Recent Work by Irish Artist Eamon Coleman presented at Webster University’s Cecille R. Hunt Gallery

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What/Who:

The recent work by Irish artist Eamon Coleman is presented at Webster University’s Cecille R. Hunt Gallery. Colman’s paintings explore the interdependency of nature and nurture in landscape painting. Using striking luminescent colors, each of which compiles landscapes of organic forms and delicate painterly strokes, Colman speaks in a personalized visual language. Each painting tells of a specific physical journey or exploration of both familiar and exotic landscapes —Africa, Ireland and the United States—yet each painting is ambiguous enough to allow the imagination to wander. As a devoted colorist, he also explores the painting’s “otherness” through defining a sense of place, both personally and historically through a layering of symbolic gestures. His work presents a flattening ‘topography’ of symbols, but also a multi-layered cartography of paint. The work then acts as a way of articulating his personal relationship to his chosen subject. Coleman lives and works in Kilkenny, Ireland.

Financial assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency And with support from the Regional Arts Commission

When:

November 21-December 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, from 6–8 p.m.
Hours: Monday - Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. or by appointment.

Where:

Cecille R. Hunt Gallery
Visual Arts Studio, Webster University 8342 Big Bend Blvd.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or by appointment

Cost:

Exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

More Info:

Call 968-7171 or art@webster.edu

www.websterhuntgallery.blogspot.com

Eamon Coleman's selected solo exhibitions include: River Run Pass Tumble Down, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford, 2008; Vantage, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2007; Breath of the River, Galeri Caernarfon Cyf, Wales, 2006;  Between Bog and a Sagging Wall, Vangard Gallery, Cork, 2006;  Knot of Souls, South Tipperary Arts Center, Clonmel, Co. 

Tipperary Salt River, St. David’s University, Lampeter, Wales, 2004; Africa 22 - 35 S, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2004; Walking Vermont, Vermont Studio Centre USA, 2002;  Rain on Water, Rubicon Gallery , Dublin, 2000. Selected group exhibitions: Colour Fields, Draiocht, Dublin, 2007; Nicholas Gallery, Belfast, 2007; Art Miami, Hillsboro Fine Art, USA, 2007; Eigse, Carlow, 2005; Boyle Arts Festival, 2005; Kilcock Art Gallery, 2005; Amber Arts Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005; Eigse, Carlow, 2004; RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, 2004.