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Robert Bauer: Landscape Drawings (4th Floor Gallery) December 16, 2004 – January 22, 2005 Forum Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Robert Bauer: Landscapes Drawings in our Fourth Floor gallery. The exhibition will feature 16 drawings, measuring 10 x 11 inches to 15 x 18 inches in size and created with graphite on gessoed paper. Bauer’s landscapes make reference to past artistic traditions, yet are immediately contemporary and timeless. The drawings are a culmination
of additions and subtractions. The marks are delicate, a combination of
faint lines and atmospheric areas which are the result of erasing. Although
he works from both location and photographs, Bauer isn’t interested in
simply producing a representational image of a place. Bauer’s interest is in
finding the forms, and revealing the changing light that distinguishes one
moment of looking from another. He says “the activity of painting or drawing
is as important as the specifics of the subject. The landscape is a point of
departure, and painting or drawing can be the vehicle for moving beyond the
particulars, a way of getting at something in the mental terrain." Robert Bauer was born in Iowa, 1942 and studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Bauer is the recipient of painting fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. His works are in the private and public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Janss Collection of American Realism, Boise Art Museum, ID; General Electric, Fairfield, CT; Pillsbury Company, Minneapolis, MN among many others.
Robert Bauer: Landscape Drawings
opens with a reception on December 16, 2004 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm, and will be
on view through January 22, 2005. |
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