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Artist Exhibitions:
2009, solo show, Dec. 1-12,
Jain Marunouchi Gallery,
24 West 57th Street, New York,
NY
2009, group show (5 works),
Nov. 3-14, Galeries Artitude,
Village Suisse-4, Avenue Paul
Deroulede, Paris, France
2009, year-long Exhibition
Loan Program (6 works),
the law offices of Garvey
Shubert Barer, 100 ...
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Artist Galleries:
Jain Marunouchi Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 1002...
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Artist Reviews:
A Journalist's View
Media coverage of my work has
included Connecticut Public
Television
and articles in several New
England newspapers (my studio
was formerly in Connecticut).
One article that best
captures the spirit of my work
follows:
The Waterbury (Connecticut)
Republican American
September 7, 2003
Roxbury Artist Speaks in ...
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Dick Anthony
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As an art student in school and college my work reflected my admiration of American social realists Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton. But over the years abstract expressionism, op art, minimalism and color field painting had a strong impact on me and my work evolved into abstract acrylics often incorporating aluminum, brass and copper on a canvas or board support.
The technique—I call it organic, multi-tonal color field painting—is expressed in two series: Spheres of Influence and my latest series that I call, Just So. Concurrently I have pursued another technique that I call painterly constructions, work that combines painting and sculptural techniques. Series in this mode in acrylic, metal, board and paper include Critical Points, Crunch Time and Within the Realm.
In the Just So and Spheres of Influence series, curvilinear forms slip past each other, overlap, barely touch or collide, creating movement, tension and mystery. Critical Points suggest sharp, disconnected messages tangling in a variety of environments in a struggle to gain center stage and prevail. Crunch Time expands the collision of ideas concept with a roiling mass of aluminum, brass and copper. Within the Realm suggests agitation and a massive turbulence below the surface. The titles of most of the series are drawn from cliches and bureaucratic jargon and suggest, in concert with my aesthetic vocabulary, a range of emotions and reactions I experienced in the workplace, which, no doubt, are applicable to many, anywhere.
I took early retirement and returned to art full time after a career in journalism—two New England newspapers and 10 years with LIFE Magazine; and public relations—IBM, Ford, Union Pacific and The Business Roundtable, heading PR at the last two and International PR at Ford.
Since 2000, when my work was first shown at Ruth and the late Skitch Henderson’s Silo Gallery in New Milford, Connecticut, other solo shows have followed at the Silo in 2003 and the A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery in New York City in 2006 and 2009 (December 1-12). I participated in a group show with three other American artists at Galleries Artitude in Paris in 2008, and will be there again in 2009 (November 1-15). Six of my pictures are currently in Art Loan 2009/10, a year-long group show in the law offices of Garvey Schubert Bayer at 100 Wall Street in New York. My work has sold to collectors in New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, New Mexico, Warsaw and Tokyo.
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