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June Issue 2005
Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by David Kroll
Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is
pleased to be presenting their third solo exhibition for David
Kroll, on view through June 25, 2005.
Kroll recently moved from Chicago where he was teaching at the
Art Institute of Chicago and now resides in Seattle, WA, painting
full time. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute
and his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Kroll recently
had a solo exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana.
His paintings can be found in the collections of the Microsoft
Corporation, Phillip Morris and AT & T.
Kroll uses a repertoire of lush backdrops of sepia-toned landscapes foregrounded with isolated objects such as vases, fruit, birds and butterflies. In his own words, Kroll says, "I paint refuges, places to go for solace. I want my paintings to be destinations of quiet and calm. However, this world is fragile. The elements in the foregrounds are items carefully constructed, either by humans or animals. Yet, they are objects easily broken or destroyed. Birds represent messengers from the wild. They embody beauty and fragility. They are visitors that remind us of lands beyond, wilderness. The distant landscapes in my paintings are remembrances of the natural past, vaguely familiar and pleasing".
Kroll adds, "I fee a link to America's early landscape painters. Whereas they document the progress of civilization with its attendant loss of the wild and unknown, I want to reclaim the wilderness. We can no longer experience unknown wild areas. We can visit designated wild areas and parks. We have become removed from nature, both physically and intellectually, yet I believe a connection to nature is needed. It seems ingrained in our psyche."
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