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Sebastian Gladstone Gallery is thrilled to present, John of Patmos, a new series of six oil paintings by Chad Murray. The work deals with historical painting as a framework for uncertainty, taking the apocalyptic imagery of The Book of Revelation and considering how it has been shaped by artistic interpretation over time. This is not a religious exhibition, but a look at how familiar images persist, how they shift in meaning, and how painting itself functions as a record of those shifts.
Painters have returned to these scenes for centuries. John Martin, J.M.W. Turner, and Thomas Cole built elaborate worlds from The Book of Revelation’s imagery, emphasizing grandeur and finality. Their paintings reflected a 19th-century sense of drama, tying biblical events to anxieties of empire and industry. Earlier depictions, such as medieval manuscripts, Renaissance altarpieces, and Baroque engravings had their own purposes, reinforcing doctrine, moral instruction, or civic power. Even as…
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Sebastian Gladstone Gallery is thrilled to present, John of Patmos, a new series of six oil paintings by Chad Murray. The work deals with historical painting as a framework for uncertainty, taking the apocalyptic imagery of The Book of Revelation and considering how it has been shaped by artistic interpretation over time. This is not a religious exhibition, but a look at how familiar images persist, how they shift in meaning, and how painting itself functions as a record of those shifts.
Painters have returned to these scenes for centuries. John Martin, J.M.W. Turner, and Thomas Cole built elaborate worlds from The Book of Revelation’s imagery, emphasizing grandeur and finality. Their paintings reflected a 19th-century sense of drama, tying biblical events to anxieties of empire and industry. Earlier depictions, such as medieval manuscripts, Renaissance altarpieces, and Baroque engravings had their own purposes, reinforcing doctrine, moral instruction, or civic power. Even as…
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