June Issue 2001
Wickwire Gallery in Hendersonville, NC, Features View to the Countryside
Wickwire fine art/folk art Gallery in Hendersonville,
NC, presents View to the Countryside with Max Bullock,
Glenn Danos, Mark Haines and Kimberly A. Levi. The exhibit will
be on view from June 23 - July 20. Four local artists with individual
perspectives of the countryside have used canvas and paper to
create a variety of extraordinary interpretive paintings depicting
the rural out-of-doors. Pastures, grazing fields, farm animals,
and landscapes of rolling hillsides in oils, watercolors and acrylics
capture the fleeting moods of nature with its entire visual splendor.
Viewers are invited to experience the glory, tranquility and natural
quality of earthly images by four very talented people.
Max Bullock, who works in various media, has a many faceted career.
Travels throughout the US, Canada, Central America and Europe
have produced a notable body of work which emphasize on-the-spot
drawings of the monumental and commonplace, the old and the new,
the elegant and the unattractive, cityscapes and buildings. Highlighting
her career has been a One Person Show at the Press Club, Washington
DC, and the commission of the portrait of Major General Clara
L. Adams-Ender, the first African-American female general in the
US Military.
Glenn Danos, who resides in Cedar Mountain, NC on acres of woodland, depicts nature in all its abundant and serene glory. Within this setting where mountain streams and waterfalls flow in peaceful tranquility, Danos paints natural beauty. Danos' innate talent as an artist, an acquired love of art, and travel abroad as well as throughout the US, combine to inspire his paintings in oils and acrylics. He was born to the unique landscape of New Orleans - a city filled with culture, arts, music, history and a unique source of inspiration. He is an excellent photographer and uses his prints in his work portraying nature in all its glory.
Mark Haines primarily works in oil and watercolor - his style has been referred to as painterly realism. He particularly likes the pastel qualities of oil on unprinted watercolor paper - along with the texture and visual effect which on-canvas blending and rough bristles bring to the paint surface. This gives his painting a 'worked' appearance. He will paint on a small scale for the intimacy created inviting the viewer to move close to the work. Haines earned a BA from the University of Kentucky in 1970 and, in addition, he has taken basic classes in freehand and life drawing at San Diego City College, yet he learned to work with art mediums on his own.
Kimberly A. Levi paints on location, out-of-doors enabling her to capture the true effects of light, color and perspective in what she calls "the transitory splendor and mighty power of nature." She is a contemporary "plein-air" artist and does not hesitate to 'experiment with her palette' of alkyd oil paints or pastels which are applied quickly intensifying the mood and subject in her work. Her passions for life and art are vividly seen in her colorful images. Her studio is situated in the breathtakingly beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of NC. She is a graduate of Camden County Technical School in NJ with a degree in graphic arts and a subsequent apprenticeship program. Levi's works are shown in the southeast, northeast and central US and collected abroad in Germany and Poland.
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