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If our biological genealogy can be traced through the scientific enumeration of our ancestors, then what tool better than art to examine our “inner” roots? The paintings of Jonny Silva do just that. His portraits of cartoonish relatives are not a literal genealogy, but clues to the origins of his own imagination. The strange remnants of trauma passed on through ancestral memory are viscerally portrayed in his troubled country folk, who fumble on the guitars while beholding gory ghosts of anatomies past drifting over the fields. Even an image as simple as a man pondering a sandwich becomes humorously ominous in Silva’s hands. His work leaves one with the sense that our progeny bare not only the ramifications of our waking actions, but also the residual anxieties of our misunderstood dreams. So figure yourself out for pity’s sake.
Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Starts: Nov. 7. Continues through Nov. 22, 2009
Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Starts: Nov. 7. Continues through Nov. 22, 2009
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