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September Issue 2003
Gallery C in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Tony Griffin
Gallery C in Raleigh, NC, will present the exhibition, New Works on Canvas and Paper, featuring the talents of Tony Griffin, from Sept. 5 - Oct. 8, 2003
Griffin is a classically trained landscape painter from Western North Carolina. He began his art education during his high school years studying at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston Salem, NC, and at the American School of Florence, Italy, where his family lived for a number of years. On returning to the United States Griffin attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on full scholarship and continued to apprentice with the famed fresco painter Ben Long who he first worked with in Italy.
The exhibition will consist of recent landscapes in oil as well as figure studies in charcoal and graphite. Griffin has a straightforward approach to both subjects. His drawings are entirely from life as are his portraits, and his landscapes are painted plein-air in the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains. Quiet, thoughtful, poetic nature, best describes these landscapes. Griffin paints most often in early morning or late afternoon light, capturing small farms and pastures in their most tranquil moments.
This will be the first solo show for Griffin at Gallery C. It is the hope of the gallery that this artist so well known in the western half of the state will soon receive the much deserved appreciation of art lovers here in the eastern half.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call Gallery C at 919/828-3165, e-mail at (art@galleryc.net) or on the web at (www.galleryc.net).
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