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Indepth Arts News:
"Sunset - Hillside artist MARI LYONS"
2010-11-02 until 2010-12-04
First Street Gallery
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
First Street is pleased to present "Sunsets/Hillsides," Mari
Lyons's fourteenth one-person show at the gallery. These new works follow and
relate to her 2008 show of landscapes ("Green Thoughts.") This group of
paintings explores a singular motif—the small forest (a hillside) behind her
studio in Woodstock, New York, and the effect of sunsets and other phenomena
on this small area of land. Events happen: trees fall: they leave a skeleton
of branches; the seasons rotate; the light constantly changes; trees become
animate; the sky breathes with a mysterious glow; and there is always color.
These paintings explore how hard it is to know and to translate anything into
painting—even a small hillside. First Street Gallery promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com.
Mari Lyons's work has received positive reviews in The New Republic, The New
York Sun, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Jed Perl has said that she "has
staked her claim as the complete painter, the master of every genre." Her work
is represented at the Museum of the City of New York, Rider University, and in
more than 120 private and corporate collections across the country and abroad.
Her work has been reproduced (twice) in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and she
has participated in a two-person show and panel discussion with the painter
John Dubrow. Mari is an ambitious and passionate painter who has explored many
subjects—including cityscape, still life, figures, portraits, studio
interiors, images of fly fishing, and much else. She lives and works in New
York City and Woodstock, New York.
Please visit the artist's website for a fuller look at the scope of her work and career.
View more of this exhibition at absolutearts.com.
Visit First Street Gallery's Portfolio at absoltuearts.com http://galleries.absolutearts.com/firststreetgallery
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