James Guppy’s recent acrylic paintings on fabric, juxtaposing floral arrangements and contemporary businessmen, play with “the history of paint and value.” The artist showed his recent body of work in a run at Jan Murphy Gallery, titled “The Venal Garden.” Though absurdist initially in appearance, the works have a specific historical consideration.
“Contemporary capitalism has its roots in Holland and Britain during this period,” the artist said about the series. “The Tulip hysteria of this time was the first modern economic bubble and the tulip bulbs created the first “futures market”. One of the great outcomes of this economic frenzy are the Dutch Baroque paintings. Without this boom we would probably not have the works of artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Artemesia Gentilleschi, Willem van Aelst or Rachel Ruysch.”
See more of Guppy’s recent paintings below.
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Travel to a time where humans prevail in all their primeval glory in Attaboy's new show at The Compound Gallery. This body of work includes the buzzed-about rock paintings on rocks, adding to the meta-nature of the new show that seems to be extracted from animation. Is this place the fate of the future or is it a temporal glimpse into our primitive past? Either way, you are sure to enjoy a silent moment with the Monocrag—or take a hike on the Triple Cragscape. Come for the humans, stay for the future. The "Future Human" sideshow will be up in the grey gallery beginning October 19, so you better get yourself a souvenir before this painted epoch ends.