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September Issue 2004
Richard James Galleries in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Michael Gray
The Richard James Galleries in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibition, The Poetry of Light: an Impressionist Journey, featuring works by Michael Gray from Sept. 4 - 30, 2004.
The work of Gray represents over twenty years of dedication to and training in the Impressionist style. He has painted throughout the US and Europe and studied in the museums of Paris and London in his search for an authentic voice for the southern landscape. Gray's keen sense of Southern familiarity and heritage come together with a full understanding of the Impressionist responsibility to paint the moment. The result is at once familiar and exciting.
Gray's return to South Carolina was homage to the style by which he paints and the composition with which he understands, the southern landscape. Each painting defines the characteristics put forth by his precursors: spontaneity, broken strokes of bright colors, texture and luminosity. Each view depicts a place and time, a moment that is brought to life and placed in front of the viewer to step inside. Winding paths and broken streams are often created by any number of colors in order to portray every shadow and light...every leaf on a tree.
Gray began his education at Francis Marion University and completed his BA at St. Andrews University. Following university, he studied with noted American artists Johnsie Stidd and Dana Crosland. He then served an apprenticeship with internationally respected Impressionist, I.R. Smithkin and Elain de Mountluzan of London and New York, whom Gray credits with forming his traditional understanding of the impressionist's technique, style and method.
The Richard James Galleries is proud to be hosting Gray's first solo show in Charleston and with the Gallery.
For more information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, contact gallery Director Nikki Grasso at 843/577-9122, e-mail at (rjg@richardjamesgalleries.com) or at (www.richardjamesgalleries.com).
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