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Welcome to 2010! The New year is here and, with it, new ideas and new possibilities. As we start to see some signs of overcoming the recession, we hope for a more active international arts market. Despite the slow economy, our Lisbon exhibit yielded some sales and, in the end, allowed us to have a better idea of market demands. The experience was great, the connections and contacts invaluable and ,hopefully, long lasting.
It is our goal to continue pursuing both the US and the European markets and to develop relationships with more galleries on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2010 we want to continue offering a variety of modern art of the highest quality and to promote the work and name of our artists before new audiences.
To that extent we are currently working on the possibility of some joint projects with Galeria Alecrim50, in Lisbon, and with a couple of galleries in London Madrid whose names we will announce as partnerships materialize.
In 2010 we intend to promote cultural exchange and explore the expressive potential of technologies, old and new by Portuguese and American artists. We plan to schedule a series of lectures with the purpose of introducing Portuguese contemporary art and artists to the American public.
We also plan to support a project based on the integration of art and technology through the creation of Generative, Electronic, and Interactive art. This project will be carried out by a small group of emerging artists from Portugal and the United States.
In the meantime, we would like to thank DDP Gallery and 9Arte for their continued support. We also want to thank all those who have helped and supported us with ideas, projects, and art work. This list includes all artists associated with Santa-Rita Contemporary Art, the Telfair Museums, the Savannah College of Art and Design, The New Hampshire Institute of Art, Paula Rego and Casa das Historias, The Gulbenkian Foundation, and a multitude of others who, in some way or another, inspired us along the way.
Here’s to a great and art-filled 2010!
A peek at Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city of Portugal, home to a great variety of cultural affairs including visual and performing arts. The last of the Western European capitals to experience a cultural bloom, Lisbon is avidly making up for lost time. All over the city, an upstart generation is laying waste to the sepia-toned stereotypes and gleefully constructing edgy and forward-looking ventures amid the time-worn monuments and quaint cobbled streets.
Sept. 29- October 30, eleven American artists will join Lisbon’s art scene and have their works displayed at Galeria 9arte.
David Murphree
Born in rural Mississippi, David Murphree was raised with an abiding concern for the natural riches of the Deep South. At the same time, hours spent in the laboratory with his father, a pioneer in the field of plasma physics, stimulated the artist’s fascination with actualizing the forces of nature through the lens of physical science. Murphree is quick to point out, “These influences combined form the central theme of my painting: the land and the battles it wages with the technologies of our age.”
Aiming to “push psychic and metaphysical impressions into a willful embodiment of existing with the world,” Murphree’s paintings represent visual memories accrued over two decades as an architectural and industrial designer in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. Trained in the Fine Arts and Architecture at Mississippi State University and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, Murphree has been affiliated with architects Peter Eisenman, Scoggins Elam Bray, and Mockbee Coker Howorth, and has taught design at the California State Polytechnic University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Tulane University, and University of Arkansas.
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Duane Gardner is a native of Dallas, Texas , and currently lives and has his studio in Fayetteville Arkansas. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts at the University of North Texas, in Denton. He was nominated for Yale at Norfolk Fellowship.
Gardner has always been attracted to abstract painting and the Abstract Expressionist movement has been the strongest influence on his work. Early on in his painting career he realized that for him painting was a combination of problem solving with the process of painting.
His work is marked by constant editing, adding and subtracting of paint, lines, and shapes and allows the history of the painting to be seen. The viewer can see the decisions that were made to achieve the final product, the evidence of solving the problem. But it also makes the viewer wonder what may be going on underneath the images they see.
Duane Gardner participated in several group and individual exhibits and his work is represented in private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe. Recent exhibit history includes: Without Evidence movies
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