Dick Anthony returns to the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery with a solo show completely devoted to his well received "Just So" series acrylic paintings that incorporate aluminum, Brass and Copper. Anthony also will be showing graphite and charcoal drawings, and acrylic studies from the "Just So Series". Dick Anthony has been a Portfolio Member at absolutearts.com since July 2009.
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Dick Anthony
Title: Just So, Series IV
Year Created: 2009
Medium: Mixed Media
Width: 18 inches
Height: 18 inches
Depth: 1.5 inches
Price: US$ 2,250
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Anthony's highly textured color field paintings take their titles from U.S.
and British cliches, particularly business cliches, such as Spheres of Influence, Crunch Time and Critical Points. The paintings, drawings and maquettes in the current show are from his Just So series.
Anthony's work evolved from the social realists he admired as an art student, Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper, to painterly abstractions, and finally to the constructions and multimedia paintings that characterize his work today. One writer has called his works "...wonderful testaments to the power of balance and form."
Anthony talks about "...forms that slip past each other, overlap, barely touch or collide, creating movement, tension and perhaps most of all mystery."
"But," he says, ěthe fun starts when viewers tell me what they see. Their impressions and characterizations are as valid as mine: from 'celestial landscapes' to the wind-driven roiling waters of lower New York Bay - two recent viewer appellations attributed to Just So series paintings."
Following college and a tour in the Navy during the Korean War, Anthony was a newspaper reporter, and later a correspondent and editor
at Life Magazine for ten years. He left journalism for public relations, heading
P. R. at The Business Roundtable and Union Pacific Corporation and International P. R. at Ford Motor Company.
Anthony returned to art with shows at Ruth and the late Skitch Hendersonís Silo Gallery in New Milford, Connecticut in 2000 and 2003, and the Marunouchi Gallery in 2006. Earlier this month he was in a group show at Galleries Artitude in Paris, where he showed in 2008. He also has six pictures in a group show, Art Loan 2009/10, in the law offices of Garvey Schubert Bayer at 100 Wall Street, New York, NY. His work has sold to collectors in New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, New Mexico, Tokyo and Warsaw.
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