Parrish Art Museum | Beyond Reality
Paintings and Drawings by Bertrand Meniel
14 October , 2024— 6 April, 2025
Beyond Reality: Paintings and Drawings by Bertrand Meniel is a survey of paintings and drawings by the French photorealist who has been creating paintings of unprecedented detail since 1996. Using a variety of photographs of his chosen subject and advanced digital technologies, Bertrand Meniel (French, b. 1961) manipulates each image to perfection, focusing simultaneously on the foreground and background by combing hundreds of shots on a computer screen before painting them onto canvas.
Beyond Reality: Paintings and Drawings by Bertrand Meniel is curated by Klaus Ottmann, Robert Lehman Curator, with additional support from Kaitlin Halloran, Associate Curator and Publications Manager. The show is on display at the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, New York through April 6th, 2025.
Featured Works
About Bertrand Meniel
Bertrand Meniel (b. 1961, Boulogne Billancourt, France) has embraced digital photographic technology perhaps more so than any other Photorealist. The compositions of his paintings are assembled from multiple photographs and incorporate a tremendous amount of detail. Despite working in fast-drying acrylics, Meniel is able to incorporate more information into each of his paintings than any other Photorealist to date. From a technical standpoint, he is unsurpassed. Meniel’s premiere exhibition in the United States was held at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in 1999, and he continues to exhibit his paintings internationally; he is a self-taught artist.
Location
Parrish Art Museum
For more information about this location please visit their website:
parrishart.org/exhibitions/beyond-reality/