"Three Secret Gardens" Exhibit Opens at Gallery Z
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"Three Secret Gardens" Exhibit Opens at Gallery Z
The opening reception will be held on Thursday, September. 17 from 5-9 PM, in conjunction with Gallery Night Providence.
(COVID-19 requirements, mask-wearing, hand sanitizing and 6’ distancing apply.)
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Julian Penrose (b. 1961) - Julian is a Providence artist, born in Brazil, who grew up in Philadelphia. He has been creating three-dimensional assemblages for years, since college days in Claremont, California, where he studied under the influence of artist Paul Darrow. Studying Landscape Architecture in Seattle, Washington, he incorporated elements of drafting and design into devising his own style. Julian's current work is architectural in form, composed largely of found and salvaged materials - defining his work as "green", keeping materials out of the 'waste stream' by repurposing. His art has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, solo and group.
Julian Penrose: “My Secret Garden” series statement:
Cuttings From the Urban Garden
My garden consists of the urban environment we live in; the cultivation of treasures unearthed from asphalt, concrete and sand. The idea is to focus on the constant tides that ebb and flow between the natural and the man made, to create a world in between.
Environments are ambiguous by nature, in perpetual metamorphosis. I attempt to show a sliver of this mosaic. Fragments combined to tell a story, using compositional elements that appear in my view and attract my interest.
Like people, every object has a story and a right to be viewed as special. When we hold that object in our hands, we are connected to everyone who has also held it, and every place it has been. By recognizing the sacred in the everyday, we make art not simply a visual creation, but a living document of the world we all share.
Christina Penrose (b. 1955) - An award-winning artist creating paintings and collages, Christina holds a BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and has also studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Cleveland Institute of Art in Lacoste, France.
Christina Penrose: “My Secret Garden” series Statement:
This body of was done over the course of
four years. it is a mini retrospective of my
main themes over the last forty years of painting
and experimenting with printing and different
mediums. the themes in this exhibit are
landscape, climate and pollution issues, still
lifes, vessels, biographies, current events,
painting w/ the masters, cairns, and a new series
the native American Indian, inspired by the
controversy over the tar sand pipe lines,
running through their sacred lands….
Alex Khomski, b. 1954 in Moscow, Russia, studied classic drawing and painting with Moscow’s most famous art professors, and was accepted into the most prestigious and highly regarded Stroganoff Institute of Fine and Applied Arts, founded by Count Stroganoff in 1825, the first private academy of art in Russia. Later he was accepted into the highly recognized Union of Graphic Artists in Moscow, which supported vanguard art and underground artists - difficult to promote during Russia’s Communist era.
His first most prestigious show, in Bonn, Germany, in Christian Democratic Party Headquarters, 1988, entitled “Bonn–Moscow, Russian Vanguard Art, was held during Russian President Michael Gorbachev’s first visit to Germany and was highly regarded in the German press. The Swiss ambassador to Germany became a collector; an international career ensued with his first solo exhibition outside Russia at the Gallery Doll in Kotzting, Germany, and representation by the International Gallery Reich in Koln.
Khomski moved to the U.S, in 1990, seeking artistic freedom, subsequently participating in over fifty solo and group shows in the U.S., Canada, Europe and St. Petersburg, Russia. He resides in Arlington, MA, working at his studio at Boston Center for the Arts. His paintings are in numerous collections worldwide.
Alex Khomski: “My Secret Garden” series Statement:
My secret garden is my own fantasy of sacred , illusory and mysterious place, where our souls could wander in our dreams and imagination.
We come there to escape from reality, to meet other lonely souls.
We come there to see imaginative, surrealist creatures, beautiful flowers,
birds and insects.
We will see there carnivorous orchids, who pray on butterflies and dragonflies.
Characters from the books we have read in our youth also live there.
We come there to relax and meditate.
We read this book of dreams with beautiful illustrations.
Sometimes we want to stay there and don’t want to go back...Let dream continue.
Gallery Z Hours: Thursday, Friday & Saturday 12-2:30 pm; Friday & Saturday during “Al Fresco Dining”: 5-9 pm, Sunday: 11:30 am-2:30 pm, or by appointment or chance.