Reliquaries OOP whether they portray an elaborate

whether they portray an elaborate sexual situation or actors waiting between takes

David Hockney

and collector's portraits were widely commissioned in France

Steven Arnold populates his elaborate tableaux with the objects and individuals of mankind’s collective cultural memory: figures from a Caravaggio painting

A Collection in Lieu of Memoirs

Reliquaries OOP whether they portray an elaborateIntroduction by Ellen Burstyn Steven Arnold populates his elaborate tableaux with the objects and individuals of mankinds collective cultural memory: figures from a Caravaggio painting; a dancer seen in a Cecil Beaton photograph; plastic swans from a Woolworths Five and Dime Store. Through the artists haunted eyes these images and artifacts are seen new again, with humor, melancholy, wit, sadness and above all, great artistry. twelvetrees press