A Strange Day at the Japanese Pancake House, Watercolor, 22”x30”

Greg McLemore, Adjunct III in the Department of Art + Design, will be exhibiting his work, Décadent, at the Gormely Gallery at the Notre Dame of Maryland.

These paintings range in subject from the once glorious but now dilapidated buildings of Baltimore City to the architecture and complex history of Nagasaki, Japan. Strange and alienated figures wander the streets and ghosts are both seen and felt. Though very much formed in the 21st Century, much of this work is influenced by the 19th-century Décadent movement, whose artists and writers were known to give florid levels of description in their scenery, embrace perversion, and indulge in all things exotic. They were at ease shifting be-tween reality and more irrational ideas. These paintings have a slightly different sensibility, but do fit into the Decadent lineage.

Notre Dame University of Maryland, Gormely Gallery.
The opening reception will be Saturday, September 8th, from 4-6pm.
Gormley Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of Fourier Hall on the corner of N. Charles St. and Homeland Ave. Décadent will remain on view from September 4 through October 12, 2018.