NEO RAUCH / AT THE WELL

The richly textured, fantastically seductive paintings of German artist Neo Rauch are marked by a distinctive Pop-Surrealist-Social Realist style, as described by The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith in 2002. Incorporating disjunctive references to dispar ate eras, techniques, and aesthetics, they evoke avant-garde theater stage sets from an earlier timeboth buoyant and tamped down, comic and earnest. In many of his compositions, human figures engaged in manual labor or indeterminable tasks work against backdrop s of mundane a...[Read more]