"Land, Water and Sky" Exhibition

First Street Gallery

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First Street Gallery presents an invitational exhibition featuring recent works by three of its former members, Les Reker, Pearl Rosen and Rhea Sanders.

Les Reker is a landscape painter, whose en plein air acrylic studies form the basis for larger oil compositions created in the studio. The works in this exhibition were painted in Pennsylvania and in Texas. Reker received a BFA in painting and art history from Indiana University and an MFA in painting from Queens College of the City University of New York. His work is primarily influenced by the New York School of realists, particularly artists Gabriel Laderman, Robert Birmelin, and Philip Pearlstein. Reker’s works have been exhibited in New York and elsewhere for over 30 years and have become part of many public and private collections. He has been professor of studio art and art history and a museum director.

Pearl Rosen, a landscape painter and printmaker received her Masters of Fine Arts degree at Brooklyn College. She first showed with First St Gallery in 1982 and has had an on-going career in art, showing her work in various media: oil paint, acrylic, watercolor, pastel and printmaking in lithography and mono-printing. Her works are in numerous private and corporate collections. Ms. Rosen has concentrated on imagery and compositions that are inspired by landscape that often focus on the effects of light and atmosphere. Works in this show represent her recent work in acrylic and mixed media in both en plein air and interpretive work in the studio. Her landscape monotypes and photo etching prints will also be included in this show. These works have been inspired by the coastal areas of Long Island, New York and Puget Sound in Washington State. Of her work, she states: “I seek places where the effects of light and atmosphere are prominent with few man-made structures. My recent landscapes in print and paint vary in the particulars of a place with more consideration given to an emotional as well as literal response.”

Rhea Sanders was born in Charleston, S.C., in 1923. She studied art with Maurice Sterne and, much later, with Philip Pearlstein. Originally a still life artist working in egg tempera, she currently paints the Manhattan skies and skyline in acrylic, on gesso-coated wood panels. She lived and painted in Europe for a decade and is now a New Yorker with a view from the 15th floor.

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Schedule

from January 04, 2011 to January 29, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-01-08 from 14:00 to 17:00

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