We all love big; we love the drama of scale. But intimacy has its own magic, connecting us to the size of books, of faces, of mirrors, of things glimpsed in private, seen by one person at a time. Or not seen in full until the curious viewer steps closer.
A large exhibition of small paintings, Come A Little Closer, features the work of 70 plus artists. The exhibition opens January 12 and continues through February 11, 2023.
“I remember once walking with Jacob Lawrence into his major Phillips Collection exhibition in Washington. On the entrance wall, the curators had made a HUGE mural-sized photo blow-up of one of the works from his Migration Series. It looked stunning. But then as we walked through the show, we came to the same work. Relatively tiny, not much bigger than Jacob’s two hands. It was even more powerful, more mesmerizing, more inviting. It did not need to be wall sized to hold the wall, and that is something that Jake had known.”
Eric Aho
Martha Armstrong
Lauriston Avery
Polina Barskaya
Julia Bland
Katherine Bradford
Tom Burckhardt
Theresa Daddezio
Lisa Corinne Davis
Steve DiBenedetto
Nicholas DiLeo
Lois Dodd
Josh Dorman
J. A. Feng
Mary Frank
Elizabeth Glaessner
Greg Goldberg
Brenda Goodman
Scott Grodesky
Heidi Hahn
James Hannaham
Lisa Hoke
Sharon Horvath
David Humphrey
James Hyde
Mark Innerst
Frank Jackson
Julia Jacquette
Merlin James
Valerie Jaudon
Sanam Khatibi
Byron Kim
Joyce Kozloff
Robert Kushner
Mernet Larsen
Greg Lindquist
Judith Linhares
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Bridget Moore’s memory of a small, powerful Jacob Lawrence painting was the spark for Come a Little Closer, which gathers an unruly sampling of ostensibly “little” works with major impact. We all love big; we love the drama of scale. But intimacy has its own magic, connecting us to the size of books, of faces, of mirrors, of things glimpsed in private, seen by one person at a time. Or not seen in full until the curious viewer steps closer.
The works in this exhibition measure from tiny to 15”. The artists that created them have varied motivations, but all the works are meant to be the size they are; in other words none are preparatory studies. Some play with ideas of “real scale,” some counter our expectations of detail, others luxuriate in the compression of information.
Whitfield Lovell
Danica Lundy
Medrie MacPhee
Maud Madsen
Sangram Majumdar
Joshua Marsh
Keisha Prioleau-Martin
Nat Meade
Melissa Meyer
Duane Michals
Holly Miller
Jiha Moon
Garry Nichols
Janice Nowinski
Odili Donald Odita
Sheila Pepe
Vlad Petrovski
Erika Ranee
Hanneline Rogeberg
Katia Santibañez
Katy Schneider
Claire Sherman
Rebecca Shore
James Siena
Elena Sisto
Jane South
Michael Stamm
Kyle Staver
Clintel Steed
Gary Stephan
Barbara Takenaga
Shawn Thornton
Darren Waterston
Leslie Wayne
Trevor Winkfield
Alexi Worth
Thomas Woodruff
Artists Alexi Worth and Odili Donald Oditi discuss their work and the exhibitions Come A Little Closer at DC Moore Gallery and Odili Donald Odita: Burning Cross at Jack Shainman Gallery
