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We are delighted to announce the opening of Émile Brunet’s solo exhibition, Are They Peasant, with a public reception on Friday, January 16, from 6 to 8 PM at our lower gallery. It will be on view through March 7.

 

In the artist’s own words, “Are They Peasant is a series of Renaissance-inspired portraits of today’s neo-rural characters.” These men and women are less resemblant of agrarian workers toiling in the countryside than of young professionals with remote jobs, picking apples and tending to bees in the after hours. They inhabit their adopted roles with charm and gusto, much like nobility performing pastoral fantasies in Rococo paintings, where earls and countesses disguised themselves as shepherds.