Summer Exhitibit to Highlight Favorites
Through August 28th, 2007
| Please join us for a unique exhibit highlighting select works from the past three years. LeQuire Gallery has seen many fine examples of painting, drawing and sculpture in our twelve exhibits to date. All were wonderful pieces; however, in each exhibit there are always a few that are extraordinary. We compiled a list of the most talked about works from these events and then contacted each artist regarding availability. We are thrilled to bring many of these special pieces back to the forefront. As expected, a few of our favorites are no longer available. In this case, we asked the artist to provide us with something new and just as remarkable. They all delivered. Among the mix are the mysterious landscape paintings of Ashley Wiltshire. Ashley lives in Birmingham and exhibited with us in early 2005. While there are literally millions of landscape paintings in the world, few capture the place and time of day Wilshire continues to master. Her representational paintings convey nature as it is happening – a storm in the distance as it moves across a dark sky or a heavy mist that hovers over a Maine sunset. Japanese serigraph artist, Masaaki Tanaka made a special trip to the United States in the fall of 2004 to be present for his exhibit at LeQuire Gallery. For ten years – 1982-1991 his works were featured each week on the cover of Japan’s famous weekly magazine, “Shukan Shincho”, which has a circulation of well over one-half million. His works have been exhibited in New York, Boston, Chicago Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Dallas. We are delighted to show a superior example of his talent in a 3 ft x 6ft. print of Yosemite Forest in which Tanaka includes 24 karat gold. Our stable of figurative artists represents a wealth of talent from across the country. Juliette Aristides is a major force behind this country’s atelier movement. Her figurative drawing of PiPi Kneeling is a prime example of reductive drawing and is used to illustrate that process in Aristides’ new book: Classical Drawing Atelier. The drawing starts with an entirely toned ground. The artist proceeds by erasing out the lights rather than drawing in the darks. It is called “reductive drawing” because it is a process of reducing rather than adding value. PiPi Kneeling will be on view for this exhibit along with the classical dancers of Ron A. Cheek, the surrealistic paintings of Brody Vincent, the richly colored abstract figurative works of Lou Copeland and the astounding sculpture of Preston Jackson. Jackson is a professor of sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. One of our most popular exhibits at LeQuire Gallery was the Russian Collection that featured 5 members of Russia’s Union of Artists. We look forward to revisiting Soskiyev’s lamb sculpture as well as his bronze Horseman which sits atop a three-foot tall bronze pole. Many patrons visited LeQuire Gallery twice to see the paintings of Magrez Kelekhseav. Fortunately, we’re afforded another look at the stunning Untitled Floral in which the painter achieves an incredible 3-D effect on canvas by setting an impasto floral still life in the foreground of a muted landscape. Other requests to see more of the urban landscapes of Todd Gordon, the enameled wall sculptures of Ben Caldwell and the woodcut tiled eyes of Jim Sherraden have been fulfilled. |
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