Colorscapes
April 26 - June 15
The Town of Danville’s Village Theatre Art Gallery presents Colorscapes, featuring
an array of paintings by seven contemporary artists living in the Bay Area, San
Francisco, New York, Colorado and Southern California. The exhibit will run from April 26 – June 15,
2012. There will be an opening reception
for the artists and is open to the public on April 26 from 5 – 8 pm.
Colorscapes is an exhibit that celebrates paint, color and the landscape.
Whether it is moody, mysterious, luminescent or complex, each painting pulsates
with movement and light achieved by layers of color and form. Each of these featured artists investigates a
unique color structure that represents their own personal vision of landscapes.
From Jenn Shifflet’s waterworlds, Brian
Rutenberg’s swamps in the Deep South, Mark Bowles’ desert skies or Benjamin
Meyer’s twisting urban highways, each artist expresses his or her unique vision
with paint on canvas, challenging the viewer to look deeper into the structure
as the distinction between abstraction and representation blur.
Featured Artists: Brian Rutenberg, Gail Dawson, Jenn Shifflet, Robert Minervini,
Mark Bowles, Benjamin Meyer and Heather Patterson.
Special Artist Talk with NYC Artist Brian Rutenberg. Join us at the VTAG for an engaging and rare
opportunity to meet this world-renowned NYC artist as he shares with us his
inspiration and his journey as a full-time working fine artist.
Brian Rutenberg's work is as grounded in Old Master painting and drawing
as his sense of place and color is in coastal South Carolina, where he was born and raised.
He spent his childhood exploring the coastal wetlands, developing a love for the landscape.
He graduated from the College of Charleston, before moving to New York City
where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of Visual
Arts. His abstract oil paintings have always reflected his love of the low
country, which he freely acknowledges. Rutenberg’s work has been featured
in solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries and museums throughout the United
States, Europe, and Canada.