Recent art purchases from this Gallery:
BERNARDO TORRENS
http://www.bernardotorrens.com
"TRIPTYCH"
Artist's Website: http://www.bernardotorrens.com
RAPHAELLA SPENCE
"THE JUDGE"
Artist Information:
British born artist Raphaella Spence is best known for her precise and evocative renderings of Italian landscapes and mountain towns, Spence explores the tactile and visceral beauty of the region in this much awaited exhibition entitled, “Bridge of Colours.”
Edward Lucie-Smith, in his essay Raphaella Spence and Optical Magic, writes,
"Essentially what Raphaella Spence is trying to do is to intensify the perceptions of the spectator until his or her perception bursts through the boundaries of what is conventionally thought of as realism and becomes an intense and perhaps disorienting celebration of the powers of sight."
Painted in the precisionist style of the Old European Masters and influenced by the American Photorealist Art Movement, Spence combines her painting style with the most recent digital photographic technology to make the photographs on which these meticulous and engaging works are based.
Born in London in 1978, Raphaella carries with her a distinguished artistic heritage. Both her father and grand-father were architects and her attention to detail and emotional understanding of beauty, meld seamlessly with her technical skill and her innate artistic gift.
Undeniably bucolic, her land and cityscapes go beyond the traditional boundaries of transcription. In her Venice scene Mirror of Hope, by focusing as faithfully on the crowded and at first unseemly delivery barges, as she does to the picturesque crumbling façade of an ancient canal house.
Spence celebrates and in turn elevates every aspect of her composition. She relishes in capturing the magnificence of the old, while discovering the beauty of the new.
Continuously combining past and present is a constant that runs throughout Spence's artistic work. Drawing as easily from the Old Italian masters as from her own very contemporary aesthetic sensibilities, her paintings are rooted in the traditional, but unmistakably her own. Her images transcend time, becoming collages of centuries where beauty above all things, is salient.
CLIVE HEAD
"STUDY FOR NEW YORK, OCTOBER 2001"
ROBERT GNIEWEK
"ELWOOD GRILL #2"
MEL RAMOS
"CHIMPANZEE"
GUY JOHNSON
"INTERIOR #6196"
PATRICK S. GORDON
"A FISH OUT OF WATER"
DAVID DEWEY
"MCCALLISTER HOUSE"
CHARLES BELL
"STUDY FOR BUNNY CYCLE"
HILO CHEN
"BEACH #120"
