summer. The exhibition, “Notes for the Future,” opens July 5 and is a project of Architecture OMI.
Lail will exhibit recent xerography paintings, works on paper and concrete sculptures. Lail’s current exhibition, “The World We Lost” at Masters&Pelavin in New York, is on view through May 19.
In the tradition of history painting, Lail’s large-scale collages chart the persistent dream and tragedy of our lost Utopias. In Lail’s works, image fragments sourced from communes of the 1960s and 1970s, Modernist structures and idealized communities form the domes and maps of futurist/architect Buckminster Fuller to examine our persistent strivings and ideological failings — haunted always by Goya’s disasters and the gritty realities of Courbet. Lail’s works look to a better, once-dreamed future — perhaps a regained past that never was — to map a fleeting dream of Utopia.
For more information:
www.artomi.org
www.masterspelavin/worldwelost
Published: Fri, 11 May 2012 11:40:21 +0000 by t.lail