Sellenrad paintings open at DVAA

NARROWSBURG, NY — “Paintings,” a show by Milanville artist Johan Sellenraad, opens on Saturday, January 28 at the Delaware Arts Center Gallery at 37 Main Street. There will be an opening reception from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Sellenraad, who has had a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum and has had work in numerous museums and galleries, is a pictorial painter who sees possibilities for paintings in his everyday surroundings. Objects become still-lifes, which can become interiors, sometimes complete with figures and surrounding landscapes. The fact that all these visual categories—still-lifes, interiors, figures and landscape—have been around for thousands of years makes painting all the more challenging to Sellenraad. “In a sense, every painting has to stand up against this massive body of representational art from the past. So, ideas for paintings come from your surroundings as well as the history of art.”

The exhibit will run through February 17.

For more information call 845/252-7576.