Dennis Clive

Acquired directly from the artist

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There are scattered light surface accretions. Otherwise there are no apparent condition problems with this work.
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"Dennis Clive mixes Pop and Funk sensibilities with European portrait miniatures. His brightly colored ceramic cars and planes and other paraphernalia recall a child's fascination with build-it-yourself models while at the same time referencing the cultural memory of a product of the baby boom generation: the specter of WWII and the promise of the automobile. Yet the scale he works in, his sensitivity to his craft, and the attention to detail, can't help but remind the viewer of portraits by the 17th century miniaturists such as Alexander and Samuel Cooper. It is as if these machines are presented to us so as to allow us to experience the magic of the real thing even in its absence." 

- Allan Stone