Schuyler Standish Exhibition
At Riverside Art Museum, Thru June 12
By: James Abraham
Check out artist Schuyler Standish’s achievements when he was young—and you’ll be jaw-droppingly surprised to see virtually nothing about art. At age six, he picked up the violin. As a kid, he picked up roles in vintage flicks like Shipmates Forever and a 1939 adaption of that ol‘ English Lit class mistress Wuthering Heights. By age 13, Standish had enrolled at UCLA to study . . . art? Nope. Music. Alright, alright, so the art bug didn’t strike Standish until he was a grown man, specifically when he read a biography on Vincent van Gogh (Lust For Life), but from that point on it was all about painting and drawing, with an eye for landscapes and modernist abstraction. His visual landmarks and touch points range from Paul Cézanne to the Bay Area Figurative painters, from Dali to Picasso, and his mastery of texture and treatment of space have earned his works an honor-worthy place in collections around the world. Locally, this artist’s wares will be on display at the Riverside Art Museum through June 12, and provide further proof that what the Silver Screen lost, the canvas gained.
“Intimate Distance: The Modernism of Schuyler Standish” art exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, (951) 684-7111; www.riversideartmuseum.org. Museum hours 10AM-4PM Mon-Sat. Thru June 12.
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