530 Burns Gallery recently announced “2020 Vision,” a solo exhibition by Linda Richichi opening January 24, 2020, featuring oil and pastel paintings.

From the Gallery:

Richichi’s newest body of work explores an openness to her muse, which she defines as an unseen inner force that moves her to paint in an evolutionary way. Until preparing for this exhibition, she thought her relationship with her muse was private and personal. She now reveals a look into the events that inspired this work.

Richichi often asks herself a question prior to painting: What would be good for me to see or know that I can’t see yet? An answer comes either in the painting itself or during the drawing of a preparatory sketch beforehand. In her painting, “The Connection,” the answer came in a moment of clarity when she painted a light-filled stripe that indicated a brighter space of existence.

Though her paintings appear to be physical, idyllic landscapes or skyscapes, Richichi has sought to capture the moment when an opening appears in the veil between the seen and unseen worlds, inspiring a fresh perspective. A moment like this, preserved in paint, reminds the viewer that revelation can come to anyone, although it’s fleeting and precious.

Richichi then wondered if she should add such a stripe to more of her paintings, including a few that she had already finished. Returning to her studio the next morning a bit earlier than usual, she was startled by what she saw. Several paintings had vertical, sunlit stripes, each in an appropriate place on the painting. Was her muse helping her to see the pieces anew by allowing strips of light from nearby windows to shine through the blinds, illuminating each painting with a perfect vertical line? Or was it just an amazing coincidence?

Regardless, Richichi’s talent has led her to national acclaim. Gallery owner Nikki Sedacca says, “Linda’s recent appointment to Signature Status in the Pastel Society of America makes representing her more exciting than ever. Her talent is limitless.”

The ethereal, profound, and transformative power of painting and more are explored in this exhibition. The new paintings add another layer of complexity to Linda Richichi, who is known for capturing color and energy when painting en plein air.

“2020 Vision” runs from January 24 through February 5, 2020, at 530 Burns Gallery in Sarasota, Florida. A meet the artist Opening Reception will be held on Friday, January 24, from 6 to 9 p.m. For more information about the pieces that will be featured in the show, or to learn more about the gallery and Linda Richichi, visit www.530burnsgallery.com.

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“Forever Yours” is an ongoing series of oil paintings by Geoffrey Gersten, on view at Bonner David Galleries (Scottsdale).

From the gallery:

In this show Geoffrey Gersten decided to embark on a nostalgic journey toward a past that, in the American culture, has been idealized through motion pictures and literature, as well as iconic photographs. He explains: “I had become so wrapped up in these moments that it was crushing to think that those particles of time, so meaningful when they happened, were now gone, and had become lost scraps in this bin of photos. I picked up a little 2 x 4 inch photograph. It was the picture of a girl, standing on her porch, smiling. She was wearing pants, and a 1950s bikini top, though these and all things were only peripheral to her expression. There she was, standing upright, but her smile made her seem as if she were poised rather forward, right into your mind, right into your psyche, so much so that I had to join in smiling myself. I flipped the picture over and saw across the back, scrawled in fading bluish ink, “Forever Yours, Charlotte.”

This was the moment when Gersten conceived the Forever Yours collection. “With this new idea, with Charlotte and all my collected vintage photos and old moments ready to be reborn in oil on canvas, I set forth on this endeavor of re-creation and self-regeneration.” Geoffrey Gersten found both contentment and meaning for this new purpose.
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“Forever Yours” is an ongoing series of oil paintings inspired by and based on unique, interesting, and meaningful photographs including Kodachromes, Ektachromes, and Polaroids from 1900 to 1969.

The show will be on display until February 17, 2020. More details at https://bonnerdavid.com/.

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New York City
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January 16–February 6

Cavalier Gallery will soon present an exhibition of recent paintings by David Peikon, ranging from cityscapes to landscapes and botanicals. He has titled it “Stories” because each work is coupled with a brief narrative about how it came to exist.

Peikon notes, “Since I can’t always be at the gallery to offer first-person accounts, and since the gallery staff can’t possibly know all the details, I hope this will make the experience more rewarding for visitors, helping them engage more completely, and connect emotionally, with the paintings.”