More Food for thought. Many fine works of art at the Multiple Sins Exhibit at the Lighthouse art Center in Tequesta, Florida Mine is pictured below. it won FIRST PRIZE. This pastel was removed from Cafe Centro in

Northwood after 2 days just prior to this show due to concerns about its

suitability for restaurant dining. Would Goya's NAKED MAJA have been deemed unsuitable for…

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Just Finished ANTONIO LOPEZ GARCIA, by Cheryl Brutvan

Garcia must hold the world record for "the longest time to compelte a plein air painting. Typical is GRAN VIA begun in 1974 and finished in 1981.

This book which accompanied the Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibit of Antonio Lopez

Garcia's work in 2008 fills an important gap in contemporary realism. Lopez…

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Rackstraw Downes, born in England, but living in the US since the sixties has won a McArthur fellowship. The so called genius grant. This is a huge surprise since the award for art usually goes to an avant garde artist, nowadays called cutting edge which is code for non traditional art.

Rackstraw paints everything on site. Sometimes he spends months on one painting. The work is not escapist but suggests mans very complicated relationship with nature and is extremely contemplative. His work… Continue

Lillian Garcia Roig is a plein air artist well worth checking out.

Here are some examples of her work - all done outside. Her statement is below the images.

My formal painting concerns have led me to use the conservative landscape as my subject and traditional plein-air painting as my process, in my attempts to reconcile the abstract nature of painting with its representational role. From a distance, I draw the viewer into what is first… Continue

The Elliott Museum in Stuart Florida opened its 6th Annual Juried show Thursday December 10.

Its a good place to submit work in a very active art community.

My painting Signal, Elegy 54 x 60 won honorable mention. I am pleased to report.

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Just back from NYC Bowery Gallery opening in Chelsea. My painting OPEN SPACE was included in their National Juried Show. I expected a few souls at the mid summer opening. However, six or seven hundred people walked through during the 3 hour opening. Met lots of great artists and some old friends.

Ron Weaver, from Wisconson, who is a founding member of Mid-West Painters among them.



> OPEN SPACE was very well received.

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