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WANDERING EYES Dr. Carol Ockman on the vision and voyages of Paul Gauguin.
WITH GAUGUIN: VOYAGE TO PARADISE, the
latest installment of the Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series at Selby Gardens, visitors are transported to a tropical Tahitian wonderland, complete with Polynesian plantscapes, a fishing village of bamboo huts and coconut palms, looming tikis in the fern garden, hand-carved masks on the rainforest rock wall and dugout canoes overflowing with orchids in the Conservatory. And in the Payne Mansion, through original prints, woodcuts and lithographs, Selby Gardens celebrates the wandering French post-impressionist painter who inspired it all—Paul Gauguin. SRQ sat down with Selby Gardens Curator-at-Large Dr. Carol Ockman to talk the politics of portraiture, radical color and the myth of Gauguin. WRITTEN BY PHIL LEDERER | PHOTOGRAPHY BY WYATT KOSTYGAN
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