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January Issue 2006
Shain Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Roger Dale Brown and Marilyn Simandle
Shain Gallery is presenting the exhibition, Daily Interludes, featuring new works by Roger Dale Brown and Marilyn Simandle at its new location in Selwyn Corners Shopping Center in Charlotte, NC. The exhibit is on view from Jan. 6 - 31, 2006.
Nashville, TN, native,
Roger Dale Brown, began his formal art studies at Middle Tennessee
University. He then continued his studies with numerous artists,
notably, Scott Christensen, Dawn Whitelaw, George Strickland and
Everett Raymond Kintsler.
An avid plein-air painter, Brown began serving as President of
the Southeastern Plein Air Association of Painters in 2004. He
has traveled across the United States painting landscapes and
seascapes from all over the country seeking subject matter combining
his love of history, nature and architecture.
Brown is an active member in a number of prominent organizations
including: The National Arts Club, Plein Air Painters of the Southeast,
and the Cumberland Society of Painters. In 2005 Brown was recognized
as a signature member of the Oil Painters of America.
Brown's oil paintings
have been displayed in galleries throughout the United States
and have won many awards. Honors include: Best of Show, 39th
Annual Central South Juried Exhibition, Salon International Juried
Exhibition, Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition
and First Place, Tennessee Art League Spring Juried Exhibition.
Examples of his work have been featured in publications of International
Artist Magazine, and are included in many private and corporate
collections.
Inspired by her mother, a musician and painter, Marilyn Simandle
always knew she wanted to be an artist. At the age of six, she
started painting watercolors. She went on to receive her Bachelors
degree in Fine Arts at San Jose State University. After college
she developed her talent by teaching and conducting workshops
through the Scottsdale Artist's School.
Simandle's watercolors, acrylics and oils have earned her the
honor of over seventy-five one-woman shows in thirty years of
painting. She has been featured in numerous arts publications
including, Southwest Art, International Artists, Watercolor
Magazine and Orange County Illustrated. She has written
and published several how-to and coffee table books featuring
her art and painting technique. Her most recent book, Contagious
Enthusiasm, was published in 2000.
Simandle's warm paintings detail landscapes and interiors set
in beautiful European cities are created by working with a light
source that brings color to life while creating contrast and depths
in the shadows. Her originals are widely exhibited in corporate
and private collections including those of: Burt Reynolds, Senator
John Garamendi, and The Trump Collection in New York.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 704/334-7744 or at (www.shaingallery.com).
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