Cleve Gray “The Hawaiian Paintings”

Cleve Gray “The Hawaiian Paintings”

Loretta Howard Gallery

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Loretta Howard Gallery is pleased to present Cleve Gray: The Hawaiian Paintings.

In 1972, Cleve Gray’s “Hawaii” series was shown at the Betty Parsons Gallery, the seminal gallery for the first generation of Abstract Expressionists in New York. Reevaluating these works nearly fifty years later, they clearly retain the same rich and seductive qualities, an abstract distillation of the natural beauty of Hawaii.

A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies this exhibition with an introduction by Vincent McGee, a close family friend, and colleague in the anti-war movement who stayed with them in Lanikai. McGee writes:

The paintings Cleve made during and following the time in Hawaii are a feast of verticals. In them we see and feel the up and down motion of water, of light, of volcanoes, lava flow and creeping greenery. We can touch the red soil, the moonlit shadows of mountains against the sea and sky; the blues and whites of water falling down in contrast to the sea pounding on flat shores.

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