If there's anyone that can can get a painter (re-)excited about painting, it's Troy Hagenbart. This fist solo of his in Boston includes work that explores the idea of staging- up, down, and center...these near-stick figures appear in incomplete landscapes, asking the question: "how much information is needed to convey something?"
this etching is a view of the backside of Boston's own Museum of Fine Arts, complete with graffiti..."BONNETS' it says belows the columns (hard to see but it's there)
in this larger work, figures seem to be waving at each other from across dimensions: one in the space of the fiction, one in the reality...
the story continues on the edges...
Troy Hagenbart @ MPG Gallery 450 Harrison Ave. Boston