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Hugh Lifson

I have been working professionally for about 45 years. I studied at Skowhegan, University of Wisconsin, Wesleyan University, Indiana University and Pratt Institute.

Exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, The St. Louis Art Museum, The Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, The San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, The Walker Art Center, Minniapolis, Ohio State, Coe College, Iowa State, Luther Collete and the Ward Nasse Gallery, N.Y.

I juxtapose, through transparencies much in the way of Paul Klee, or as Siegfried Gidion has described in their purpose in his Eternal Present.

For exmaple, I combine a rock formation at Arches National Park, "Balanced Rock" (so-called, perhaps ironically, because of its precarious balance) which functions both as a metonym and as a reification of our current disequalibrium, with images from Goya's Los Desatres de la Querra and Los Proverbios, which uses the metaphor of the personage attempting to achieve balance.

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Balanced Rock and the Rope Breaks Acrylic/Polyolifinics, 4 ft. x 5 ft.
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