Anita DeSoto "Cross My Heart"

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Sat 18 Apr ’09, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Mon 20 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Tue 21 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Wed 22 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Thu 23 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Fri 24 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Mon 27 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Tue 28 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Wed 29 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Thu 30 Apr ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Fri 1 May ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Sat 2 May ’09, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Mon 4 May ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Tue 5 May ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
Wed 6 May ’09, 8:30am–5:00pm	Saving
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Where: Milford Galleries Dunedin, 18 Dowling St, Dunedin Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Admission: Free

Website:

www.milfordgalleries.co.nz

Milford Galleries Dunedin invites you to view an exhibition of paintings by Anita DeSoto on display from April 18th - May 6th 2009.

Two remarkable works dominate this exhibition and attest to DeSoto’s arrival as a painter of singular importance. “Neither Here Nor There” (2009) subverts the normal and invests astonishing painterly and sexual tension into the traditions of portraiture.

In “War Widow” (2009) everything is revealed in the martyr’s crucifixion position of upside down and what at first seems to be a narrative only about the body becomes the parable of a widow with her legs wreathed in flowers and ribbons.

These works go where few could and do so with such strength and assurance that the destabilising elements of decadent pleasure and pain become but small contributory components of utterly masterful works.

Meet with the artist at the exhibition opening. Saturday 18th April from 10am - 4pm at Milford Galleries Dunedin.