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December Issue 2003
Elder Art Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Presents Two December Exhibitions
Visitors to The Elder Art Gallery in Historic South End District of Charlotte, NC, will be treated to two new shows during the month of Dec., 2003, including Sibling Rivalry featuring works by Patrick and Sean Glover, on view from Dec. 10 through Jan. 10, 2004, and Figures and Faces featuring works by June Roberts on display through Dec. 15, 2003.
Brothers Patrick and Sean Glover are typical siblings who agree and disagree on many issues. However, when it comes to art they have very distinct and different tastes and styles.
Sibling Rivalry will feature new work by the brothers Glover and will provide each artist the opportunity to demonstrate the unique quality of his own work. Both are formally trained, Sean at The Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, FL, and Patrick at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
Sean's training has strongly influenced his traditional painting style as well as his opinion on what constitutes "good" art. Patrick's painting style is on the other end of the spectrum. At times he paints traditional topics with embedded images causing the viewer to be surprised. His work has been greatly influenced by the Pop Art movement. Interesting debates on art are frequent between the Glover brothers.
If you remember the Garbage Pail Kids, read Architectural Digest and Country Living magazines then you may recognize the art of the Glover brothers.
Figures and Faces will give gallery goers a rare opportunity to admire the interesting faces and figure paintings of an artist who has been painting for over fifty years. Working with oils and pastels June Roberts has an exceptional ability to capture emotion and detail in her paintings. She has illustrated books, worked as a fashion artist and traveled with USO Camp Shows Inc. sketching wounded veterans in hospitals throughout the United States. She attended New York's National Academy and Art Students League and is an award-winning member of The Pastel Society of America.
A selection of twelve paintings created by Roberts over the past twenty years will be shown in Elder Art Gallery's Vintage Gallery. The paintings of oil on canvas as well as pastel on paper reflect a small segment of the faces and figures that Roberts has painted over her many years of painting.
Born in Boston in 1918 Roberts grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Pratt Institute. She married in 1949 and became the mother of six children who became the frequent subjects of many of her paintings. Of her work Roberts says "I like to paint realistically because the artists I most admire and who have inspired me, Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Degas, were all realists."
"I especially like to paint all kinds of interesting people and the exhibition of my work at Elder Art Gallery shows the variety of intriguing people I have had the pleasure to paint. Doing one's very best is hard work but this has been my constant goal" says Roberts.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listing, call the gallery at 704/370-6337 or on the web at (www.elderart.com).
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