Daily Archives: September 15, 2009

Cruising With Good Company

PARK WEST GALLERY Director, Morris Shapiro, recently set sail with a group Park West art collectors – a few Park West artists even made surprise guest appearances at the art auctions! Seems you just never know who you’ll meet cruising along with Park West Gallery!
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Maya Green. Purple Serenade. 2009. Park West Gallery.Dear Morris,

Thank you so much for inviting us on the Alaskan cruise, and for extending your gracious hospitality to our families.

We really enjoyed meeting you, your wife and talented daughter, and fabulous Park West team.

First class all the way!”

Liz & Ken P.
Toronto, Ontario

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Cézanne and American Modernism at Montclair Art Museum

Paul Cézanne once said, “I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in museums.” Cézanne was a highly influential figure in 20th century art, a pioneer in the Post-Impressionist movement and inspiration for the Cubist movement; his legacy in the art world remains firmly in place to this day. Discover more about Paul Cézanne and your favorite artists at Park West Gallery biography pages >>

Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibemus Quarry. c. 1897.

MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY — The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) presents Cézanne and American Modernism, the first exhibition to examine fully the influence of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) upon modern American artists from 1907 to 1930. The exhibition will explore the critical function American artists and others played in establishing the reputation of Cézanne, who has been universally acclaimed as the definitive bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the modern art movements of the 20th century.

As the largest, most ambitious exhibition in the 95-year history of the Museum, Cézanne and American Modernism comprises 131 works, including 18 works by Cézanne and paintings, works on paper, photographs, and archival documents representing 34 American artists, as well as critics.

Cézanne and American Modernism is currently on view through January 3, 2010.

For more information, please visit www.montclairartmuseum.org 

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An Artist’s Perpetual Quest for Inspiration

DOMINIC PANGBORN is best described as an “Evolutionist” - an artist who believes art should reflect a current mood, expression and point in time. With that in mind, Park West Gallery recently requested an update from Pangborn about his current projects and artistic explorations. The artist also provided some fascinating insight into his creative process and shared some thoughts on being represented by Park West Gallery.

Dominic Pangborn. Embrace II. 2008. Park West Gallery.The creative process…
On his perpetual quest to discover and expand his horizons on life and art, artist Dominic Pangborn never stops creatively exploring new mediums, new techniques, and new ideals. He generates over 2,500 to 3,000 drawings per year, which serve as inspirations for his paintings. His paintings are diverse, ranging from non-representational abstracts to photo-realism.

His favorite style to work in is his own: personal figurative expressionism in multi-media. Working on wood panel vs. canvas allows him to carve and etch into the surface, add texture with unique proprietary materials, charcoal, acrylic, oil pastel crayon, inks and oil to name few. 

Pangborn’s artwork captures his imagination and unending creativity, no matter what medium he chooses to work in. For him, it’s all about expressing his inner soul. As he says, “art of the mind and not just the eye on the surface.”

When Pangborn looks back at his drawings from the past, he revisits them with the same curiosity as other onlookers; he often wonders what he was thinking while he was creating them. 

Dominic Pangborn. The Female Figure. Mixed media sculpture. 2009. Park West Gallery.Activities and interests…
Panborn is currently interested in creating life size sculptures in clay; these sculptures are fired and then cast in bronze. He creates relief sculptures of his abstract and figurative expressionism while continually creating two-dimensional works.

Pangborn’s artworks have recently become a part of many large, corporate collections and are often included in many of the companies’ community outreach programs.

Pangborn’s new necktie collection is currently being exhibited in New York; he has many other ideas in the works which will utilize his entrepreneurship skills.

Being the active person that he is, the artist travels the world with his wife Delia as much as he can. He is passionate about meeting new people on these travels; he enjoys meeting new collectors and sharing their stories.

Lately, the artist has taken a great interest in visiting lesser-known museums in the small cities he finds himself in.

The artist’s relationship with Park West Gallery…
Park West Gallery connects Dominic Pangborn together with the art collectors he normally would never get a chance to meet; this, he says, is his most cherished benefit of being represented by Park West.

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Artist Birthdays September 15 – JACOB PHILIPP HACKERT

JACOB HACKERT  (September 15, 1737 – April 28, 1807)

  • Nationality: German
  • Field: Painting
  • Art Movement: Classicism, Romanticism
  •  ARTiFact: He sensitively upheld the tradition of ideal landscape painting and meticulously reproduced the realistic details in nature.
  • Artist Quote: “Some landscapes give us exceptional pleasure when they represent localities where great deeds, such as battles, or other grand historical events took place.”
  • Important Artwork (shown below): Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 1774. 

Jacob Hackert. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1774. 1774.

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