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May Issue 2007
Elder Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Offers Works by Tom Perkinson
Elder Gallery in Charlotte, NC's historic South End Arts District presents the work of Santa Fe artist, Tom Perkinson. Paintings of Color and Life is Perkinson's third one-man exhibition at the gallery. The exhibit will be on view from May 4 - 30, 2007.
Generally, Perkinson's impressionist paintings are created from his imagination and are painted intuitively. For his 2007 exhibition he has produced a number of paintings which reflect upon his recent travels to Europe. He is not painting so much a specific location, but rather evoking the feeling of a convincing scene. Perkinson paints a hillside and visualizes children running down a hillside and then paints them. The artist strives to make a landscape stand on its own before introducing the figures, somewhat like building a stage and then bringing on the actors.
"When I was a teenager in rural Indiana, I studied all the French Impressionists in the only art book in the high school library," says Perkinson. "Fortunately, this book was in color and it was huge. I trained myself to identify each artist by his paintings. I would have my friends open the book to any page and I would talk about that artist. The Impressionists were my favorites."
Paintings of Color and Life is an amalgamation of the artist's thoughts of urban landscapes painted in the Impressionist style, some in oils and others in pastels. The paintings take the viewer to urban landscapes that are dominated by horse-drawn carriages, street lamps, and atmospheric conditions that set a romantic scene reminiscent of the late nineteen century and early twentieth century. Park scenes at dusk and carriages entering the city on a rainy, foggy night, drawn to the lights of the city are two examples of the subject matter included in the exhibition.
Perkinson's paintings hang in the collections of the former First Lady Betty Ford; Nancy Sinatra; Mrs. Bob Hope; Mrs. John Forsythe; Charlton Heston; The Museum of New Mexico; University of New Mexico Art Museum; and many other personal and corporate collections around the nation.
"I am creating paintings that reflect an American and European experience. It is my desire to communicate my personal artistic statement clearly, through painting scenes that celebrate the beauty and innocence of life," says Perkinson.
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