Lucy Hogg @ Flashpoint Gallery

It was recently requested that I go see the Lucy Hogg solo show at Flashpoint Gallery. And so this past Saturday, Stacey and I saw the show. We took the following pictures and I've provided text from the show's press release for a comprehensive view of the work.

"As in earlier work by Hogg, these paintings are excerpts sourced from Old Master paintings. This time, the criterion for selection was a search for what she calls 'the proto-photographic moment.'"

"Hogg illuminates fugitive expressions in the portraits that deny the duration of a portrait-painting session and invoke the fiction of the fleeting glance. Rather than the stilted pose which can be the product of a long sitting, Hogg’s found expressions capture fleeting moments of emotion or attitude, and as a result highly particularize the sitter."

"Read through the filter of our understanding of the later photographic moment, the portraits seem 'alive.'
Treated as saturated monochromes on portrait ovals, the heads float."

"By removing historical signifiers such as ruffs, hats, cravats or elaborate hair, the faces become timeless and can exist as contemporary countenances. This project, begun in 2004, is the last in a series of projects Hogg has undertaken since 1990, in which she has tried to put the history of painting into the present tense."

There you have it. I, too, suggest you see these paintings in person. I don't think you can truly appreciate them otherwise.