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Elder
Gallery
presents
Tom Perkinson
Paintings
of Color & Life
Evening
Snowfall
13" x 25" oil on
panel
Elder Gallery in Charlotte’s Historic SouthEnd Arts
District presents the work of Santa Fe artist, Tom Perkinson.
Paintings of Color and Life is
Perkinson’s third one-man exhibition at the gallery.
The artist will be present during the opening event on Friday,
May 4, 2007, to discuss his latest work.
Generally, Perkinson’s impressionist paintings are created
from his imagination and are painted intuitively. For his
2007 exhibition he has produced a number of paintings which
reflect upon his recent travels to Europe. He is not painting
so much a specific location, but rather evoking the feeling
of a convincing scene. He paints a hillside and visualizes
children running down a hillside and then paints them. The
artist strives to make a landscape stand on its own before
introducing the figures, somewhat like building a stage and
then bringing on the actors.
“When I was a teenager in rural Indiana, I studied all
the French Impressionist in the only art book in the high
school library”, says Perkinson. “Fortunately,
this book was in color and it was huge. I trained myself to
identify each artist by his paintings. I would have my friends
open the book to any page and I would talk about that artist.
The Impressionists were my favorites.”
Paintings of Color and Life is
an amalgamation of the artist’s thoughts of urban landscapes
painted in the Impressionist’s style, some in oils and
others in pastels. The paintings take the viewer to urban
landscapes that are dominated by horse-drawn carriages, street
lamps, and atmospheric conditions that set a romantic scene
reminiscent of the late nineteen century and early twentieth
century. Park scenes at dusk and carriages entering the city
on a rainy, foggy night, drawn to the lights of the city are
two examples of the subject matter included in the exhibition.
Perkinson’s paintings hang in the collections of the
former First Lady Betty Ford; Nancy Sinatra; Mrs. Bob Hope;
Mrs. John Forsythe; Charlton Heston; The Museum of New Mexico;
University of New Mexico Art Museum; and many other personal
and corporate collections around the nation.
“I am creating paintings that reflect a singular American
experience. It is my desire to communicate my personal artistic
statement clearly, through painting scenes that celebrate
the beauty and innocence of life” says Perkinson.
Paintings of Color and Life will
be on display at Elder Gallery through May 30, 2007.
Scroll
down to view partial list of painting in exhibition.
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