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The Tourist, B.B. Nelson, oil on canvas,
20" X 30", 2002
Maine-based painter B.B. Nelson describes herself
as a contemporary realist. Nelson’s work takes a left turn on the
road to hyperrealism, flirts with surrealism, and tips its hat to still-life.
She paints primarily in oils and finds her inspiration in everyday objects—cameras,
tea cups, wrenches—leaving viewers to question their perceptions
of “the ordinary.” Nelson’s “Red Clothespin”
series, which includes The Tourist, places a sequence of familiar objects
in one incongruous situation: hung on a clothesline. For example, Shuttle
Diplomacy features three crisply detailed white shuttlecocks pinned on
a clothesline against a two-dimensional background; in First Edition,
two books, one pinned open and one closed, hang in dull gray space. Paintings
by Nelson are currently being exhibited at the Anchorage Museum of Art
and History; Alpan Gallery in Huntington, New York; Sanville Gallery in
Cumberland, Maryland; and Anderson Gallery in Provo, Utah.
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