Overview

With a foreword by Devin Johnston and studio photographs by Moira Tarmy. Through the drawings and paintings included in Duet (with Chorus), Brian Calvin explores arrangements of figures at once boldly simplified and subtly expressive. In doing so, he works with a basic vocabulary of facial features, fingers, collar, hair, and perhaps a flower behind the ear--all stripped of excess detail. The work arose from a commission, to create an exhibit to accompany Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Metropolitan Opera. As Calvin explains his approach, ""Rather than illustrating scenes from the plot of Così fan tutte, I lingered on the organizing principle of duets in Mozart's opera, exploring harmony and dissonance through repetition and difference.""

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"""The way the paintings sort of meld into each other, or the characters themselves appear in multiple compositions reveal an artist in constant motion, constantly tinkering, perhaps waiting on the world or not even allowing himself to think about it all. As always, the results are stimulating and stunning.""--Evan Pricco, Juxtapoz"

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Born in 1969, Brian Calvin is an artist who lives and works in Southern California. His work has been widely shown, nationally and internationally; it is included in the permanent collections of the Orange County Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others.

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