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ON VIEW

Luke Osborn

Face the Music

November 26, 2024 – January 4, 2025

Plato is excited to host Face the Music, Luke Osborn’s solo exhibition featuring mixed media paintings
and drawings unified by the theme of music and exploring the power of collective experiences. The show
will open at our lower gallery with a public reception on November 26th, from 6-8pm.


For six days they stood on their rooftops and watched, and down from the mountains came music. These
are lines from Luke Osborn’s poem inspired by the painting which he eventually titled with them. The key
leitmotifs of this exhibition – music and sound – are manifested throughout the show: not only in the
narratives – a crowd whistling to the rain, an audience gathered in an auditorium, a drinking party – but
also in the syncopated colors, rhythmically repeated shapes, speech bubbles and actual musical notes,
literal or abstracted.

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Luke Osborn

Face the Music, 2024

oil and paper collage on canvas

60 x 72 in.

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Luke Osborn

Right of Passage, 2024

oil and paper collage on canvas

72 x 60 in.

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Luke Osborn

Whistle Towards the Rain, 2024

oil, watercolor, and paper collage on canvas

48 x 82 in.

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Luke Osborn

For six days they stood on their rooftops and watched,
and down from the mountains came music, 2024

oil and paper collage on canvas

60 x 66 in.

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Luke Osborn

Broken Bone Birthday Party, 2024

oil and paper collage on canvas

56 x 60 in.

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Luke Osborn

We've Never Dealt with this Before, 2024

oil and paper collage on canvas

60 x 50 in.

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Luke Osborn

Chord, 2024

watercolor on paper

20 x 26 in.

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Luke Osborn

Star Power, 2024

colored pencil on paper

8 x 11 in.

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Luke Osborn

Whistle, 2024

colored pencil on paper

11 x 8 in.

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