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Artist Exhibitions:
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 ...
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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:
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Artist Statement for Eugene Solot
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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 the Boston School of the fifties kept alive the traditions of drawing and painting from the object and I am proud to be a member of this fabulous school of painting. I don't deny the importance of the New York school in fact I love their paintings but I also think that the painters of Boston from this era should be discovered before it is too late. I hope my paintings can be enjoyed for their attempts to creat beauty in color with a reverence for paint and the emotions that can be conveyed through its skillful and knowledgeable use.
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