As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we’re proud to bring you this week’s “Virtual Gallery Walk.” Browse the artwork below and click the image itself to learn more about it, including how to contact the gallery.
Want to see your gallery featured in an upcoming Virtual Gallery Walk? Contact us at [email protected] to advertise today. Don’t delay, as spaces are first come, first served, and availability is limited.
Imagined Realism
Fort Worth
cartermuseum.org
Through January 9, 2022
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is going “all in” on the careers of Stuart Gentling (1942–2006) and Scott Gentling (1942–2011), talented twins who came to Fort Worth at age 5 and spent their lives there creating art long admired in Texas yet little studied elsewhere.
“Imagined Realism” is their first retrospective, encompassing more than 160 sketches, etchings, watercolors, and oil paintings.
This year also sees the establishment of the museum’s Gentling Study Center and research fellowship devoted to them and other underappreciated American artists, as well as a new Gentling book. The driving forces behind this initiative are local arts patron Edward P. Bass, curator/archivist Jonathan Frembling, and curatorial assistant Janelle Montgomery.
Blessed with a steady income via portrait commissions, including one of President George W. Bush, the brothers evolved artistically in the realm of historicism and hyperrealism. Their subject matter included romantic landscapes, 18th-century clothing, natural history, visualizations of the Aztec empire, and, most visibly, the 80-foot mural that adorns Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall.
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How did you get started and then develop your career?
Philippe Gandiol: My grandfather was a businessman and also an artist/bohemian in his own fashion. He had a strong influence on me very early in my life. The seed was planted. I wanted to be an artist. Art classes in high school were exciting. In college along my major, I studied acting and art. I moved from France to California right after that and kept taking college classes including art.
In order to provide for my family, I worked for a large music distribution and production company and for a while art went on the back burner. I met wonderful musicians, music lovers and bit by bit the strong urge to make art once again took over. I started to hang my paintings on my office walls and co-workers bought some of them. I took workshops and classes with professional artists that I admired. When this very successful company suddenly fell apart, I decided to take the leap and be a full-time artist. I never looked back.
At that same time, I started to paint in plein air, and along with figure drawing/painting the combination was a tremendous force in my development and growth. Then it all came along: participation in plein air events, shows in galleries, teaching.
How do you describe success?
When you discover beauty in everything from a dramatic sunset to a back alley, a shiny rose to a broken glass, a radiant smile to a silhouette lost in the fog.
When struggles, failures and rejections are just opportunities to learn, grow and shine.
When painting is a thrill regardless of the outcome, when time stops, and I am one with it all.
When your heart and soul is open to all possibilities, and you find the courage to express it.
When someone says, “Thank you for what you do and bring to the world.”
When you can pay the bills.
It is success!
How do you find inspiration?
At first, I searched hard for inspiration and could barely find it. Then when I started to paint day in and day out, squeezed the oils on the palette and dipped my brush in to bring them to the canvas, inspiration came into play. That is how I found out that the act of painting IS the inspiration. It is everywhere and in everything. Also looking at other artists work, reading about them is always a rich and fabulous experience.
What is the best thing about being an artist?
In my case it is the freedom to find and express oneself. It is to belong to this wonderful artists’ community which is a constant source of inspiration, who you learn from, have fun with and share meaningful moments. Also, when you paint anything anywhere, you are instantly part of it and make deep connections with the people, the place and the time. It is so rich. I am living the dream.
Who do you collect?
I collect artists close to me and who I admire and love: friends, students, members of the tribe.
To see more of Philippe’s work, visit: www.philippegandiol.com
Gustave Moreau: The Fables
Waddesdon Manor
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Through October 17, 2021
waddesdon.org.uk
On view at Waddesdon Manor are major works by Gustave Moreau (1826–1898). In the late 1870s, the great French Symbolist was commissioned by the collector Antony Roux to create 64 watercolors illustrating the 17th-century Fables of Jean de La Fontaine.
The results were exhibited to acclaim, with one commentator enthusing that Moreau “was a jeweler before he was a painter and who, drunk on color, had ground up rubies, sapphires, emeralds, topazes, pearls and mother-of-pearl to make his palette.”
The series was acquired by a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty, but nearly half was lost during the Nazi era, when this Jewish family was persecuted.
Now the surviving 34 watercolors are on display, unseen in public since 1906 and complemented by additional loans from the Musée National Gustave Moreau in Paris.
Waddesdon is a logical place to show these treasures because it was built late in the 19th century by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the style of a 16th-century château to showcase his collection of 18th-century furniture, porcelain, and portraits.
In 1957 the estate was bequeathed to the National Trust, though the Rothschilds still run it through a charitable trust. The project has been organized by Waddesdon curator Juliet Carey, whose accompanying book has been published by Paul Holberton (London).
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Today we bring you a Realism Live faculty feature on contemporary realism master artist Dan Thompson.
Our ultimate goal with Realism Live is to offer every artist, whether they’ve received formal art training or not, an amazing experience to grow their art through a well-rounded, atelier-style art training event that is led by some of today’s most successful artists, and carried out over just three or four days.
Further, we wanted to offer something students will rarely experience in an art school or program … the chance to watch replays of the entire event so they can review the instruction and demonstrations and put their new knowledge and skills into practice immediately. Learn more about Realism Live, the virtual art conference, here.
In 2006 Dan Thompson co-founded the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York. In 2008, he co-founded the Janus Collaborative School of Art in New York. He has also instructed privately at Studio 126 in New York and is on the faculty of the New York Academy of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and Studio Incamminati, in Philadelphia, PA.
Now you have the opportunity to learn from Thompson during the 2nd Annual Realism Live, November 11-13, 2021, with a Beginner’s Day on November 10.
Thompson’s work can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.
Follow him on Instagram @danthompsonart, and sign up at RealismLive.com today to study with him during the largest online training event for realism artists.
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Exhibition of Works by Jeff Bye
Edgewater Gallery
Middlebury, Vermont
October 1–31, 2021
edgewatergallery.co
Edgewater Gallery is exhibiting the latest paintings created by the Brooklyn-based artist Jeff Bye. He has long been fascinated by abandoned buildings, especially their interiors, and particularly theaters.
There is something exciting, he feels, about entering a structure that has been boarded up for decades, breathing the often-stifling air — somewhat reminiscent of a mausoleum — to discover its faded opulence and how it once fulfilled its intended functions.
Beyond the forgotten histories of these places, Bye is intrigued by the varied patinas of their surfaces, by their quiet — sometimes eerie — stillness, and especially by how changes in lighting throughout the day affect the way he sees them and feels their moods.
There is certainly a melancholy within his images of what once was, but is no longer, but also a positive challenge in trying to capture them, if only in paint, before they disappear forever.
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As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we’re proud to bring you this week’s “Virtual Gallery Walk.” Browse the artwork below and click the image itself to learn more about it, including how to contact the gallery.
Want to see your gallery featured in an upcoming Virtual Gallery Walk? Contact us at [email protected] to advertise today. Don’t delay, as spaces are first come, first served, and availability is limited.
Seeds of Tradition
Oil on canvas
28 x 37 in.
Available through the artist
Liliya Muglia has created many pieces in the tradition of Ukrainian Canadian heritage of which this piece was created in January 2021 and symbolically represents the celebration of biblical holidays.
This piece depicts what is familiar to her from her childhood and contains many treasures familiar to a Ukrainian household. Seeds of Tradition is in the spirit of Christmas and illustrates the mystery of the biblical teachings reflected in symbolical representations of light and colour in this tenebrist still life.
Imagery contained includes traditional dishes made of wheat which is considered Ukrainian gold because the land is known for abundant crops and farming. During holidays families gather to thank God and pray for sustenance. They also share food and the wisdom of generations and teach of a united world living in peace and prosperity.
This piece speaks to the Miracle of the Christmas holidays and the anticipation of ancestors meeting with current and future generations as depicted by the lights of the candelabra which is about to be lit and represents the connection between children, parents, grandparents and ancestors.
The seeds of wheat represent unity, while the fruits and berries represent abundance and sustenance. The walnuts are wisdom, and the salt is the essence of life. The candleholder illustrates the anticipation of light and the small family Icon on the wall decorated with a traditional Ukrainian towel symbolizes prayer.
This piece is completed in oil on canvas in a tenebrist style.
Liliya’s other works are available through the artist at: www.muglia-art.com. You can also follow her on Instagram @Muglia.art and Facebook www.facebook.com/liliya.vovk.
Liliya’s work is currently on display at the Canadian Ukrainian Consulate and KUMF Gallery where she participates in ongoing shows. Liliya is also represented by Gallea Gallery online exhibition where several pieces are currently on display www.gallea.ca/en/artists/liliya-muglia.
Liliya resides in Toronto, Canada and works from her studio located at the Academy of Realist Art, Columbus Centre, Studio #3, 908 Lawrence Ave W., Toronto, Ontario, M6A 1C3 C: 416-434-9442.
Lori Putnam: Close to Home
LeQuire Gallery
Nashville
Through December 31, 2021
lequiregallery.com
LeQuire Gallery will soon exhibit approximately two dozen paintings created by Tennessee native Lori Putnam over the last two years. When the pandemic made her energetic travel schedule of teaching and lecturing impossible, the artist turned to something “dear to my heart” — the four distinct seasons with which Tennessee is blessed.
Looking closely at the abundant flora and fauna of her region, and mindful that this is the 225th anniversary of Tennessee’s statehood, Putnam applied her impressionistic eye to winter, spring, summer, and autumn, each represented by five or six pieces ranging in size from 8 x 10 inches to 36 x 48 inches.
Born in Nashville and now living 40 miles to its west, Putnam grew up with no neighbors in sight, a fact she credits for sparking her creativity through many hours entertaining herself. Today she paints small to medium works in plein air and larger compositions back in the studio, mindful of the essential and invigorating connection between the two.
Having painted and taught in nearly 20 countries, Putnam knows she will eventually get back on the road. Her activities will probably include teaching at the Plein Air Convention & Expo (as she has done for six years), and representing Art Ambassador for a Colorful World, an internationally active organization founded by fellow artist Kevin Macpherson to help children and adults express their vision of the world through art.
Putnam and her colleagues believe that children who make art develop life skills such as cooperation, confidence, and leadership, and that art provides a colorful retreat from everyday life.
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Figurativas & 15th Annual International ARC Salon
Museu Europeu d’Art Modern Barcelona
meam.es and artrenewal.org
Through December 12, 2021
Once again, two leading forces for good in the field of international contemporary realist art will converge in Barcelona this autumn. On October 8, the winners of the Museu Europeu d’Art Modern’s latest Figurativas competition in painting and sculpture will be announced as they are unveiled to the public. On that same evening, 81 finalist works from the 15th ARC International Salon, organized by the American-based Art Renewal Center, will go on view within the museum.
“Figurativas” is held every two years; the 2021 jury consisted of Emma Hopkins, Antonio López, Jeremy Mann, Konstantinos Kyrtis, Tomas Paredes, Jose Enrique González, Jordi Diaz Alamà, and MEAM founder Jose Manuel Infiesta.
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