Bernard Langlais “Works on Paper”
Alexandre Gallery
[Image: Bernard Langlais "Tiger" (ca. 1970s) oil and pencil on paper 14.5 x 17.5 in.]
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This exhibition will present twenty-seven selected drawings and paintings on paper that depict Langlais’s classic imagery of animals, both wild and domestic, from the 1970s along with earlier examples of landscape, still-life and figures that fuse mid-century modernist styles with the artist’s own rural roots and unique folk sensibility. This gallery exhibition is presented in conjunction with the first museum retrospective of his work, “Bernard Langlais,” organized by Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (opening July 19, 2014).
Langlais is best known for his often monumental wood wall-reliefs and carved constructions of his cacophonous un-Peaceable Kingdoms of bears, horses, elephants, birds and other assorted wild and barn animals. His painting style is bold, simplified and immediate. Images are defined with bright color and bold authoritative brush marks and line.
Langlais was born in 1921. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His early work was exhibited in a one-person exhibition at Leo Castelli and was included in the 1961 Museum of Modern Art exhibition “The Art of Assemblage” before returning to Maine in 1966 to live with his wife Helen on their 90 acre property. He died in 1977 at the age of 56. This exhibition of works on paper marks the gallery’s second of Langlais’s work.
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from May 29, 2014 to July 18, 2014