Neltje: Wide Open Wylder Gallery
December 5, 2008– February 21, 2009
Neltje: Wide Open
Wylder Gallery
December 5, 2008– February 21, 2009
Reception December 5, 2008 - 5:30 – 7:30 pm*
December 5, 2008 through February 21, 2009, the Wylder Gallery at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art will provide area residents with an escape from the sublimity of fall and winter with Neltje: Wide Open anexhibition of monumental paintings by Neltje—one of Wyoming’s most accomplished and celebrated painters. The expansiveness of the artist’s canvases, color use and brush strokes are evocative of the vastness and vibrancy of nature. Viewers, young and old alike, will be entranced by this positive approach to painting, which seems to say anything is possible.
Of her own work, the artist states: “I create because I am driven to define moments, emotional responses to the natural world, and the chaos that seems to be life’s breath. My senses live on red alert. All of them. I am sustained by, obsessed with, my soul filled to brimming virtually daily by the grand, the infinitesimal, the lightest and the darkest of images and insights. My passions fierce and demanding enforce me to forge a whole of reverie and reality. I paint.”
In addition to viewing the exhibition, area residents will benefit from visiting first-hand with this award winning artist during a free public reception honoring Neltje 5:30 – 7:30pm Friday, December 5, 2008 and from a painting/collage workshop instructed by Neltje the following Saturday, December 6 from 9:30am until 3:00pm. Class size is limited to 12 participants to allow for one on one instruction from Neltje. Call Lisa Gross, Curator of Education, at 727 – 8255 to reserve a spot in the workshop. The workshop is recommended for teens and adults at all levels of art experience. Workshop fee is $50.00 for museum members or $55.00 for non-members. The workshop fee includes art supplies and participants are encouraged to bring photos, pictures, or small items to attach to artwork. Participants will break for lunch. To learn more about this artist, visit www.neltje.com or down load the exhibition brochure here.
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