Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 23 October 2009
William Quinn
October 16 – November 14, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, October 23rd from 5-8 pm.
The exhibition opens Friday, October 16th The exhibition will run through November 14th.
Globetrotting between St Louis, New York and France for more than forty years, William Quinn has continually surprised us with newly invented images, not through a resort to quick novelty but through his natural painterly gift. His achievement as an artist is best understood
as a synthesis of his outlook on life and art, his American beginning and his extended European sojourns. In the process of melding these elements into a mature artistic style, Quinn takes us through a breathtaking history of abstract painting within each canvas. The viewer will find recent works grounded in tensions between aggressive, brutal picture planes yet others have lyrical structures that seem to create a real space, then melt back into dreamy languid forms. As a modernist associated with Abstract Expressionism Quinn asserts painting’s two-dimensionality, but there’s always a suggestion of narrative to be deciphered. Barely perceptible landscape and figurative elements evoking in turn: travel, adventure and romance, lead each painting to tell an unrepeatable tale about the painterly representation of the passage of time and the true location of beauty.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10-6pm
DUANE REED GALLERY
4729 McPHERSON AVE.
ST. LOUIS, MO 63105
314.361.4100
info@duanereedgallery.com
WWW.DUANEREEDGALLERY.COM
October 16 – November 14, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, October 23rd from 5-8 pm.
The exhibition opens Friday, October 16th The exhibition will run through November 14th.
Globetrotting between St Louis, New York and France for more than forty years, William Quinn has continually surprised us with newly invented images, not through a resort to quick novelty but through his natural painterly gift. His achievement as an artist is best understood
as a synthesis of his outlook on life and art, his American beginning and his extended European sojourns. In the process of melding these elements into a mature artistic style, Quinn takes us through a breathtaking history of abstract painting within each canvas. The viewer will find recent works grounded in tensions between aggressive, brutal picture planes yet others have lyrical structures that seem to create a real space, then melt back into dreamy languid forms. As a modernist associated with Abstract Expressionism Quinn asserts painting’s two-dimensionality, but there’s always a suggestion of narrative to be deciphered. Barely perceptible landscape and figurative elements evoking in turn: travel, adventure and romance, lead each painting to tell an unrepeatable tale about the painterly representation of the passage of time and the true location of beauty.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10-6pm
DUANE REED GALLERY
4729 McPHERSON AVE.
ST. LOUIS, MO 63105
314.361.4100
info@duanereedgallery.com
WWW.DUANEREEDGALLERY.COM
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