On view in-person: November 12, 2021–February 3, 2022
Carl Dobsky: Digression and Progression lecture recording available here.

Carl Dobsky’s oil paintings of the savage arena of crude and cruel human behavior are coming to the Kwan Fong Gallery in November. Dobsky is a legendary figure in the representational art scene, held in awe by his peers who view him as a visionary virtuoso and technical master of pencil and paint, whose capable hands equal the skill of the old masters. His vivid and violent canvases are compositions of bourgeois men and women caught in consumerist dramas of degradation, in episodes snatched from life in the contemporary society of the spectacle. They loot wantonly, fighting for food, in all-out aggro over avocados, shrieking over shopping. They snort careless lines of coke while a wildfire conflagration burns behind them and shoot selfies against the amber glow. They gibber over the flood.

See the images featured in the exhibit here. Related article, “The Angelo Imagination,” American Art Collector, Oct. 2021. The Echo article on the exhibition by Karly Kiefer can be found here.

COVID-19 Attendance Information: This exhibit is open by appointment only, please contact gallery@callutheran.edu or 805-493-3697 to schedule a viewing. All guests must wear masks indoors and must fill out a Daily Health Check Form before entering campus.

Image: Carl Dobsky, Taken By Storm, Oil on Linen, 72″ x 96″, courtesy of the artist.

This exhibition and programming was sponsored by the Cal Lutheran University Visual Arts Department.