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April Issue 2002

Gallery 9 in Foscoe, NC, Features New Works by Wayne Trapp

Gallery 9 in Foscoe, NC, is featuring new works by Wayne Trapp through Apr. 30, 2002. This celebrated sculptor has worked in stone and steel for years, creating lavish, even colossal outdoor pieces for corporate clients and smaller more particular pieces for private clientele. His hands, his shoulders are sore, and sensitive from the scars of sculpting, but he can no more give it up than he can give up breathing. He avows that now he sculpts only by commission, but if a fine piece of stone presents itself or a flash of metal catches his eye or a woman turns her head just so, or if the moon is just right, well the dance begins.

Trapp, the painter, emerged full-blown from the stone carver, took what he could not say in bronze and marble and let go with it in oil and ink on canvas and paper. His oils deliver to the eye a feast of color and stroke saturated with childlike curiosity and adult confidence. Not for the meek, or the abstinent, his work aimed at the alive and well, begs appetite, thirst and desire. Wine, women, and song. His fabled nudes in ink and wash on handmade paper are simple lines curving and dipping and soaring to become women of sophistication and style, women with secrets, women you have known or would like to know.

With unbridled energy and an insatiable passion for everything that crosses his path, he forever seeks interchange, new ground and a good time. The man, by any standard, is an artist for the millennium.

We, at Gallery 9, are proud to present to the public, new works by Wayne Trapp. This body of oil paintings displays the continuing curiosities of this artist. Always creative, always inspiring; this work gives just another wonderful reason to visit the mountains this season.

For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/963-6068, e-mail at (info@gallery9.com) or on the web at (www.gallery9.com).

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