April Issue 2001
Tony Green Shows New Works at I. Pinckney Simons Gallery, in Columbia, SC
The I. Pinckney Simons Gallery in Columbia, SC, celebrates Artista Vista, Apr. 27&28, with the Italian Collection 2001 of Tony Green. The artist has just returned from another month in Venice painting, making music and celebrating Carnival. The exhibition helps the gallery celebrate the ten year anniversary of Green's ongoing friendship and creative genius at the I. Pinckney Simons Gallery.
Green was born in Naples, Italy, and grew up on Orleans' West Bank. He began his studies at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. Over the years Green has traveled and studied in many parts of the world, he now resides in New Orleans, LA. In 1982, the artist returned to his native Italy to visit, paint, and consume his visual surroundings; thus beginning a yearly tradition. He captures on paper, canvas, and board the many street scenes and Italian people that reflect the texture and romance of Venice. His oil palette is full of bright color that represents the many changes of the day. Green's watercolor and gouache paintings exhibit a soft palette that portray the landscapes of the city and the movement within.
Velasquez, John Singer Sargent, and Spanish painter Sorolla are Green's mentors that offer great inspiration in his work. He has adhered to a self imposed program of study, observation and practice. He is quite comfortable in Venice, his second home. Green's subject is often the intimate detail of an often overlooked cherub carved over a doorway, a work barge and crane on a canal project, the flowering balcony just off the Rialto Market, or a panorama of the Grand Canal. What a refreshing treatment of a venue haunted by artists for centuries.
Green celebrates his rich art career as he reflects on the many international awards that have been bestowed upon him. The commissions, solo and group exhibitions have been many in New Orleans and the US as well as Italy.
The I. Pinckney Simons Gallery hopes you will join them for Artista Vista and the premier show and sale of Italy revisited on paper and canvas.
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