Elder Art Gallery presents

“Sibling Rivalry”
Paintings by brothers Patrick & Sean Glover
Opening date: Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Brothers Patrick and Sean Glover are typical siblings who agree and disagree on many issues. However, when it comes to art they have very distinct and different tastes and styles.

Sibling Rivalry will feature new work by the brothers Glover and will provide each artist the opportunity to demonstrate the unique quality of his own work. The brothers are native New Yorkers and their work reflects their life of growing up in rural upstate New York. Both will admit that they are products of their environment and that their growing up in the 1970s and 1980s has had a tremendous effect upon their painting styles.

Both are formally trained, Sean at The Ringling School of Art in Sarasota majoring in illustration and Patrick at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City with an emphasis on painting.

Patrick’s work has appeared on the cover of Country Living magazine as well as in an article in Architectural Digest magazine. He uses pop and advertising images in his paintings and mixes in other familiar elements. Of his work, Patrick states “I am convinced that media images are one of the only shared perceptual realities that we have in this culture. Think about it, every emotion, every event that will likely ever happen to us in our lives, we have already experienced in movies or on television, usually before we have in reality.  We are programmed to a degree by images we have been seeing since before we could communicate.  I recently heard a report on NPR about teens and their reactions to portrayals of sexual situations in the media, and the point was made that the teens knew the script of a first sexual  encounter because they had seen it so often on TV and in movies, even if they had not experienced that for themselves.”

Sean’s paintings are greatly influenced by his training as an illustrator. Many of the wildlife paintings within Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, can be attributed to Sean. Sibling Rivalry will include his Native American portraits as well as the original of an image commissioned by South Carolina Educational Television. Collectors will be pleased to find the original paintings of Garbage Pail Kids cards in the exhibition.

Sibling Rivalry will open with an artists’ reception on Wednesday, December 10th, from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. The exhibition runs through January 10, 2004 and is open to the public.

Elder Art Gallery
1427 South Boulevard
Charlotte, North Carolina 28203
Phone: 704-370-6337
www.elderart.com

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