Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Gerhard Richter


Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932 to a middle class family. Like many Germans of his generation, his relatives were involved in the Nazi movement; his mother's brother, Uncle Rudi died a young Nazi officer, while Richter's mentally disabled aunt was imprisoned in a Hitler euthanasia camp. Rigorous ideology and death have haunted Richter since he was just a child, perhaps causing his strong dislike for ideology of any kind and underpinning the attraction that nature, as an indiscriminate force, holds for him.
Support from his mother encouraged him to become an artist during his mid-teens and he embarked on a classical education at the Dresden Art Academy in Communist East Germany. Years later and a few months prior to the erection of the Berlin Wall, he and his wife fled with only a suitcase to Düsseldorf in West Germany. From 1961 to 1964, Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Karl Otto Gotz.
Richter's first exhibition in the U.S. took place at the Reinhard Onnasch Gallery in 1973. Fifteen years later in 1988 he was given his first North American retrospective organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2001 the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibited a retrospective of Richter's paintings called "Forty Years of Painting". Curated by Robert Storr, the exhibition was critically acclaimed.
HE DOES A LOT OF DIFFERENT STYLES OF PAINTING. CLICK HERE TO GO TO HIS WEBSITE.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

YOU ARE HERE: New Prints by James Bailey


the brink gallery
111 w front street
missoula, mt 59802
Opening Reception: September 7 from 5-8
406-728-5251
gallery hours:
thursday/friday/saturday 12-5pm




You can also check out additional works by James Bailey at the following venues this month.

"Babel", Solo Exhibition at Concordia University, St. Paul, MN;  Up through October 7, 2012
"UM Faculty Exhibition", The Gallery of Visual Arts, The University of Montana; Sept. 4-21, 2012
 (opens this Thursday at the Gallery of Visual Arts from 5-7pm.)
"Across the Dividie IV: The New Boondocks", COCA, Georgetown Gallery, Seattle, WA up till Sept. 20
"East/West" Contemporary American Prints at The University of Wyoming, up through Sept 15.
"Invasive Paper", Bozeman, MT Sept. 4-30.