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Gallery Concept

Gallery Concept (4) - Michael Downs

Details

Year 2005
Artist(s) Michael Downs
Type Mural
Medium Acrylic paint on dibond panels over treated wood supports
Site Location North exterior wall of the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery (MAG) 4525-47A Ave

Description

Incorporating the concept of trompe l'oeil (French for "deceive the eye"), "Gallery Concept" transforms an ordinary exterior wall into a vivid three dimensional street scene that features an array of art works, masterfully reproduced, creating the illusion that the viewer is actually looking through the windows of a world-class gallery and dress shop. Or, through the walls of the Red Deer Museum and Gallery.

Painted mural of a framed painting of a slim woman standing beside a round table in a long black evening dress.
Painted mural of a framed painting of a woman and man sitting at a table on bench seats in early century attire.
Painted mural of a painting of a little girl in a straw hat and blue dress.
Painted mural of a framed paiting of a women in black with a black scarf and black hat.
Painted mural of dresses hanging in a store front window.
Paited mural on the side of a buidling of an apartment window with white curtains and a cat sittin on the window ledge.
Side view of a building with a painted mural of store display windows and apartment windows above.
Street view of a building with a painted mural of store front shop windows with apartment windows above.
Painted mural on an exterior wall of a building that depicts a store front with apartment windows above.

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