
CITYSCAPES: A SURVEY
New Paintings
1 – 31 October 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, 1 October, 5 – 7pm
Bernarducci Meisel Gallery is pleased to announce Cityscapes, a survey exhibition of cityscape paintngs
by our Gallery artists. The participating artists are Robert Cottingham, Gus Heinze, Charles Jarboe,
Joseph McNamara, Jack Mendenhall, Robert Neffson, Adam Normandin, Raphaella Spence, Nathan Walsh, and introducing Dutch artist Reinier Berendsen.These prolific cityscape painters approach their subject in a different way.
Cottingham focuses on commercial signs, usually of art deco design, and paints them in large scale compositions. Although these paintings measure up to 7 square feet they are barely life size renderings of these monumental signs. Heinze searches for scenes filled with detail and a variety of colors, he crops his compositions very intricately. In addition, the artist is very prolific at painting the engines of locomotives.
Jarboe has recently embarked on a project to paint scenes from the Nation’s capital. Included in this exhibition is his most recent painting entitled Paddle Boats on the Tidal Basin. This springtime view of the Jefferson Monument beyond the tranquil tidal basin is flanked by ethereal cherry blossoms.
McNamara and Normandin both tend to focus on the industrial aspects of the cityscape. McNamara’s new painting East Side Access Tunnel under Construction documents one of the greatest engineering feats of the century – the construction of a subway tunnel. Buried hundreds of feet beneath the city streets we see a hallowed out tunnel dimly lit by overhead lights. There are no workers probably because the shifts are changing since their tools are still strewn about. In contrast, Normandin’s industrial views of the city include colorful freight trains clad with elaborate graffiti. These trains sometimes in motion, sometimes still, chug along on the sunny side of the tracks.
Many of these artists are included in a traveling group exhibition that celebrates 50 years of Photorealism.
“1962-2012, 50 Years of Photorealism” will be on view at the Art Museum of Estonia in Tallin in March
2016. The exhibition has traveled to the Kunsthalle Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany; Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain; Saarlandmuseum in Saarbrücken, Germany; The Birmingham Gallery of Art, Birmingham, England; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, Spain.
For further information or images please contact Marina Press at marina@meiselgallery.com or 212.593.3757. Viewing hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 to 5:30.
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