{"id":643,"date":"2025-04-09T07:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:04:32","slug":"charlie-roberts-builds-a-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/charlie-roberts-builds-a-metropolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Roberts Builds a &#8220;Metropolis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/165be1560a12201ee6b9f1b49f24ea0c_L.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">Palo Gallery is pleased to announce&nbsp;Charlie Roberts: Metropolis, the artist\u2019s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This latest body of work builds upon the artist\u2019s magical realistic iconography, focusing on scenes of urbanity and the ways his characters move through public spaces. The keystone of this exhibition is his monumental reimaging of Otto Dix\u2019s 1927-1928 painting, Metropolis. Robert\u2019s painting, of the same name, takes direct inspiration from Dix\u2019s seminal triptych, yet Roberts\u2019 takes a different approach to Dix\u2019s immediate socio-political critiques. Using a lighter touch, Roberts\u2019 takes the complex scenes of a thriving metropolis (with clear references to New York) and instead explores the inherent strangeness of human interaction. His figures are often intertwined, yet clearly isolated and wrestling with&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palo Gallery is pleased to announce&nbsp;Charlie Roberts: Metropolis, the artist\u2019s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This latest body of work builds upon the artist\u2019s magical realistic iconography, focusing on scenes of urbanity and the ways his characters move through public spaces. The keystone of this exhibition is his monumental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}