Wes Magyar at Pirate. (Denver).(Brief Article)

From: Art in America | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

"Said and Done" was the matter-of-fact title Wes Magyar gave his show of six oil paintings (all dated 2002) along with four colored-pencil drawings that offered different views of the same scenes. That tone of everyday pervades these modest-scale views of men and women in ordinary settings, doing unremarkable things that are, however, subtly off-key. The obvious comparison is Eric Fischl's early paintings, but the diversions here are not erotic. They're harder to name.

In the title painting, for example, we see two middle-aged men shaking hands. They have receding gray hair ...

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