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Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of historic works from 1970-72 by Chicago artist Robert Lostutter (b.1939). This will be Lostutter’s first solo exhibition in New York City in over 30 years.
Lostutter is best known for his illusory paintings of androgynous male-avian hybrids. The precursor to this subversive zoomorphism included years of experimenting with quasi- masochistic human bodies suspended in surreal, theatrical landscapes. Lostutter spent much of the 1970s investigating the bridge between human, animal, and geometric forms in watercolor and oil.
His deft watercolors openly converse with the bodily compositions of Richard Lindner but deviate to engage with questions of gender identity, self-expression, transformation, play, pain, privacy, and fantasy. Costumed figures suggest participation within a larger theatrical production hidden from view. Ambiguous surreal elements...More
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Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of historic works from 1970-72 by Chicago artist Robert Lostutter (b.1939). This will be Lostutter’s first solo exhibition in New York City in over 30 years.
Lostutter is best known for his illusory paintings of androgynous male-avian hybrids. The precursor to this subversive zoomorphism included years of experimenting with quasi- masochistic human bodies suspended in surreal, theatrical landscapes. Lostutter spent much of the 1970s investigating the bridge between human, animal, and geometric forms in watercolor and oil.
His deft watercolors openly converse with the bodily compositions of Richard Lindner but deviate to engage with questions of gender identity, self-expression, transformation, play, pain, privacy, and fantasy. Costumed figures suggest participation within a larger theatrical production hidden from view. Ambiguous surreal elements...More
