#WishYouWereHere Group Exhibition Sue Greenwood Fine Art

#WishYouWereHere

S UE GREENWOOD FINE ART 330 north coast hwy laguna beach, ca 92651 SGFA suegreenwoodfineart.com 949.494.0669

July 20 – August 30

Jason Kowalski “New things that have fresh coats of paint and clean lines command our visual awareness. Things that have been used and worn out are often naively labeled unattractive.

“My work is both a statement of the effect of time on a location, as well as a vehicle to arouse attention to things that are often forgotten. Growing up in the Midwest I was constantly surrounded by things that deteriorated over the natural course of time. Human nature dictates that we ignore or look past such blemishes.

Abandoned and left in a state of neglect places and things are consumed and discarded like pieces of trash.”

Off Season, 2015 48" x 24" oil on wood $6,500

Sunset Cove, 2015 11.75" x 18" oil on wood $1.900

Cover: Kay Bradner On the Beach, 2015 36" x 48" oil on aluminum $7,600

Rust Bus, 2015 24" x 24" oil on wood $4,400

Buena Vista Motel, 2015 12.825" x 17.825" oil on wood $2,000

Spirit of Adventure, 2015 16" x 24" oil on wood $2,800

Robert LaDuke Robert LaDuke’s narrative paintings are a combination of memories, dreams and everyday life. Based on America in the 1930-40s, his art usually includes some form of transportation and features the toys which were popular during that era. He is a painter who uses playful images inspired from childhood memories or dreams to create humorous metaphorical paintings.

La Duke explains, “Although realism often dominates my work visually, it is in fact, merely providing a means - a frame of reference - to a metaphoric end.” With his use of often absurd and exaggerated scale relationships of cars or trains, he revives our own vividly playful memories as children but invents enough oddities to

Surfing, 2015 13" x 18" acrylic on panel (framed) $3,300

amuse us today.

Rain, 2015 13" x 30" acrylic on panel $4,900

Francis Livingston “A good portion of my paintings involve that moment when an individual, by themselves, might take the time to make the same observations as I have. “The subjects that I paint, whether they are abandoned movie theaters or amusement parks, must have a sense of time and place. I need to feel the emotion, either good or bad, about the place or subject.�

Color Cones, 2015 30" x 30" oil on panel (framed) $8,700

Triplets, 2014 8" x 8" oil on panel (framed) $1,600

Raspberry Peach, 2013 12.5" x 7.25" oil on panel (framed) $1,800

David Shevlino David Shevlino was born in Jersey City, NJ in 1962. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, he also studied at the Art Students' League in New York. Growing up near NYC, Shevlino was exposed to art as a teenager. He began making trips to art museums at age 15 and developed a love of traditional figurative painting. During this time he found himself especially drawn to the old masters; his interest in modern art was cultivated considerably later. Those early museum visits provided a sense of the origins and history of painting and instilled a love of drawing and the creative process.

In Shevlino's current work, the canvas has increasingly become a place to experiment with different techniques of paint application. He is particularly interested in exploring the line between the traditional representation of the figure and the abstraction of it, and his paintings reflect his simultaneous use of both approaches.

Blue and Yellow, 2015 17" x 19" oil on panel $3,500

Leaping, 2015 32" x 28" oil on canvas $7,000

Upside Down, 2014 29" x 29" oil on canvas $7,000

Kay Bradner “I paint what I love and I love to paint.

“The way I paint is less a process of creating and more one of finding the images...and nudging the loose and splashy underpaintings into some kind of relationship with my crisp line drawings. I use stencils, scraping and painting to try to get to that tipping point where things seem very real but where the motion and abstraction of the initial painting are not lost.

“I am an experimenter. I look for materials and ways of painting that match how I see. Most of my recent paintings are oil on aluminum. I like the way paint moves around on the smooth surface, the ability to score the drawing into the surface with a knife, raising a burr, and the fact I can float the paintings, unbound by frames, out from the wall.”

On the Beach, 2015 36" x 48" oil on aluminum $7,600

Frisbee, 2015 11" x 13.5" oil on paper mounted on aluminum $750

Digging Holes, 2015 22" x 24" oil on paper mounted on aluminum $2,600

Green Wave, 2014 20" x 52" oil on aluminum $4,500

Mary-Austin Klein “The ability to contain vast and deep landscapes into small, flat paintings makes me feel like a wrangler of space. After years of painting cityscapes, purchasing a desert cabin in Twentynine Palms led me to painting panoramic desert landscapes. These paintings became dense with a sense of place, distances stretching on forever and mountains glowing with an inner light.”

“The power to capture the magic of the California desert and contain it within a frame is enthralling. It lets me transport the desert to others,

My California II, 2015 6" x 8" oil on duralar mounted on board (framed) $1,100

sharing the beauty and promoting preservation of these vistas for future generations.

“My paintings are hyper realistic yet painterly with gestured brush strokes.”

Arrival – LAX, 2015 6" x 8" oil on duralar mounted on board (framed) $1,100

California Aqueduct 279.05, 2015 20" x 12" oil on duralar on board (framed) $2,600

Michael Chapman With his own unique language, Michael Chapman interprets the world around him. His themes are thoroughly modern, addressing the perception of reality and it’s mutability. The parallels between his work and that of Edward Hopper are striking: geometric motifs, suggested narratives, and interiors with views through a window. But Chapman describes the relationship as indirect, one that is responsive rather than imitative.

The artist’s themes and subjects – beach scenes, interiors, city streets, trees and parks, and nocturnes – have become increasingly more complex in their content and composition.

Consistently featuring such objects as fire hydrants, chairs, tables, cars, and trains. Chapman continually reconceives their arrangements, explaining that he has a “vocabulary of subject matter” that interests him. “I resolve the same ideas in different ways,” he says.“My mind keeps working on them without being conscious of it. It’s almost as if it’s a matter of time before I will come up with a final solution.”

Breezing, 2015 11" x 20" oil on canvas $6,000

Ocean Park Sunlight, 2015 10" x 13" oil on canvas $4,000

Siddharth Parasnis Siddharth Parasnis’ works are inspired by a vast archive of architectural images that he collects during his travels. He translates the rustic architectural structures on to the canvas, abstracting and simplifying them in order to strike a balance between likeness and abstraction.

Parasnis’ work resonates on both an abstract and representational level, which makes them familiar and foreign at the same time. Born in India, Parasnis received his B.F.A. from the Directorate of Art, Bombay, India and then received his M.F.A. from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California.

Parasnis has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Crocker Art Museum, Coos Art Museum and the Art Museum of Los Gatos. Siddharth Parasnis’s works are held in permanent collections in many corporate and public collections including Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL; South Central Cultural Zone Center, Nagpur, India; and The Kidney Group, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Neighborhood #7, 2015 42" x 30" oil on canvas (framed) $9,000

Traveling through the South #7, 2015 21" x 70" oil on canvas $12,500

Scott Yeskel Los Angeles based artist Scott Yeskel has been painting his love/hate affair with Southern California since his relocation to the area six years ago. Traffic snarls, boxy apartments and occasional car crashes often act as Yeskel’s muse.

It is when Scott switches to his abstract work, his love affair with the spirit and color of the West appear. That’s right, Scott paints both abstract and representational landscapes switching back and forth using many of the same colors and themes. Inspired by mid-century masters such as Diebenkorn and Richter yet original in both content and style, Yeskel’s oil paintings are true statements of contemporary California living.

Yeskel’s frequent visits to Ventura has served as a nice respite to his hectic Hollywood neighborhood. The sea and crisp air have inspired a current mix of colorful visions of the seaside town mixed in, of course, with his iconic L.A. cityscapes.

Modern House Pool,, 2015 48" x 36" oil on canvas (framed) $5,800

Dream House 2, 2015 36" x 48" oil on canvas (framed) $5,800

Geoff Krueger "I paint inspired by the landscape, by what I see. The way light strikes a wall, a cloud shadow that envelopes a field and then moves down into a river valley, the gleam of evening sun on water. All of it changing in an instant as the earth turns and angles of light alter.

That light affects my mood and that is where my paintings begin to take shape.

"The original impetus for painting landscape came in the form of a newspaper article entitled, “Say Goodbye To Your Favorite Bean Field”. Vast tracts of agricultural land were about to give way to houses and shopping centers. Changed forever. My paintings became a way to remember that passing life, not only of the land itself, but also of the people that worked the land. They are painted in a decidedly melancholic, romantic edge. A sad kind of beauty.”

Sundown Row, 2015 36" x 48" oil on canvas $8.500

Sundown Pier, 2015 40" x 30" oil on canvas $6,500

Back Bay Palms, 2015 36" x 30" oil on canvas $6,500

Back Bay Day, 2015 20" x 30" oil on canvas $4,500

Channel, 2015 24" x 36" oil on canvas $6,000

Mark Beck

Santa Anas, 2014 42" x 50" oil on linen $16,000

“My paintings represent an interest I have in the traditional image of the United States – particularly the notion of the ‘American Dream’ and how we go about finding it or losing it. I am inspired by this long held American notion along with a more sober perspective of present-day America: a country that often appears lost, searching and in opposition to its founding principals. I try to make beautiful paintings which convey in a subtle way certain glorifications or realities of our life in America.”