13-A
Oil on Sized Canvas
48" x 60" x 1.25"

13-A

Oil on Sized Canvas
48" x 60" x 1.25"

From Below
Oil on Sized Canvas
48" x 60" x 1.25"

From Below

Oil on Sized Canvas
48" x 60" x 1.25"

Charles Imbro

The 2009 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition - Collective Exhibition
August 14 - September 2, 2009

Reception: Thursday August 20, 2009 6-8 PM

Press Release

In their exquisitely clean lines, delightful patterns and ebullient colors, Charles Imbro’s paintings of American transportation infrastructure evoke WPA posters. A native Brooklynite, now based in New Jersey, Imbro updates the bright palette and retro forms of sun-splashed bridges, trains and highways with elements of fantasy and magical realism. He thus imbues those monuments to industry with an appropriately fanciful grandeur. By creating surprisingly rhythmic tonal sequences and intricate networks of geometric forms, Charles Imbro offers a vision of industry and infrastructure as the net securing and foundation supporting America’s dreamscapes.

Artist Statement

As a boy I was always amazed at the lengths men went to in allowing themselves freedom of movement. I stood then, as I do now, in inscrutable childlike awe of the city. If you've ever had a dream so real, the experience so overpowering that you wanted to cry out, but couldn't, feeling instead the paralysis of having been emotionally checkmated and being, for the moment at least, willing to simply resign yourself and let the astonishment and amazement wash over you - then you know the feeling. I regard it as an apt response to the power of reason. It’s been my intent to exemplify that rapture in my paintings. I choose to embrace, rather than scorn, those qualities and achievements that sustain us as a species. I find beauty — even sublimity - in what man does for his own benefit.

Invitation to the exhibition | View the catalog page

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