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Paul Dresher has been painting for over sixty years.
While doing so, he has lived through almost every
significant event of the twentieth century. Yet, it
is not those events in-and-of themselves that concern
him. His work deals with how we as humans have
reacted to those experiences and how they have shaped
our vision of each other; our vision of ourselves.
Contradiction, struggle, confusion, - it is the pain of the heart which makes eyes look the way eyes do. It is the isolation of the soul, which makes bodies look the way bodies do. It is the human condition that has found its way onto his canvas - the struggle between the individual, isolated and confused, and the society that isolates the individual. Paul Dresher approaches his work using imagery as metaphor. A hand is not just a hand; the acrobat is both the messenger and the accuser; the victory, not a victory but a stark realization of the cost. |