Falon Stutzman: The End of a Long Line

Falon Stutzman’s paintings immerse us in the late eighteenth century as a kind of fever dream wherein lush fabrics and pageantry abound. About Drawing on the pastel silks and lyrical brushwork of Gainsborough and the rococo tradition, Stutzman stages a dysfunctional family portrait: brothers brawling on lawns, mothers upended in their corsets, husbands choking on roast beef. Excess is everywhere, and so is a sense of precariousness it masks. Painting