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To see the Peter Ferguson show please click HERE.
To see the Seamus Conley show please click HERE.
Roq La Rue
presents
Peter Ferguson
"Black Jubilee"
new paintings
and
Seamus Conley
"I Think We're Alone Now"
new pantings
March 8th - April 6th 2013
Peter Ferguson and Seamus Conley
Montreal-based painter Peter Ferguson shows intricately detailed paintings, evocative scenes of explorers and adventurers with a 1940's National Geographic meets HP Lovecraft twist. Peter Ferguson's meticulously painted, darkly humorous narratives also evoke early 20th century small town Americana (or Canadiana as the case may be). Combining the fantasy of the great ages of exploration with a distinctly paranormal bent, Ferguson's work hovers along the lines of fantasy without ever fully teetering into full scale camp, and his work retains an air of both wonder and occasional melancholy.
Seamus Conley shows dreamily hazy paintings of figures in beautiful if somewhat foreboding fantastical landscapes. His work is a blend of photo-realistic imagery and moody magical realism. His enigmatic paintings feature people with their back predominantly to the viewer or faces concealed in some manner, often a hard visual trick to pull off yet executed successfully through Conley's combination of intricate detail and romantically isolated atmospheres. Dressed in modern clothing, his subjects are often juxtaposed against (and sometimes gazing longingly at) epic, timeless landscapes, or modern settings that nonetheless have a dreamlike, pristine aura, evoking contemplation of the transient nature of time, our place in the world, and moments of transcendence found in even the seemingly mundane.
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