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Artist Statement:
The story of my life has been
published soon by Publish
America in a book I wrote
called An Artist's life. It is
now available at
Publishamerica.com or
Amazon.com.
I was trained in painting by
the German Expressionist Karl
Zerbe, in his last painting
class at the Boston Museum
School before he left for
Florida. I learned the a wide
range of traditional and new
painting techniques from oils,
encaustics, egg tempera and
egg emulsion to the then new
Polymar which eventually was
replaced by the more flexible
acrylics. Zerbe was an
inspirational speaker who
pointed out to his students
the importance of conveying
ideas and emotions in your
works. I became a Boston
landscape and figure painter
and experimented with
abstracts. In Boston I had
two shows at the now defunct
Carl Siembab Gallery which
were favorably received by the
Boston critics. I believe
that a painter must know his
craft, how to use and
manipulate the paint to create
what we called "paint quality"
which can be thick or thin
transparent or opaque, glazed
and scumbled. In Boston we
braved the tide of the New
York School which added so
much to modern art, but ...
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Artist Galleries:
Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston
MA
Neil Chassman Gallery, NY,NY
Ray Hughs Gallery, Brisbane,
Australia...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Western Illinois University
Collection
Macomb IL
Cushing Academy in MA
Neil Chassman Collection
Charlotsville, Va
And private collections in
Australia and U.S.A....
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Exhibitions for Eugene Solot:
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1957 and 1959 One person exhibition Siembab Gallery of oil paintings and water colors Boston, MA
1976 2 person American eagle exhibition with sculpture Presto Jackson.
Western Illinois University Art Gallery
1978 One person exhibition of computer drawings Western Illinois University Gallery.
1985 One Person Exhibition of paintings and drawings Terry Chassman Gallery New York, NY.
1994 One person 40 year Retrospective Exhibion of paintings, drawings, and video art representing works from 1954 to 1994.
1992 to present time exhibiting writings, visual arts, and music on the web.
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