Alvey Jones
As Time Goes By
Scenes
from Famous Motion Pictures
The
Charge of the Light Brigade
oil
on canvas
12"h x 16"w
by
Alvey Jones
September 13 - October 23, 2005
Opening Reception:
Friday, October 7, 7 - 9 pm
Artist Statement by Alvey Jones:
To paraphrase the writer Susan Sontag: "Movies light up walls,
flicker, and go out; but with (paintings) the image is an object, lightweight,
easy to carry about, accumulate, store." As Time Goes By
is an exhibition of seventeen paintings, assemblages and stained
glass pieces by Ann Arbor artist Alvey Jones based on scenes from
selected motion pictures that may raise doubts about or distort the images
we carry about in our heads.
At first glance they seem to be painted stills from classic movies, but
on closer inspection we may wonder if they are really the way we remember
them. Something seems a little skewed in these depictions.
Does Bogart really face that way in that scene from that movie?
Was Errol Flynn in that version of that film? Is that scene really
in that movie at all?
Though the works do portray scenes from some well-known films, they are
meant to be more than mere reproductions of film stills. The real
subjects are the human concerns that the movies themselves were trying
to address, the deep human drama that each film portrays.
Each piece attempts to isolate, highlight and explore the complexity of
relationships not only among the characters but between viewer and film,
character and plot, storyteller and text.