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October Issue 2007
Rich Nelson Offers Exhibition at Former Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC
Tryon, NC, artist Rich Nelson is presenting
a show of his recent paintings in Landrum, SC, on view from Oct.
16-27, 2007. This temporary exhibition will take place at 108
E Rutherford St, the former Conn Gallery.
Nelson will feature landscape oil paintings of the foothills of
the Blue Ridge as well as paintings from his travels to the South
Carolina coast and elsewhere. He will also feature recent still
life and figurative work, and of course a few portraits.
Nelson is a nationally recognized award-winning portrait and gallery artist residing in the mountains of NC. Though portraiture is a major part of his career, he also loves painting landscape, still life, and figurative gallery pieces. Nelson is endlessly fascinated by people, places, and things and considers it a privilege and a challenge to capture some aspect of their essence on canvas. All of this work (except some portraiture) is done exclusively from life.
"I work toward 'painterly realism'; good drawing and compostion, rendered with strong natural color, in such a way that you can still 'sense' or 'feel' the paint. The effect of this process is that the subject begins to artfully reveal itself to me and hopefully, the viewer," says Nelson.
Hailing from Detroit, MI, Nelson earned his BFA from the College Of Creative Studies in 1988. It was at CCS that he developed his love of painting, drawing, figurative art, and art history. He has been working as an artist ever since, initially as an illustrator, then as a portrait artist, gallery artist, and instructor. Nelson has won many awards and completed over 150 commissioned portraits.
Nelson strives to do museum quality work that will be around long after he and his subjects have left this world. His portraits, landscapes and still life pieces provide meaning and enjoyment now are sure to continue to do so for future generations.
Since leaving the Red Clover Gallery's roster, Nelson has been looking for an opportunity to show his work locally. The Red Clover opened in Oct. 2006 featuring Nelson's paintings, and his wife Kim was the gallery director. However, it was always known that Kim needed to get back to raising their three children full time, which she did in March. Nelson and the gallery amicably parted ways in May.
Richard Conn is focused on creating sculpture and painting, so he decided to close the Conn Gallery in 2006. He is currently represented by galleries in Charlotte, NC, Chattanooga, TN, and Spartanburg, SC. His brother Robert continues to run Conn Custom Framing from the location on Landrum's "Main Street".
The Rich Nelson exhibit at the former Conn Gallery, and Red Clover Gallery's show of Guntram Gersh offer evidence of the growing richness of the art scene in the Landrum area.
For further information check our SC Commercial
Gallery listings, call Rich Nelson at 828/817-3783 or visit (www.richnelson.com).
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