Gallery Opening: The Super Hero's Journey by Patrick McDonnell
Schedule
Sat Nov 16 2024 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Arts Council of Princeton | Princeton, NJ
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Join us for the opening of Patrick McDonnell’s The Super Hero’s Journey, on view in our Taplin Gallery."All art is a form of meditation, a looking inward to find the real you, the secret identity of the super hero in us all.
These paintings, of acrylic latex, oil stick, ink, and collage are a continuation of the story of self-discovery told in my graphic novel, The Super Hero’s Journey, which I created for Marvel and Abrams Books.
I've always loved the raw beauty and kinetic energy of both comic art and abstract expressionism. My art heroes include Schulz, Herriman, and Kirby, along with de Kooning, Twombly and Basquiat. The paintings in this exhibition celebrate a surprising symbiotic interplay of these two dynamic art forms. Here, I explore and expand on the spiritual and political undertones of the early Marvel super hero comics of my youth: the interplay between gods and man and the divisiveness of hero versus hero. This work is a dance of nostalgic simplicity and moral innocence trying to come to terms with today's unprecedented fear of a dystopian future with hope for a better tomorrow."
- Patrick McDonnell
Patrick McDonnell: creator of the worldwide syndicated comic strip, MUTTS; New York Times best selling and Caldecott Honor winning children’s book author (Me…Jane, a biography of Jane Goodall), painter (2021 solo artist exhibit at Ohio State University), and award-winning playwright. McDonnell has collaborated on books with Marvel Comics, Eckhart Tolle, and the Dalai Lama. He is a board member for the Charles M. Schulz Museum and D&R Greenway Land Trust, an animal activist, and faithful dog walker.
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Where is it happening?
Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon St,Princeton,NJ,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
