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RELEASE | CONTACT: EMILY HARRIS / PR@ANIMAZING.COM /
212.226.7374
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NEW YORK, NY - Animazing
Gallery, SoHo, is proud to present a new collection of works by renowned artist,
Tom Everhart, who in 1989 embarked on an artistic journey to create a body of
paintings inspired by his close personal relationship with his friend and
mentor, PEANUTS™ creator Charles Schulz. This sale and exhibition of 95
paintings, entitled Crashing the Party: The Arty-Fact Paintings, will be the
biggest show in the history of Everhart's artistic career. Everhart will be the
guest of honor at a champagne reception on the evening of Saturday, May 21st,
from 6-9PM. RSVP required to rsvp@animazing.com. The exhibition is free and open to the
public from May 22nd-June 26th, 2011. The gallery is located at 54 Greene
Street, on the SE corner of Broome & Greene. For more information call
212-226-7374.
The paintings of Tom Everhart have always allowed the viewer to
play with the familiar and its unexpected reinterpretation. When Charles Schulz
recognized that Tom was inspired by his painterly line and had discovered new
artistic ways to portray it, Schulz gave Everhart exclusive and free artistic
license to use the PEANUTS™ characters as subject matter for the duration
of his lifetime. Since 1989, Everhart has built an extraordinary body of work
based on the instantly recognizable image of Snoopy. The viewer is lured into
the work with vibrant colors and pop icons, and quickly discovers the
emotionally complex and socially provocative meanings that are just under the
surface, and are the hallmark of the artist's
work.
Since his last major exhibition in 2007, Everhart has
pushed the boundaries of his medium far beyond normal expectations. He has
explored the depth of color by literally sculpting with paint, and in this new
collection he has put that aside to isolate the color and expose it in a unique
way. Only when one views the numerous small paintings together can one
comprehend the full complexity of the artist's
vision.
"I'm interested in light as a property of color, not as an
illusion. Instead of trying to paint the illusion of light, I'm actually working
with these transparent layers of light in themselves. The light is inherently
part of the color." -Tom Everhart
Everhart attempts to create a dialog among the paintings
that addresses his concern about over-population and the strain it has put on
world resources while juxtaposing this against the isolated, open, tropical
areas that seem to live in harmony with nature. On a more personal level,
Crashing the Party is Everhart's way of expressing how he feels about the
artistic path he has chosen. Putting aside a classical education, Everhart
brazenly carved out a successful career in the fine art world with his
paintbrush and sheer audacity. His choice to focus an entire career on the
subject matter of a single cartoon is considered scandalous within various
circles of his own art community, but inevitably, this superficial viewpoint
disintegrates when the sophistication of the work exposes itself. Ironically, it
is a situation that the artist has continued to regard with humor for the past
22 years while enjoying such success as an exhibition in Paris at the
Louvre.
Everhart understands that part of the appeal of his
paintings is the attention to color and line. The element that originally
brought Everhart to Schulz was a fascination with the "brilliant architecture of
Schulz's black ink line and its potential for monumental shifts in tone and
scale." Everhart's love of Schulz's line - and his remarkable ability to capture
it and vividly interpret it - impressed Schulz and launched a friendship that
continued until Schulz's death in 2000. "I had this collaboration with Charles
Schulz," Tom says, "and since his death that collaboration has ended. I want to
keep the work growing, because keeping the work growing means that it's
alive."
Everhart is constantly in search of, what he calls, "the
evolution of the mark." From the expressionistic slashes of his early works, to
the prismatic dots of the last few years, to the sculptural tendencies of his
most recent works, Everhart's strengths have remained an unmatched eye for color
and a willingness to experiment with textures and surfaces. In the medium of
fine art lithography, Everhart has mastered the creation of subtle
transparencies and reflective light with hand-mixed inks. He has created
limited-edition lithographs that have sold out in the US, Asia and Europe since
the early
1990's.
Everhart's paintings have been exhibited in Museums and fine art
galleries worldwide, including the Museu da Cidade (Lisbon, Portugal), Suntory
Museum (Osaka, Japan), the Louvre (Paris, France), and the Charles M. Schulz
Museum (Santa Rosa, CA). His last collection "Boom Shaka Laka Laka: The Lagoon
Paintings" was exhibited in fall 2007 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, and
commemorates Everhart's marriage in Tahiti to his longtime muse, Jennifer
Gallagher. Tom and Jennifer divide their time between their home in Southern
California and their beloved French
Polynesia.
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ABOUT ANIMAZING GALLERY | Since 1984, Animazing Gallery has
showcased a unique collection of original and limited edition works, including
animation, great American illustration art & fine art that indulges the senses
and emotions with color, playfulness and beauty.
For more information about
Animazing in New York or France visit animazing.com.
for more
information
to RSVP to the
Event
Press Only: to request the link for hi-res downloads of select
pieces from the show.
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Animazing Gallery | 212.226.7374 |
54 Greene Street | New York | NY |
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