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2010 July Re-Presenting the Nude | curated by John O'Hern 01 July 6 – 8 pm | opening reception thursday evening through July 31 "The body and its senses are our tools for experiencing the world and each other. The ineffable energy that animates the body opens up worlds within and without.” John is Santa Fe Editor of American Art Collector and Western Art Collector magazines and was Executive Director and Curator of the Arnot Art Museum where he originated the innovative biennial exhibitions of contemporary realism, “Re-Presenting Representation.”
some of the artists participating include 2010 August Louisa McElwain | oil of joy 06 August 5 – 7 pm | opening reception friday evening through August 30 A classically trained artist with roots firmly planted in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, McElwain paints with knives and masonry trowels, seeking to follow the rhythm of Nature in a dance to the tempo of the evolving day. It was at the Nera Simi drawing studio in Florence, Italy, in 1973 where McElwain says she learned to see value, the relationship of dark to light, by focusing on the same figure drawing for a minimum of two weeks. Informed by the color theory of Joseph Albers and a masters workshop with Wolf Kahn, the quest for her own voice lead McElwain to synthesize her skills and ideas, resulting in her inimitable approach to landscape painting: a balance between allowing the paint to exist for its own sake, not subordinate to the motif, while expressing something true about her experience of nature.
2010 September Kent Williams | solo exhibition 02 September 6 – 8 pm | opening reception thursday evening through September 30 Primarily a figurative painter, Williams' work explores, in both bold and subtle ways, and often through a suggestion of narrative and woven symbolism, the thread of life that ties us together as human beings. Embracing our virtues while not shying away from our faults, he shows us portraits of ourselves, intense and penetrating.
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2010 October Lynn Boggess | solo exhibition 14 October 6 – 8 pm | opening reception thursday evening through October 31 The landscapes of Lynn Boggess give us a year-round walk in the woods. They provide us with a series of meditations on beauty; they give us an opportunity to consider the importance of Nature to our own experience. They also contain, in small subtle ways, much of the history of landscape painting. Because Boggess has chosen to paint Nature directly, and because he sees it as beautiful and endangered, he draws us into his fierce political vision.Because that vision is so disciplined that the artist presents it for us, without commentary, we may choose for ourselves which memory to recall; which path to take. Marian J. Hollinger, Curator James David Brooks Memorial Gallery Fairmont State College
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Past Exhibitions
2010 June Teresa Elliott + Gordon McConnell | two contemporary views of the west Teresa Elliott attributes a lifelong connection to the pastoral American West for the reverence that inspires her grand portraits of the regal longhorn. The subtlety and confidence with which she paints her large-scale canvases lead many who encounter them to experience surprisingly emotional reactions. Her contemporary view of the West is dramatic in its grandiose scale and overpoweringly engaging in its sentimental spirit and majesty. Gordon McConnell's paintings celebrate the old black and white western film images that inspire him. Particularly the action scenes - flying teams of horses, stagecoaches smothered in illuminated dust, desperate bandits on the run, cowboys, cavalry troopers, fearless indians -wild riders and all. The aura and nostalgia of the old West and the great epic films have been stilled in Gordon's contemporary interpretation of the era he loves. His paintings are romantic tributes to the memorial and mourning of the dreams of the West.
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