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May Issue 2006
West End Art Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, Features Second Annual Solo Exhibition by Henryk Fantazos
West
End Art Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, will present its second
annual one-man exhibition of paintings and engravings by Henryk
Fantazos entitled, Face of the South. The exhibition will
open on May 19 and continue through June 19, 2006. It will be
the only opportunity for the public to view this large exhibition
featuring the artist's newest original work.
Fantazos was born in Kamionka Strumilowa near Lvov in what was then Poland in 1944. From 1957 to 1963, he attended the Lyceum of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, and in 1963 was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he studied at the Painting Faculty under the eminent Professor J. Nowosielski. In 1969 he received his Master's Degree and became a professional artist.
In 1975 Fantazos immigrated to the United States, was granted political asylum and moved to New York. The following year he went to live and paint on a remote farm in West Virginia. "Those eight years were a time of Dionysian rejoicing. I painted, I tended a garden, and I looked very intimately at nature. "For some years now Fantazos has lived in Hillsborough, NC, dividing time and attention between painting and copper engraving. Since 1969, Fantazos has worked as a painter and, more recently, as an engraver, organizing one-man shows and taking part in many group showings in Poland and international exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States.
Face of the South, will feature paintings and etchings, including Fantazos' newest series "Face of the South". Once again, please join us for this incomparable exhibition of extraordinary craftsmanship that will take you on a flight of the imagination. You will leave the exhibition truly inspired!
"There is urgency attendant with the subject: the South is a disappearing country," says Fantazos. "Yes: the world I am painting now is being removed, rolled away, and rubbed out with an eraser as big as Sherman's army of bulldozers. All I should do, as always is to paint it before it will be gone and yet stay; in my 'Face of the South'."
For further information check our NC Commercial
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 336/917-0036 or at (www.westendartgallery.com).
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