A Different
View: Contemporary
Landscapes At ArtSpace/Virginia
Miller Galleries
“A Different
View: Contemporary Landscapes,” the exhibition at ArtSpace/Virginia
Miller Galleries from August 1st through September 29th,
presents widely varying visions of landscapes interpreted
by a group of artists as far-ranging as a Pulitzer Prize-winner
and a Russian dissident.
Jim
Morin, winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his drawings
on the editorial
pages of “The Miami Herald,” has been awarded numerous
honors for his pen-and-ink drawings. An accomplished painter,
Morin studied painting and drawing at Syracuse University.
He is exhibiting a series of landscapes that have not been
shown before.
El Nuevo Herald Review.
August 17, 2003 click
here
Jim Morin Entrance
I 15x30in,
2003, Oil on Canvas
Anatolij
Shuravlev Berlin 32x40in,
1998, C-Print
Deborah
Brown Torrey
Pines and Sea Cliffs 48x55in,
1986,
Oil
on
Canvas
The Russian dissident
is Anatolij
Shuravlev, who studied Western art clandestinely
through banned magazines and books when he was growing
up in Communist Russia. His distinctive photographs have
been exhibited by ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries at
ArtMiami 2003, his first one-person show in the Southeastern
U.S., and extensively in museums and galleries in New York
City as well as throughout Russia,
Europe and South America.
A former visiting
professor of art at Yale, her alma mater, Brown received
her MFA at Indiana University. She will exhibit her painterly,
realistic landscapes, which are in the permanent collections
of 11 museums; her mosaics are featured in five public
installations in New York City and New Jersey as well as
at the Department of Environmental Protection Carr Building
in Tallahassee and at the Port of Miami.
Arless
Day, who began his art career as an editorial illustrator,
will be represented by his small-scale but powerful
gouache-and-collage, illusionistic paintings. According
to critic Shaw Smith, Day “constructs environments
from scores of images collected, cut and torn from
magazines, books and catalogues to produce a technicolor
dreamworld of joy, delight and whimsy.”
Arless Day Paradise
Found 14x17.5in,
1998, Collage and Gouache on Board
Glaser, whose
work illustrated the recently published University of Florida
Press book, “Mysterious Manatees,” has several major works
in the permanent collection of the Port of Miami. The ArtSpace/Virginia
Miller Galleries exhibition will feature several of her “aquascapes,” large-scale
scenic underwater photos and photos of the flora and fauna
around Florida sinkholes and lakes.
An extensively
recognized master colorist, Haden’s paintings have been
shown in leading public and private venues in the U.S.,
Europe, Latin America, and Africa.; this
is the debut exhibit of her new impressionistic work. Describing
her work in the catalog of an exhibition at the Grimaldi
Chateau-Museum in France, critic Florence Gilbard wrote
that Haden’s “mysterious thickets and bottomless pools
of water ... recall the archetypal forests and magical
wishing wells embedded deep within our psyches."
Warner
Friedman The
Marginal Way 54x46in,
2003, Acrylic on Canvas
Karen Glaser View
from Catfish Hotel 25x38,
2002, B/W Photograph
Josephine Haden Color
in Motion Diptych 24x16in
each panel, 2003, Acrylic on Wood
Kyle The
Unavoidable Man 32x40x6in,
2000, Mixed Media
Kyle, who has
been described as a “psychological surrealist,” has an
MFA from the University of Cincinnati. He will exhibit
an installation consisting of a house frame with living
landscaping framing a mixed media painting in the background
as well as constructions featuring computer-enhanced photographic
images. His subject matter, sometimes described as “peeling
of layers,” incorporates personal experience in historically
topical matter.
Warner
Friedman paints serene landscapes and seascapes viewed through such
architectural forms as windows. Sometimes shaped, his canvases
tease the eye into believing in Friedman’s “new reality,” challenging
the viewer to separate illusion from reality. The Boca
Raton Museum of Art will feature his paintings in a solo
exhibition in September.
Mary
Prince Shmoose 29.5x41in,
2001, Intaglio with Chine Collé on paper
Prince has a
Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Andrews Presbyterian College
and a Master of Arts and a Master of Education from Columbia
University. Also widely exhibited, Prince will show intaglio
with chine collé prints illustrating the transformational
qualities of light on several related landscape scenes.
Established
in 1974, ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries is the longest-established
contemporary fine art gallery in South Florida. Located
at 169 Madeira Avenue, Coral Gables, the gallery is open
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday - Friday, and Saturday
and evenings by appointment.
El
Nuevo Herald Review. August 17, 2003 click here
