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Peter
Woytuk
Blackbird
on Basket, 2007
Bascove
Macomb's
Dam Bridge
Robert
Andrew Parker
London, 2007 
Alexander
Liberman
Air, 1962
Billy
Martin
Black
Ghost, 2007
Yuri
Vaschenko
Landscape
III, 2006
Michael
Steiner
The
Forest is Holy, 2005
Chris
Armstrong
Grassland, 2007
Eric
Sloane
Warren,
Connecticut 1980
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EXHIBIT | Group
Exhibition
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press
release
KENT, CONNECTICUT - THE MORRISON GALLERY TO
HOST GROUP EXHIBITION JANUARY 19TH - MARCH 16TH, 2008
An exhibition featuring works by six internationally
known artists opens January 19th at The Morrison Gallery:
8 Old Barn Road, Kent, CT 06757. The exhibition includes
works by Chris Armstrong,
Bascove, Alexander
Liberman, Billy Martin,
Robert Andrew Parker,
Eric Sloane, Michael
Steiner, Yuri Vaschenko
and Peter Woytuk.
Chris Armstrong studied
painting and art history in Florence, Italy before receiving
his BA from
Bucknell University. After
graduation,
Chris went on to receive his MFA from NYU where he won the
school's MVP award and exhibited at Washington Square East Galleries.
Frederick G. Dillen, author of Hero and Fool, says of the
artist: "Armstrong
paints with the grace and confidence of considerable training
and well-distilled purpose. Armstrong's pictures are most agreeable
to look at, but he has, in addition, both a conscience and
a nervously weird eye on the world and its people... Armstrong
has a unique and dangerously honest vision, and he renders
it
with disarming precision."
Bascove
is well known for her stunning paintings of bridges.
An exhibit of her bridge paintings at The Uptown Gallery
in Manhattan earned her a feature article in The New
York Times. She has had more than 30 one-person shows
in New York City and Paris.
Alexander Liberman,
born in 1912 in Kiev, Russia, became an academic and post-Impressionist
painter in Europe before moving to the United
States in 1941. From then on he painted and sculpted in abstract
styles, often using the circle, which he asserted was the ideal
shape. His sculptures and paintings are in many collections
including the Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Corcoran,
Hirshhorn
Museum & Sculpture Garden, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
the Tate Gallery in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art.
Billy Martin, born in 1963 in New York City,
is better known for his work as a musician and composer in the
bands, Medeski
Martin & Wood and The Lounge Lizards.
Billy Martin has held an interest in visual art since childhood
and his self-expression has found many mediums; Martin's music
led him to travel widely and this encouraged him
to create under the
influence of various cultures - most notably, African, Oceanic and Brazilian.
Like his music, most of his drawings stem from chance and an improvisational
style. Through this technique he has created iconic images (the famous MMW
logo), multimedia collages and his own style of bird portraits.
Robert Andrew Parker has been a force in
contemporary American painting since the 1950s. His
work can be found in the collections of many major museums,
including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and
The Morgan Library & Museum. Parker's work has appeared
in magazines such as The New Yorker and he illustrated
the acclaimed 1999 edition of Stendhal's, The Charterhouse
of Parma, and the Ballet of the Elephants
by Leda Schubert.
Eric Sloane
painted for more than 60 years until his death at the
age of 80 in 1985. He is perhaps best known for his
iconic barn paintings, but he also was a master of sky
paintings, landscapes, aviation art and other genres.
His paintings have made a strong contribution to our
awareness of the early American way of life.
Michael Steiner
has been exhibiting since 1962, when he was eighteen.
Over the years, his sculpture has evolved from an early
exploration of minimal “primary structures”
to an intensive exploration of the legacy of Cubist
construction. In the last decade, Steiner has produced
some of his most original, challenging works: A series
of increasingly transparent, complex structures in steel,
that most recently, posed fascinating questions about
the relationship between space and solids, about the
tension between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional,
about our perceptions about repetition and symmetry,
to name but a few.
Yuri Vaschenko
was born in Moscow in 1941 and graduated from the Graphic
Art Department of Lenin Education College. His painting
career began in Moscow and he began showing his art
outside Russia in the 1990s and has exhibited at Nuvolanera
S. Croce, Gallery II, Gabbiano and Rosso Tiziano Arte
in Italy. His work is in the collections of numerous
museums and private collections in the U.S. and Europe.
Peter Woytuk
has been acclaimed "the greatest animal sculptor
of the Western world in the closing years of the 20th
century." Such is the opinion of The International
Herald Tribune of sculptor Peter Woytuk, formerly of
Kent and now working in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Thailand.
He earned his fame by sculpting various forms of animals,
birds in particular, in highly original styles that
explore a unique sense of volume and suspended motion.
The MORRISONGALLERY
8 Old Barn Road
Kent, Connecticut 06757
860.927.4501
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