Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still

Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still

The title of Judith Linhares’s current exhibition at PPOW Gallery, The river is moving, The blackbird must be flying, consists of the 12th stanza of Wallace Stevens’s poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (1917). Together, the two short sentences imply, on the one hand, what we observe and, on the other, what we surmise and imagine: “The river moves. The blackbird must be flying.”Linhares’s paintings, comprising just a few elements yet …