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GBGLA is pleased to present the gallery's fourth solo exhibition of paintings by Wes Hempel. The exhibition features the artist's recent oil paintings and continues through November 14th.

Wes Hempel takes assumed narratives of masculinity and myth and deftly recontextualizes them - supple flesh, classical architectural forms, and pastoral landscapes take on new meaning under Hempel’s virtuosic brush strokes.  By setting psychologically acute portraits of modern-day men against backdrops appropriated from such disparate sources as neoclassical history painting and Dutch golden age …