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April Issue 2006
West End Art Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, Features Works by Eric McRay
West End Art Gallery in Winston-Salem,
NC, will present the exhibit, Two Contemporary Views: Abstraction
& Representation, featuring works by Eric McRay, of Raleigh,
NC, including a broad spectrum of work ranging from abstracts
to representational works including his newest series, "Winston-Salem
Landmarks". The exhibit will be on view from Apr. 21 through
May 13, 2006.
An artist's style is McRay's visual language by which he communicates. Thus, he is multilingual. Openness and exploration rather than a dedication to a particular style best characterize his work. "I believe there is no single correct pictorial solution," says McRay.
Unlike most painters who have a single style, McRay has a range of style and imagery through which he works up and back. He has a powerful pictorial discernment that enables him to go from paintings with a lot of splash and spontaneity to images with a sense of organization and reason. McRay works in themes and variations to empty himself of images.
Perhaps it's his Picassoesque spirit that keeps him on the road to reinvention. His various styles are not exclusive phases in an evolutionary process but options from which he selects according to his expressive goals. "I think great artists are constantly challenging themselves and changing in search of greater truth - look at Picasso and Matisse." So McRay continues to prodigiously produce his paintings, drawings and collages. He is constantly driven to master the visual language of the next new "McRay."
For further information
check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
336/917-0036 or at (www.westendartgallery.com).
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