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Lanning Gallery Features Pop Artist James Gill
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The legend of James Gill began in the early sixties with the meteoric rise of this small-town Texan artist. Gill would reach the heights of success and celebrity only to turn his back on it all, to seek an inner peace more lucrative to his soul than any facet of the material world. The story begins again now as James Gill re-emerges - after more than three decades - stronger than ever, to reclaim his place in Contemporary Pop Art history. Exhibitions have been launched across the country to celebrate Gill’s re-emergence; in Arizona, Sedona’s Lanning Gallery is featuring the artist throughout November and a show will be held in Scottsdale, February 20-22. Often using found images of the immediate present as collaged elements in original paintings, Gill distinguished himself amidst fellow artists. Unlike Warhol and Rauschenberg, whose focus was on advertising images, and Rosenquist whose early focus was on older images, Gill provided a more direct narrative to the glamour, unrest and innovation that surrounded him. In 1967 Gill was tapped for inclusion in one of the most prestigious international exhibitions of the day: The São Paulo 9 exhibition, Environment U.S.A.: 1957-1967, which also included Jasper Johns, Lichstenstein, Oldenberg, Rauschenberg, Hopper and Warhol. To critics Gill was “an incisive and startling commentator” [Los Angeles Times] who was able to find the psychological reality that lay beneath surface artificiality. Gill himself observed that, “a person who has the desire to make a work of art and doesn’t know why, has a stirring in his unconscious that is seeking expression.” Current technology has allowed Gill’s use of found imagery to take dramatic leaps: He can now use a base of scanned imagery to combine into a single print, enlarged and printed directly onto canvas. Gill then works with a clear gel medium over this water¬ based ink, drawing the ink up into the gel, giving the same effect as colored acrylics but with a remarkable vibrancy. Additional painting with acrylics is added, employing the same sensual handling of paint that has always marked Gill’s work Today, Gill celebrates the iconic images of the sixties while creating dynamic abstracts in which lips or an eye, objects and swathes of color become the elements which combine to create vibrant and often forceful compositions. “The subject of any artwork is the artist’s perception,” Gill says. “Every piece of art is a kind of emotional self portrait.” The exhibitions will be funded, in part, by the sponsorship of Los Abrigados Resort and Spa (Sedona), Hotel Valley Ho (Scottsdale), and Creative Hands Cuisine (Mesa). Exhibition proceeds will benefit Planning Art for All, an art camp for children founded by Peggy Lanning. For further information contact: Lanning Gallery, www.lanninggallery.com, mail@lanninggallery.com, 928-282-6865 – or – Maureen Herron at MH-Global Communications Network, mhglobal@qwest.net, 602-579-0361. |
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