In Dad’s Chair: New Work by Angelo Merendino on view at Foothill Galleries
The chair has been front and center in visual art for thousands of years. In the regal granodiorite sculptures of Pharaohs and the grand medieval altarpieces of the holy family; bearing the weight of Picasso’s Gertrude Stein, incriminating in Steichen’s homicidal J. Pierpoint Morgan, Esq., and in so many of Alice Neel’s intimate portraits, the chair is the necessary object for the seated portrait. As […]
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