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"Plein Air Lawrence"
Paintings by Tyler Larson
When:
- Sundays from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
- Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Fridays from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Event is ongoing: Until Friday, September 5, 2008
Where: Wonder Fair: Art Gallery & How!, 803 Mass. St., Lawrence
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Art | Ongoing exhibit
Description: All paintings done from life, in and around Lawrence, in a single sitting. Or in French terms, "plein air."
July 25th - September 5th
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY 25th, 6-9pm
Food & Drink provided by Far Out! Catering
Soundscape created by Tyler Larson
From the Wonder Fair: After two years of productive living in Brooklyn, Tyler Larson has embraced his exodus to find the nomadic spirit in a current culmination of painting styles, capturing a very vibrant estival. Lawrence, where he's had success before, is again the setting, and friends the subjects. Despite a newly enriched perspective and widening experimentation of preferred techniques, he still embodies the same refreshing vitality and peace, effectively transporting art world capitols with him wherever he goes.
It is worthwhile to celebrate Tyler's toasts to artists that have inspired him in recent times; the existential nonchalance and direct brush of our contemporary Steve Keene, an American with the capacity to harness the obscene insanity of our times and channel it into a pursuit of life, liberty, and very concrete visions of happiness. Matisse and the fauves, especially 'The Joy of Living', in an attempt to reframe early pre-psychedelia and give free reign to impulse. The use of thinned out pigments by new york-based painter Barnaby Furnas, whom Tyler assisted a bit in the Big Chip, has lead to an almost water color approach to oils, achieving brightness in the brightness of plein air and leaving no doubt as to the direct serendipidousness one can celebrate in relaying the visual by way of such an improvised method of art making. Larson's neo-neo-neoclassical comments on the Bull House lawn create a figure/architecture narrative nod in no direction other than that of french master David.
Event posted July 16, 2008
Last updated July 23, 2008
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