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Larry Francis: On the Square and Other Places
Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition, On the Square and Other Places by the Philadelphia painter, Larry Francis. The show will run from February 2 – 28, 2012 with an opening reception for the artist on Friday, February 3 from 5 -7 pm.
This is Larry Francis’ twelfth one-person show with the gallery. The artist resides and paints in Philadelphia and teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Francis is particularly well known for painting directly on location in Rittenhouse Square, along the Schuylkill River, and numerous other Philadelphia locals. His presence on the city streets – the personable artist whom many people know by sight –is significant: Francis grew up in Southwest Philadelphia and has had a lifelong affinity for neighborhoods, people and sights unique to the city. His paintings are a reflection of his optimism, industry, intelligence, and unassuming demeanor. Lucid, crisp and bright, their appeal is immediate, and deeper strengths continue to come to light upon longer inspection. Francis’ ability to compose, to grade values, and to subtly manipulate detail, reveals an underlying mastery of his chosen medium – oil on canvas and gouache on paper. |
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Jim Williams: New Work Gross McCleaf Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition, New Work by the Philadelphia painter, Jim Williams. The show will run from February 2 – 28, 2012 with an opening reception for the artist on Friday, February 3 from 5 -7 pm. Jim Williams, who paints oil from life in both scenic and gritty industrial areas in and around Manayunk, quietly translates the world around him into colorist moments on canvas. Scenes never stray from being recognizable, but maintain a running dialog with the viewer about the implications of individual perception through the artist’s expressive, subtle manipulations of color and space. His compositions in particular have a grace and balance reminiscent of Corot, while his color and abstract sensibilities reveal a love for the architectural distillations and ambiguities of surface found in the work of Richard Diebenkorn. The Philadelphia Inquirer has said “…within the apparently mundane forms of our common environs, Williams reveals expressions of the Universal.”
This is Jim Williams’ fifth one-person exhibition with Gross McCleaf Gallery. A resident of Philadelphia, he received his MFA from the University of Delaware and currently teaches at LaSalle University. |