Arts & Entert ainment Carlin art exhibit extraordinary

ANGELINA WAGNER A&E EDITOR AMW722@CABRINI

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Beautiful oil paintings lined the walls of the Grace and Joseph Gorevin Fine Arts Gallery in the Holy Spirit Library. The exhibit, which opened Sunday, Nov. 14, is being presented by Cabrini’s Fine Arts Department. Paintings entitled, “Ergon,” “Supplication,” “Waiting for the Sun,” “Charis” and “Sophia” created by the artistic talents of Neilson Carlin will be on exhibit until Dec. 12, 2004.

Carlin’s painting have been on exhibit in various galleries. His portraits and still life are painted in the Classical Realist tradition. He founded the Renaissance Portrait Studio in 1997 to promote traditional portraiture painting. “What all my paintings have in common are almost a theme of meditation. Painting wasn’t a choice for me it was just always there,” Carlin said.

Carlin’s paintings capture the dynamics of fascination and beatury of the human form. His works offer stories of the human condition where he balances out his intuitive talents.

The Italian Renaissance painters and sculptors have always captured his imagination and inspired him in his paintings. His paintings range from oil on linen, charcoal and sanguine. The human figure are central motifs in his work and his artistic style captures them in a way that no other painter has.

Amajority of his paintings have a contemporary feel to them that captures various human forms.