The Common Object

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Lancaster Museum of Art Lancaster, PA
Jan. 8, 2010 - Feb. 28, 2010
Peninsula Fine Arts Center Newport News, VA
April 3, 2010 - July 11, 2010
Prince Street Gallery New York, NY
Oct. 5, 2010 - Oct. 30, 2010
MICA Baltimore, MD
Dec. 1, 2011 - March 11, 2012

ZEUXIS, an association of still life painters, is pleased to present The Common Object. For this exhibition, Zeuxis artists and their guests have each produced a still life incorporating an ordinary dishtowel. Their approaches to this humble tool of daily life demonstrate the many ways in which painters can, in the words of John Updike, "give the mundane its beautiful due."

The economic anxieties of our time may stimulate new ways of appreciating the basics. The dishtowel might be treated as an inanimate object - for its drapery folds, its pattern or use as a backdrop - or might be examined for its versatility and usefulness. Still life is the act of noticing how the world looks, and The Common Object celebrates the wonders of the quotidian, through open-minded perspectives of contemporary American artists.