Rochester Gallery Exhibits 'Paint Made Flesh'

This exhibition brings together 34 powerful American and European works, all created since the 1950s, that explore the biological, psychological or spiritual volatility of the human figure.

The works, by such painters as Georg Baselitz, Hyman Bloom, Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, Jenny Saville and Julian Schnabel, employ a wide range of painterly effects to suggest the carnal properties of human flesh, as well as its metaphorical significance. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester is one of only two tour stops for this show.

The picture shows Arnaldo Roche-Rabell. We Have to Eat, 1986. Oil on canvas, 84 x 60 in. Collection of Jack Kubiliun. © Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, courtesy of Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan. -- mag.rochester.edu