Saturday, January 15, 2011
The Lay of the Land II
The Loft Galeria is very pleased to present its second annual exhibition of landscape paintings. This year we will be including beautiful paintings by artists who are new to the gallery, but not new to appreciators of fine art. Jorge Monroy, Helmut Bournemann , Dean Gazeley and Michael Drury have each exhibited their works far and wide. Monroy is a highly regarded watercolorist living in Guadalajara who is regularly featured in El Informador. Dean Gazeley, practicing his art from the lovely colonial city of Guanajuato where he also teaches, has had a number if important exhibitions throughout Mexico and Helmut Bournemann has been painting his entire lifetime and has shown from Chile to Canada. Michael Drury reflects the classic passion of the plein aire painter who revisits beloved landscapes from California, Nevada, Michigan and Ireland over and over, each time finding a new interpretation reflecting the light and terrain of a time and a place.
No less of a personality than Frank Lloyd Wright observed: "No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other." He, of course, was commenting on humankind's seeming need to overpower its surroundings, rather than becoming one with them and reveling in our proper and sublime relationship to nature.
Landscape painting evolved and developed over time. The landscape was generally utilized as a point of reference for a particular subject in a painting, but has since become both the focus and the subject, in and of itself.
Along with gallery favorites Carlos Vargas Pons, Meg Munro, Nicola Wheston, Nicole Strasburg and others, The Loft Galeria seeks to broaden the conversation by once again going against the grain of the latest trends in art. The artists represented in this exhibition of new and selected works seek to show us the simple beauty of that which lies before us: The land, the sky, the sea and our relationship to the infinite life within them all.
No less of a personality than Frank Lloyd Wright observed: "No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other." He, of course, was commenting on humankind's seeming need to overpower its surroundings, rather than becoming one with them and reveling in our proper and sublime relationship to nature.
Landscape painting evolved and developed over time. The landscape was generally utilized as a point of reference for a particular subject in a painting, but has since become both the focus and the subject, in and of itself.
Along with gallery favorites Carlos Vargas Pons, Meg Munro, Nicola Wheston, Nicole Strasburg and others, The Loft Galeria seeks to broaden the conversation by once again going against the grain of the latest trends in art. The artists represented in this exhibition of new and selected works seek to show us the simple beauty of that which lies before us: The land, the sky, the sea and our relationship to the infinite life within them all.
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