Art & Light Gallery has teamed up with The Anchorage restaurant in Greenville to host an exhibit featuring works by Upstate artist Christopher Rico.
The exhibition is available virtually on the gallery’s website and through Oct. 7 at The Anchorage restaurant at 586 Perry Ave.
Rico uses oversized Asian calligraphy brushes and a gestural, meditative approach to create his paintings, said the gallery in a news release.
“The image of a falling horse has been with me for some time now. So many associations; political, emotional, symbolic, even mythic,” said Rico. “For me, there are myriad interpretations. The horse as symbol for empire, the inversion as a reference to tarot, a nod to surrealism perhaps, an anxiety triggered by the visual situation itself. The job of the artist is to speak of their time; making the personal universal, and if one is very fortunate, enduring. I think these will mean different things to different people, and I don’t think anyone would be wrong.”…