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September Issue 2006
SOLO Art Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, Features Group Exhibition
Afternoon Stroll: Trena McNabb, Greg Osterhaus, Dorothy Shoemaker, a group exhibition featuring recent works by these artists, is on view at SOLO Art Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, through Sept. 27, 2006.
Trena McNabb
Trena McNabb resides in the North Carolina Piedmont and has numerous national and international corporate commissions on her resume. Her distinctive style employs a technique allowing unpainted sections of canvas to show through the surrounding painted areas. McNabb often draws a central figure in graphite on the canvas, then uses acrylic paints to layer multiple related images over parts of the drawing to form a cohesive transparent collage. Her most recent work includes "Diverse Portraits" of individuals of all ages, races and occupations and a series of botanical paintings. Works in both series will be on exhibit at SOLO.
McNabb talks about the importance of story telling to her art. In her portrait series, each work is actually a connected series of smaller paintings that tell a story. "Painted scenes overlap each other to form a kaleidoscope of colors." In the botanical series, the shape of the piece is as important as color and subject matter. Many of her paintings are done on geometric shapes, like triangles and hexagons. McNabb's art is a curious and elegant synthesis of realism and imagination.
Greg Osterhaus
Greg Osterhaus has lived in the Virginia mountains since moving from Illinois when he was twelve. He went to Virginia Polytechnic Institute originally as a student of architecture, but eventually he focused on a career in graphic arts. In his mid-thirties, Osterhaus began to paint full-time and currently shows in several fine national and international galleries. His favorite subjects for his oil paintings include the rural landscape and barns of North Carolina and southern Virginia. He is also extremely accomplished at cow portraits, filling his canvas with their expressive faces. In the last two years, Osterhaus has also turned his prodigious talent to painting beautiful still lifes. Work in all three subjects will be exhibited.
Osterhaus fell in love with the eloquent beauty of the rural South and has dedicated his career to capturing the glory of Southern landscapes in his expressive canvasses. With poetic application of color and careful understanding of light, his serene vistas are reminiscent of predecessors such as John Twachtman and Wolf Kahn. Impressionistic in style, his paintings invite the viewers to interpret the work using their personal experiences.
Dorothy Shoemaker
Dorothy Shoemaker currently resides in a lovely rural area of South Carolina. She was born in Virginia and also lived in North Carolina for many years. Her frequent travels throughout the area for plein air workshops and paint-outs have added to her extraordinary talent for capturing the beautiful landscapes of the region. Whether coastal, piedmont or mountain, Shoemaker has adeptly captured the South's scenery. Her style reflects her love of color and expressive brushstrokes and she has frequently worked the paint with palette knives to achieve a different surface. In addition to her landscapes, Shoemaker is an accomplished painter of still lifes and animal studies. Work in all three subjects will be on exhibit at SOLO.
Shoemaker started painting
in oils after already achieving national success as a watercolorist.
Additionally, she is educated in a broad spectrum of the visual
arts including drawing, sculpture and figure painting. Most recently,
she took workshops with Scott Burdick and Richard Schmid. Shoemaker
has been the recipient of several grants and her work has appeared
in print.
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call the gallery at 336/722-1976, or at (www.soloartgallery.com).
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