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Gary Monroe
"Monroe’s drawings present a spiritual
practice filtered through the whole history of Western Art." -Eleanor
Heartney, Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress.
"At first glance, Gary Monroe’s paintings and drawings might look like Baroque-era religious works (his subjects wear flowing clothes and are attended by angels and saints). But then you realize his figures are carrying snakes. They’re Appalachian snake handlers, the X-gamers of American religion, and they are the focus of works that are otherwise modeled after such Baroque masters as Titian, Caravaggio and Bronzino. Monroe’s works are an ingenious juxtaposition of high and low culture, and in that respect they have something to say about the nature of religious passion." -David Maddox, Nashville Scene Best of 2007 issue
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read Art in America review of Gary's show at CUE Foundation in NYC
 
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Title:
Anointing of Miss Hopi
Medium:
Chalk and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
60 x 48 inches
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Title:
Shorty Takes Up Serpents
Medium:
Chalk and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
60 x 48 inches
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Title:
Meeting at Brush Arbor
Medium:
Chalk and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
60 x 48 inches
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Title:
The Assault of Sister Glenda Darlene Collins of Scottsboro, AL
Medium:
Chalk and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
59 x 59 inches
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Gary Monroe was
born in Enterprise, AL, in 1956. He attended Western Kentucky
University in Bowling Green, KY, from 1975-1978. In the eighties,
Monroe was an active member of the 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX,
and frequently exhibited at various galleries and institutions
throughout Texas. After several years as a predominately abstract
artist and at mid-career, Monroe began a group of figurative drawings
based on Southern narratives, of which the subject of Appalachian
Serpent Handlers became the focus. This body of work has been
exhibited throughout the southeastern U.S. In 2006 he exhibited
in his first solo show in New York City at the CUE Foundation.
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