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Thomas Insalaco, Swimmer<\/p><\/div>\n

Paying Homage<\/em>, a large solo exhibition of Thomas Insalaco\u2019s oils at the Oxford Gallery<\/a> here in Rochester is well worth checking out either in person or at least online. I wish James Hall had posted more of the work on the gallery\u2019s website, because it\u2019s all absorbing, and it consistently reflects a mind and heart obsessed with fundamental mysteries. Insalaco is an example of an artist who doesn\u2019t seem to have ever consciously sought commercial success, obsessively exploring imagery and techniques that point toward a sense of what I would call spiritual unknowing\u2014one canvas seems to show you an image of the artist himself as a wanderer with a backpack, lost in an unfamiliar world. Others evoke an aura of darkness dispelled or relieved by moments of grace, images that shine with a grave sense of beauty. Caravaggio\u2019s presence can be felt throughout Insalaco\u2019s work, and yet some paintings glow with a very un-Baroque light of day, or, in one case, probably my favorite image in the show, the electronic light of what\u2019s likely an iPhone held by a young girl whose profile is lit by the touch screen you can\u2019t quite see in her hands. The image has the casual feel of an everyday domestic moment caught with delicacy and love, and even though electronic media seems a menace to the average human attention span, there\u2019s something hopeful in that young face connecting with other people, other worlds, through a tiny illuminated window. You see her gazing into that glow and think, things are going to be all right, after all. <\/em>His female nudes, though, might be the most impressive work here: classic, sober views of the actual human body in all its awkward and imperfect beauty, and these images, which have a poignant gravity that seems ubiquitous in his paintings, make you feel the humble vulnerability of what it means to stand naked, alone and on view. Yet, above that psychological dimension, these nudes do what figurative painting ought to do: make you see what a marvel the human anatomy is, more marvelous than any representation of a particular body will ever quite capture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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