The relationship between art and literature. The CCA Wattis Institute chose this classical field of investigation to commission 14 contemporary artists to create paintings, featured now at the exhibition Painting Between The Lines. The displayed artworks are inspired on descriptions of paintings in historical and contemporary novels, focusing on the artist’s point of view about storytelling, literature and writing, as expressions of individual thought. The exhibition aims also to show the contemporaneity of the medium of painting, with participating artists mainly from Europe and US.
Painting Between The Lines
October 4 – December 17, 2011
CCA Wattis Institute
San Francisco CA
www.wattis.org
Photo courtesy Wattis CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.