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February Issue 2004
Elder Art Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Presents
Works by Joseph Greenberg and Leon A. Makielski
Elder Art Gallery in Charlotte, NC's Historic South End District
presents two exhibitions which will run through the month of Feb.,
2004.
New York, My Home
features paintings by Joseph Greenberg in the main gallery. Greenberg's
Charlotte debut features paintings that capture the edginess of
the city that he has called home since his birth in 1926.
Greenberg's paintings of the New York skyline are tough, like
the city, and saturated with light. His portrayal of the city
via thick applications of paint creates the sense that the artist
has become one with the city that never sleeps.
Featured in the exhibition will be paintings from Greenberg's personal collection. Included will be familiar scenes from Times Square, Manhattan, Union Square as well as nightscapes of the city to include the World Trade Center which was painted in 1987. A number of his paintings show the beauty of the New York skyline as seen through the magic of night time. His nightscapes illuminate the canvases with the romantic sparkle that is unique to the wonderful city.
In addition, paintings from the artist's travels to Holland and the northeast region of the United States will be on display.
A selection of landscape paintings by Leon
A. Makielski (1885 1974) which were executed in France and
in the United States over his long career of painting will be
on display in Elder Art Gallery's Vintage Gallery.
Four Seasons features paintings in watercolor and oils
that reflect the different seasons of the year. Makielski's passion
for landscape painting is reflected in his paintings of the agrarian
countryside in Europe and especially in the mid-western and northeastern
regions of the United States. While a student at the Art Institute
of Chicago, Makielski spent the summer months at the Eagle's Nest
Camp, an art colony in Oregon, IL, situated west of Chicago. A
number of paintings completed at Eagle's Nest Camp will be included
in the exhibition.
Makielski earned many of the annual awards
given at Indiana, Michigan and Illinois art exhibitions, and his
paintings also received honors from the Detroit Art Institute,
the Art Institute of Chicago, and the St. Louis Museum of Art.
He is included in The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
and his work was shown in Paris at The Salon of 1911 and The Salon
of 1912. He died at his studio in Ann Arbor, MI, in 1974 at the
age of 89.
Makielski was included in William Gerdts' book, Monet's Giverny:
An Impressionist Colony (New York: Abbeville, 1993), p. 218,
260.
Four Seasons and New York, My Home will be on exhibition through February 28, 2004.
For more information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 704/370-6337 or on the web at (www.elderart.com).
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