John Wallace, Higgins Hall 2011
The John Wallace
exhibition at Higgins
Hall Gallery on the midtown campus February 17 through March
10.
Please note that the images here are dated and the show included
60 years of John's works. The second set of pictures here are from the
opening reception for the artist on Thursday Feb. 17th.
Titled “John Wallace – 60 years of
Painting” the exhibition has representative paintings from a
decades long artistic career. Although somewhat different in scale
and scope, these works show a remarkable consistency in their
figuration, use of metaphor, and narrative content:
“…Wallace is nothing if not a consummately sophisticated painter,
capable of producing effects which can, and should, be savored for
their purely aesthetic qualities. That said, however, it is also
true that Wallace…brings to visual art a narrative gift so richly
novelistic that one can’t help pondering the possible meanings of
his compositions any more than ignore all the subtextual
implications in a complex prose passage from Nabakov or Updike.
Indeed, Wallace is one of our more intriguing post-modern
storytellers…”
Ed McCormack
Gallery & Studio, February 2007
John Wallace received a B.F.A. from Washington University and an
M.F.A. from Indiana University. He also studied at Skowhegan, where
he received a Margaret Tiffany Blake fellowship for creating a
fresco in the choir loft of the South Solon Meeting House, which is
now a historic landmark. He is also the recipient of a Huntingdon
Hartford Fellowship and a Roswell Museum Fellowship. His work is in
museums and significant private collections. From 1982 thru 2009 he
taught at Western Connecticut State University where he was
co-coordinator of the M.F.A. program from 2000 thru 2009.
