Bruno David Gallery: Thursday, 4 October 2018
RALPH NAGEL: Being There
October 4 – November 17, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 4. 5-7 pm
Bruno David Gallery continues its 13th season with a solo exhibition by Ralph Nagel. The exhibition Being There will feature an overview of his 15 years of practice and travels from around the world.
A follower of the nineteenth century Barbizon School, Hudson River School, the Impressionists and an en plein air advocate, Ralph Nagel is interested in creating works that balance between spontaneity and control. An admirer of the nineteenth forerunners Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, John Constable and Théodore Rousseau, he is an avid “en plein air” artist who reasons that to seize the closeness and likeness of an outside setting at a specific moment one must be outside to do so. Nagel says, “Truly seeing the subject of my art only takes place once the painting begins. It's about that day, that moment. I would be lost if I knew the end when I begin. And as in life, painting is about having the courage to take risks towards an outcome that is unknown.”
The exhibition will also feature a short documentary screening in the New Media Room (4 min.) of an interview with Ralph Nagel by Dominic Dezzutti. The documentary originally aired in 2012 and was produced by the Denver Public Television station.
Public Hours: Monday through Friday 11:00 – 6:00 pm and open by appointment
October 4 – November 17, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 4. 5-7 pm
Bruno David Gallery continues its 13th season with a solo exhibition by Ralph Nagel. The exhibition Being There will feature an overview of his 15 years of practice and travels from around the world.
A follower of the nineteenth century Barbizon School, Hudson River School, the Impressionists and an en plein air advocate, Ralph Nagel is interested in creating works that balance between spontaneity and control. An admirer of the nineteenth forerunners Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, John Constable and Théodore Rousseau, he is an avid “en plein air” artist who reasons that to seize the closeness and likeness of an outside setting at a specific moment one must be outside to do so. Nagel says, “Truly seeing the subject of my art only takes place once the painting begins. It's about that day, that moment. I would be lost if I knew the end when I begin. And as in life, painting is about having the courage to take risks towards an outcome that is unknown.”
The exhibition will also feature a short documentary screening in the New Media Room (4 min.) of an interview with Ralph Nagel by Dominic Dezzutti. The documentary originally aired in 2012 and was produced by the Denver Public Television station.
Public Hours: Monday through Friday 11:00 – 6:00 pm and open by appointment
Bruno David Gallery
7513 Forsyth Boulevard
Clayton, MO 63105
314.696.2377
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