Anguish

A solo exhibition of new paintings by Justin Craun titled “Anguish”. Craun creates uncanny environments where receding form and vibratory color counteract familiar notions of painterly composition. The work in the show consists mainly of four large triptychs that combine figurative painting with ... Read more

A solo exhibition of new paintings by Justin Craun titled “Anguish”. Craun creates uncanny environments where receding form and vibratory color counteract familiar notions of painterly composition. The work in the show consists mainly of four large triptychs that combine figurative painting with abstraction.

“Anguish” explores the division between interior and exterior reality. In the artists words: “If we are to assume, as painting history teaches us, that abstract pictures are the articulation of unnamable internal states and that portraiture is, in effect, the articulation of perceivable concrete reality, then by combining the two we seem to suggest a snapshot of our possible shared narrative reality.”