Posts Tagged ‘Connecticut’
Gregory James Gallery Showing Landscapes by Ira Barkoff
Gregory James Gallery is now showing a small suite of Litchfield artist Ira Barkoff’s paintings of landscapes that are more imagined than actual. The artist’s bold paintings, which seize viewers’ attention, reflect a heightened aesthetic as Barkoff favors an intuitive response to the power of place, time, and conditions over fidelity to a specific scene.…
Read MoreGregory James Gallery Is Expanding in New Location
Gregory James art gallery and custom framing operation are moving and expanding in a location less than a mile away on Route 202. Owner Greg Mullen purchased and renovated the former Concept Interiors building at 149 Park Lane Rd. and a mid-June move is planned, with a late June reopening anticipated. The current gallery…
Read MoreRobert Ferrucci Abstract Paintings Arrive at Gregory James Gallery
Robert Ferrucci is best known for his contemporary American folk art paintings that pay homage to the rural landscape and its iconic structures, but as his work has embraced a stronger palette, richer colors and bolder shapes and forms, the Putnam County, N.Y., artist has also turned to abstraction. “The new work can best be…
Read MoreSeasons by Thomas Adkins: New Paintings Dec. 1 – Jan. 31
“Seasons by Thomas Adkins,” an exhibit of recent works by the Southbury landscape painter, opens Dec. 1 at Gregory James Gallery in New Milford and runs through Jan. 31. View the paintings in the exhibit Adkins, considered one of the finest landscape artists in the Northeast, is showing plein air paintings of the rural northwestern…
Read MoreThe Allure of Autumn Landscapes
Autumn officially arrived this week—the season of harvest celebrations, shorter days ennobled by golden light and flushed sunsets, and artwork celebrating the colorful landscapes that tug at our emotions and inspire deep reflection as winter approaches. Poets have written odes to autumn throughout the ages, and Robert Louis Stevenson concludes his brief poem Autumn Fires…
Read MoreGregory James Gallery Offering Signature Frank Metz Landscapes
Two of landscape painter Frank Metz’s strongest works from the early 1970s are now on display and available at Gregory James Gallery. Metz, who has a home in Roxbury, CT, and recently turned 96 is known for impeccable draftsmanship that provides the foundation for highly evocative works that have evolved over the years from an…
Read MorePavilion Hall in New Preston: A Motif No 1 for Gregory James Gallery Artists
Historic Pavilion Hall may not have the status of Motif No. 1 in Rockport, Mass., but the stylish building perched at the top of New Preston center is a favorite subject for Gregory James Gallery artists. Jim Laurino recently dropped off a new painting of Pavilion Hall as it looks today under the caring ownership…
Read MoreThe Allure of Seascape Paintings: Regional Masters at Gregory James Gallery
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif. —William-Adolphe Bouguereau Art lovers and collectors have treasured seascapes for centuries, and for good reason. Landscape painting as a…
Read MoreNew Batch of Original Neufeld Prints of New York, New Milford, Watch Hill At Gregory James Gallery
Gregory James Gallery has a new suite of original signed linoleum block prints (linocuts) by the late Russian-born artist Woldemar Neufeld, depicting iconic scenes from the past in New York City, New Milford, New Preston and Washington, Conn., and Watch Hill, R.I. The gallery has long been a primary source for original Neufeld linocuts and…
Read MoreThe Allure of Winter Landscapes at Gregory James Gallery
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” —Andrew Wyeth The arrival of winter occasioned a National Public Radio (NPR) rhapsody about the special bond between artists and the season…
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