R E Welch GalleryFranco Chiarani Exhibition

The R E Welch Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Italian painter Franco Chiarani, the show is titled "Gestural Dynamism." The artwork will be showcased during the month of June. Cultural formation, artistic pedigree and spiritual content oscillating between the fantastic and visionary have always clearly indicated the expressionist nature of Chiarani's paintings.

Franco Chiarani
Ballerino Grasso (Fat Dancer)
Oil on Paper, 27"x 19"
Courtesy R E Welch Gallery, Seattle




Franco Chiarani
Passeggiata Lunga (Long Walk)
Oil on Paper, 27"x19"
Courtesy R E Welch Gallery, Seattle

Link for additional images by Franco Chiarani.

The R E Welch Gallery specializes in sophisticated international artists. The gallery is located one half block south of the Seattle Art Museum. They also have a sister gallery in Palm Desert, CA.


Franco Chiarani: Gestural Dynamism
June 5 - 30, 2008
Reception: Thursday, June 5, 5-9Ppm.


Gallery Hours: Monday -Saturday 10-6pm, Sunday Noon-5pm


R E Welch Gallery
1214 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 264-8141


For additional information please visit their R E Welch Gallery website:
http://www.rewelch.com/

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Gallery IMASandro Negri Exhibition and Reception

Gallery IMA is pleased to present an intimate showcase of paintings by Italian artist Sandro Negri. Sandro will be traveling from his villa in Mantova, Italy to attend the May 16 th reception, where he will also put on a live demonstration. This is a rare opportunity to see an artist of his ability and passion at work.
The painting will be available for purchase following the show.

Please join Gallery IMA Friday for the opening reception and
Live Demonstration! Friday May 16th, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Sandro Negri
Iris # 2
Oil on canvas, 14 x 14 inches
Courtesy Gallery IMA, Seattle




Sandro Negri
Bagliori di Storia
Oil on canvas, 20"x20" inches
Courtesy Gallery IMA, Seattle

Sandro Negri was born in the village of Virgilio in Lombardy, Italy in 1940. He grew up among several generations of peasants in an ancestral farmhouse observing and absorbing the age-old agricultural traditions and rituals. His experiences in Italy's most fertile farm region, the Pianura Padana, provided the themes for his paintings such as the peasant figure draped in a dark "tabarro" in a winter scene, women gathering flowers in springtime, and fields of grain in summer. It is impossible not to be fascinated, transported, and bewitched by his astonishing paintings called by a French critic "joy found again in lost paradise".

Sandro began exhibiting primarily in Italy. His fame grew beyond the Italian border, and he was soon exhibiting throughout Europe, publishing his first monograph in 1976. By the mid-1990's he was also showing in the United States and Canada. Two drawings were purchased for the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey permanent collection at the Portland Art Museum in 1997. A thirty-year retrospective exhibit of Sandro'€™s work was held at Casa del Mantegna in Italy in 2000 and the lush catalogue was produced to accompany that exhibit.

In conjunction with his show at Brian Marki Fine Art in Portland, OR, May 5th to 31st.


Sandro Negri
May 16th - June 8th, 2008


Opening reception and Live Demonstration!
Friday May 16th, 5:30 to 7:30 pm


Gallery IMA
123 South Jackson St.
Seattle WA. 98104-2942
206.625.0055


Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday - 10:30-5:30 pm
Sunday - 12:00-5:00 pm


For additional information contact the gallery or visit their website Gallery IMA


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Benham GalleryJohn Chervinsky - Experiment in Perspective

The Benham Gallery, is exhibiting John Chervinsky's "An Experiment in Perspective." The exhibition will be on display through May 27th.

John Chervinsky has been passionately pursuing photography for 20 years. Chervinsky’s background in physics, chemistry, and materials science is evident in his series of conceptual still-lifes. Inspired by predecessors such as John Pfahl, he set out to explore issues of visual perception and photography in his ongoing series, “An Experiment in Perspective.

John Chervinsky
Design, 2003
Archival inkjet print © 2003 by John Chervinsky
Courtesy of the artist and Beham Gallery, Seattle




John Chervinsky
The Black Box, 2005
Archival inkjet print © 2005 by John Chervinsky
Courtesy of the artist and Beham Gallery, Seattle




John Chervinsky
All Watched Over, 2006
Archival inkjet print © 2006 by John Chervinsky
Courtesy of the artist and Beham Gallery, Seattle




John Chervinsky
Providence, 2005
Archival inkjet print © 2005 by John Chervinsky
Courtesy of the artist and Beham Gallery, Seattle




John Chervinsky
The Gravity of Mars, 2005
Archival inkjet print © 2005 by John Chervinsky
Courtesy of the artist and Beham Gallery, Seattle

Statement by artist: My still lifes are intended to be presented in the manner of a science demonstration or imaginary physics experiment. Chalk marking on blackboards are justaposed with real objects to create tensions between the physical world and the imaginary constructs that we use to define it. To accomplish the illusory effect of the chalk, I point a view camera towards the horizon point of two right-angle chalkboards. Markings are drawn into the three-dimentional field (in forced perspective) such that, from the fixed point of view of the camera, they appear to have depth, or to be floating in space, or on the surface plane of the photograph.

In an effort to engage collaboration with the viewer, the images are conceived symbolically, to form an open-ended framework. While it is my intent that the chalk markings and blackboards place the work into the world of ideas, it is not intended to be instructional. Rather, I see the work as posing questions without easy answers. My intent is not to express a single, narrow perspective, but to among other things, expose the fallacy of doing so.

You can read the artists full statement by visiting
John Chervinsky's website.


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John Chervinsky
An Experiment in Perspective
April 17 – May 27, 2008


Benham Gallery
1216 First Avenue
Seattle WA 98101
(206) 622-2480


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website: Benham Gallery.


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