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Emilia Faro, Carnival Party, 2010. Watercolor on paper. Image courtesy of the Progressive Corporation |
Closing this Sunday, May 19 is A Family Affair. This is a rare chance for the general public to experience outstanding selections of art from the Progressive Corporations contemporary art collection.
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Emilia Fargo, The Red Sledge, 2010. Watercolor on paper. Image courtesy of the Progressive Corporation. |
Emilia Faro is an artist featured in the exhibition, and is primarily a watercolor painter, working in a style that exploits the medium to the highest degree. Using a watercolor technique of “wet-into-wet”, Faro achieves a watery and dreamlike appearance for her cast of characters—many of whom are lifted from her own personal narrative. Oftentimes, she pulls imagery from old photo albums and scrapbooks, recasting the scenes in the hazy blur where all memories ultimately reside. Faro’s ethereal images are ghostlike portents from the past, yet brought to the present with lifelike exactitude and a somewhat exposed interior—as the very soul of the portrait lives on, yet only in the very presence of the painting itself.
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Emilia Faro, Snow, 2010. Watercolor on paper. Image courtesy of the Progressive Corporation. |
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Emilia Faro, My Sixth Birthday, 2010. Watercolor on paper. Image courtesy of the Progressive Corporation. |
A Family Affair
Selections from the Progressive Art Collection
Closing May 19, 2013 | FAC galleries are open Tuesday-Sunday, 10a-5p
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