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Mantequilla
Painting

2002
60 x 93 in. (152.4 x 236.22 cm)

Fred Stonehouse (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1960 - )

Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Acrylic on canvas
Credit Line: Gift of the Artist and Koplin del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA, with additional support from the Museum's Collection Committee, in honor of the San Jose Museum of Art's 35th Anniversary
Accession Number: 2003.26

Exhibition


It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years, October 3, 2004 - February 13, 2005, New Wing, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, First Floor, San José Museum of Art.

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It's About Time: Celebrating 35 Years (2004-2005)

In a style that combines elements of Latin-American folk art, hand-painted signs, and produce-crate labels, Fred Stonehouse humorously explores the receta oculto (secret recipe) of alchemy—turning base metals into gold. In Mantequilla, which means butter, Stonehouse uses the process of turning cream into butter as a metaphor for the kind of alchemy that artists practice—turning ordinary materials like canvas and paint into art. It is also a bit of an inside pun as Stonehouse hails from Wisconsin, America’s dairy land. According to Stonehouse, at the heart of is “the desire for magic and love-of-the-absurd in an age where, sadly, magic is lacking and the absurd has worked its way onto the stage of war and politics.”

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