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KARL ISBERG






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It’s a chair. It sits in my living room, next to a bank of windows. It’s leather. Brown. Inviting. I sit in my chair nearly every day, sipping a drink, gazing out the windows, watching birds and the branches of trees as they are nudged by the wind. I look at my chair nearly every day, admiring its bulk, the curve of its arms, its solidity. It does very well what a chair is intended to do: it holds its sitters in luxurious embrace, enfolding them – a seat of comfort.


It is a practical object. It is here as an object, yet it is more. I did a series of paintings and drawings of my chair. And of the bodies that join its space. How many ways could I look at this chair; how many ways could I re-create it? How could I reduce this chair to its essence, then transform that essence into images? How can paint become chair become bodies become idea? I found many ways to look at my chair, to re-present it and the bodies it carries, to bring what is unseen to sight. Yet, when all is done, it’s a chair. It sits in my living room, next to a bank of windows. It’s leather. Brown. Inviting.

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The Chair


August 13 - September 18, 2011