Philip Koch "Earth's Shadow"
George Billis Gallery
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"Think of a time when just for a moment you were completely happy. When the pieces of your life fit together and made a wonderful sense.
Such intense emotions always have a setting. A painting can hold that place and recall for us for those feelings. I am painting places where I have experienced intense happiness.
My paintings are a contemporary re-imagining of the romantic panoramas of the 19th century American painters of the Hudson River School. These early painters found the New England mountains and coast a springboard to forge a powerful art. The land they painted seemed to them a new
In our time with its ecological degradation, the symbolic value of this Eden seems at once more remote and yet more urgently needed. Wilderness and the meeting of the land and the seas are among the most deeply buried chapters of our common origins. They are portraits of an all but forgotten part of ourselves. These paintings are a tool, a bit of practical magic to help the us reconnect with our natures and our deeper resources".
Philip Koch
[Image: Philip Koch "Deer Isle" (2008) oil on panel, 36 x 72 in.]
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Schedule
from December 11, 2012 to January 19, 2013
Opening Reception on 2012-12-13 from 18:00 to 20:00