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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo Shows:
2005/2006 The Hideaway Grill
and Market, Lone Butte, New
Mexico
Group and Juried shows:
2006, Collaboration Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
2004, February Group Show
(Juried), Lankershim Art
Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2004, Photographic Process VI.
Period Gallery. Award of
Excellence.
2003, Solo Show,
IMAGINESTATION online Gallery,
December ...
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Artist Galleries:
Collaboration Gallery, 621 Old
Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe,
NM...
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Artist Reviews:
""Study for Self-Portrait"...a
work to judge portraits by."
Anne Odell, The Weekly Press,
Philadelphia, PA, August 25th,
1994
"Inspiring perfect pixels,
Andrew Neighbour brings just
the right mix to his digital
masterpieces." Period
Gallery, artist spotlight,
December, 2003....
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Collections:
Numerous private collections
Anna Pollock, Pembridge, UK
Washington University, St.
Louis, MO, USA
Rick Oertli, Town and Country,
MO, USA...
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Commissions:
Ms. Rebecca Rocco, Birmingham,
PA, USA
Mr. Mike Farinola, Kennett
Square, PA, USA
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Artist Statement for Andrew Neighbour
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Andrew Neighbour is at the forefront of exploring a new world where digital art meets classical realist painting and drawing. For the past decade he has specialized in figurative art and portraiture using oils, pastel and a variety of drawing materials. He is an admirer of and influenced by the techniques and styles of Stanley Spencer and Lucian Freud, and inspired by the narrative content of Eric Fischl, Isadore Bishop, Jerome Witkin, and Kaethe Kollwitz.
He approaches fine art from a nontraditional route. Born in England in the early fifties, the son of an artist, Neighbour chose to distinguish himself through science. He immersed himself in the natural world learning to become a biologist, zoologist and eventually a medical research scientist. Through those years, his natural inquisitiveness and observation of the wonders of living things honed a visual skill that now emerges in his new-found avocation of painting and digital art. Presently, he combines his creative obsessions with a busy career in academic administration at a leading Southern California research University. With more than twenty years in biomedical science and business, he discovered painting when taking numerous classes in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Thereafter, he studied with painters in St. Louis and most recently at UCLA and the LA Academy of Figurative Art. He has studied with and is immensely grateful to the following teachers: Al Gury, Larry Francis, Jill Rupinski, Al Osbourne, and Doug Martenson at PAFA; and Suzanne Bothwell at UCLA Extension.
Recently, Neighbour began to apply his aptitude for computers and technology to his artistic repertoire. Building on a lifelong passion for photography, he now uses the digital camera and computer as an aid and stimulus for his painting. The artworks presented here represent the culmination of this new hybrid technique. Using a digital SLR and the computer, he is developing unique source material for his painting by combining live studio models with digital photos to provide background contextual environments. With the evolution of software such as Photoshop (Adobe) and Painter (Corel), he now creates original computer images often incorporating elements captured from his original oil paintings and drawings. Computer technology provides a fluid and flexible tool capable of mimicking many media which can expand the artist’s repertoire without limiting his creativity. Flexibility and spontaneity provided by technology expand the artist’s ability to experiment, to correct, refine, and create.
In the artist’s view, creativity is a changing and never ending journey of discovery and expression. Scientists marvel at their constant path of discovery and innovation. A creative and open mind favors experimentation and research. The same qualities of empirical exploration that characterize the scientist are essential skills that help the artist find his voice and experience his full potential.
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