Gallery Henoch Hosts Eric Wert, Bernardino Luino

Gallery Henoch is proud to represent the paintings by Eric Wert, executed with a precise hyper-real hand, Wert evokes a contemporary-rococo trend in painting. His highly stylized still lifes are activated by complex pattern, strong light and rich color.

Wert retains an unusual ability to infuse his panels with a dynamic visual energy. His painting HOBNAIL AND ROSES is akin to a tightly wound orchestra breaking into a bombastic verse of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

In our current show, APPETITE, Wert contributes the most lavish cabbage one might ever set eyes on. The painting, ROUGHAGE, is exquisitely rendered with sharp light highlighting the crisp foliage of the vegetable.

It is a visual delight.

Eric Wert was trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and continued his work at Northwestern University where he received in Masters in 2001.

Wert has shown throughout the United States and in Europe. He is represented in the public collections of the Illinois State Museum and the New Britain Museum of American Art. Wert was born in Portland, Oregon in 1976.

One theme of our current show assembles works with a distinct dialogue about food. We have numerous painters and a sculptor in the show who should satiate appetites for a range of artistic styles.

Bernardino Luino's piece STANDING CHEF includes a culinary artist who stands before a lone, empty table...a blank canvas perhaps.

A new painting by Janet Rickus, RELATED BOWLS, gives a sense of the tools to be used - bowls of varying shapes and types are placed at the ready. Further, notice the four smaller vessels in this picture all appear to be variations of the two largest bowls.

Lastly, in this e-mail, we pair the above works with the lush BOTANICAL GARDEN POOL I, by John Evans, as a garden from which our fruits and vegetables are possibly sourced. Its over all highlights of color excite the imagination and leave room for additional daydreaming.