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Ann Korologos Gallery presents In the Mind’s Eye, a group exhibition presenting unique approaches to Western landscape painting. Margaretta Cesar, Peter Campbell, Cap Pannell, Deborah Paris, and Marie Figge Wise define the terrain with mood, mystery, alternate perspectives, and great imagination. The exhibition is on view from August 26 through September 20, 2023, at Ann Korologos Gallery in historic downtown Basalt, CO, and virtually at korologosgallery.com.
“Each artist featured In the Mind’s Eye paints not what’s before them, but what’s inside them,” shares gallery director, Sue Edmonds. “The dance of light across clouds and reflected across distant and close landscapes, evokes a mood and impression upon each of these artists who paint what they feel, and see, in the mind’s eye.”
Margaretta Caesar is a Colorado painter raised in Pennsylvania. Working from photographic references, Caesar begins with an underpainting, often of red and earthen tones. Caesar builds the landscape on canvas, creating dimensionality with thick brushstrokes and a vibrant palette. Her colorful, nature-based aesthetic is at home amongst the Fauves and the Taos Society of Artists, but it is the artist’s own voice that emerges.
Peter Campbell is a Durango-based painter who studies the world from his self-designed easel, exploring fleeting moments that catch the eye and elicit an intimate and personal reaction, to bring the outside into a painting, imbuing it with elements that bring it alive. Campbell’s landscapes are abstract views of nature, a perspective informed by his photographic background. A limited color palette and omission of details result in a dream-like mood, open to each viewer’s interpretation as he reveals moments of light across the clouds and distant landscape.
Cap Pannell lives in Dallas, Texas, and has been a designer, illustrator, and painter for over 35 years. Pannell works in oil on canvas and does multi-media printmaking, interpreting nature from his photographs and drawings. Edgar Degas, J.M.W. Turner, and Andrew Wyeth are among his most admired influences, and like them, he seeks to record moods and moments. His representational landscapes focus on a simple, dramatic statement celebrating light and the seasons in the south, east, and west.
Deborah Paris is a Texas-based American landscape painter whose work reflects an intense, intuitive connection to the natural world and its rhythms. Paris returned to her call as an artist after twenty years as a practicing lawyer, and her paintings depict the vibrancy she feels in the Aspen groves of Colorado and the woods of Texas. Based on a foundation of intense observation, drawing, memory and imagination, Deborah Paris produces both bold abstract works and quiet tonalist scenes, all full of mystery and mood.
Marie Figge Wise is based in both Texas and Colorado. The diffused, tonal quality of Wise’s work encourages the viewer to slow down and feel the calm, quiet of the moment in her plein air paintings. Art has always influenced Figge Wise’s life, cultivated at first by her family’s involvement with Davenport’s Figge Art Museum, and later pursued through her studies at The Art Students League of New York, Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO and art history in Italy.
In the Mind’s Eye is on view from August 26 to September 20, 2023, ‘under the clocktower’ in historic downtown Basalt and virtually at korologosgallery.com. For questions, hours, or private viewing times, please call (970) 927-9668 or email art@korologosgallery.com.
