"Celebrating the Portrait as Art"

Nan Talking, oil on linen, 32" x 26"

When I was in my 20s I was told that portraiture was commercial art and that I could not be taken seriously as an artist if I kept on painting portraits. Having lived through that era, continuing to paint portraits while determinedly showing other work in galleries, it's satisfying to know the portrait is once again appreciated as fine art.

 Gary Haynes of Haynes Galleries takes portraiture and figurative art seriously. He attends the annual conference of the Portrait Society of America, and work by many of its award winning artists are hanging in his gallery. This month, Haynes Galleries will be hosting a group show:

Celebrating the Portrait as Art

April 18-May 24, 2014

Reception Friday, April 18, 5:00-7:30 p.m.

1600 Division Street, Nashville, TN

The show will open first in the Nashville gallery space and travel to Thomaston, Maine this summer. Here is a link to all the pertinent information: http://haynesgalleries.com/hgSite/pages/newsAndEvents/newsAndEvents-PortraitAsArtNash.html

I will have one portrait in the Nashville show. (I don't show in Haynes' Maine location since I show at the Dowling Walsh Gallery up the road.)

With portraits by many outstanding artists including Ellen Cooper, Lea Colie Wight, Aaron Westerberg,  Terry Strickland, Linda Tracey Brandon, Joseph Bolderer, Suchitra Bhosle, Diane Feissel, Alia El-Bermani, Stephen Bauman, Katie O'Hagan,  Lisa Gloria, Linda Lee Nelson, T. J. Cunningham, Cindy Procious, and many others, this will be a show worth seeing!

A Treasure Trove of Art. . .Now at Haynes Galleries

Haynes Galleries is holding their small works show, and it promises to be a sellout. A Treasure Trove of Small Things opens November 22 in Nashville, Tennessee. 

I urge anyone who can get to Nashville to attend the opening, or at least the show, before it closes. Judging from the artists whose works will be displayed, this promises to be a sellout show.

Three paintings of mine will be in the show. They are all plein air landscapes, painted this summer.

 Breakfast at the Huttchen, oil on linen on panel, 10.5" x 12"

 Three Roofs, Horn Hill, oil on aluminum panel, 7.5" x 15"

  Whitehead looking towards Gull Rock, oil on linen, 18" x 14"