Design3: LIFELIKE

Sometimes, you should just pass on a good press release.

LIFELIKE;

The exhibition Lifelike, on view at the Walker Art Center from February 25 to May 27, 2012, invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, often painstakingly rendered, and sometimes surreal.

Lifelike examines a trajectory in art that began in the late 1960s, positioned between Pop and Photorealism, but aligned with neither. Avoiding Pop’s brand-name flashiness and the slick urban scenes of the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments—a paper bag, an eraser, a waiting room, an afternoon nap—as subject matter. The works in the exhibition transform the ordinary into something beguiling, loaded with narrative and metaphor, and imbued with an arresting sense of humanity.

Here are some images of art by artist that will be showing at the Walker Exhibit.

Some of these will be shown at the Exhibit.and others may not. I took time in looking up Walker's listed artist and finding art that was LIFELIKE.