Paintings
| Artist(s) Bruce Rigby |
Ticket Info Admission: Free | Exhibition Date(s) Thursday, January 24 to Sunday, February 24 |
Other Date(s) Opening Reception: Thursday, January 24, 5-7 p.m. Professor of Art at the College of New Jersey, Rigby has been included in over 180 exhibitions nationwide. He has been the recipient of numerous research grants and two sabbatical leaves of absence from the College of New Jersey. He has also received a Fellowship in Painting from The Artists League of Central New Jersey and The New Jersey State Council of the Arts. His work is included in numerous public collections: New Jersey State Museum, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Johnson and Johnson Corporate Center, City Corp Bank, and City Federal Savings Bank. This exhibition will be a retrospective spanning forty years of artistic development in the areas of painting, drawing and printmaking. Rigby is considered one of New Jersey’s important realist painters. He is known for painting pictures of classic cards focusing on the abstract reflective patterns, shapes and forms found on bumpers and high-gloss lacquered finishes. He has also extended his photo-realistic interest in creating paintings that focus on sidewalks, walls and structural fault pattern surfaces. Upon first appearance these paintings appear to be pure abstractions. Closer reviewing we begin to recognize that the colors, shapes, patterns and design come from the experience of close up observation of reality. By focusing on these specific areas, Rigby forces the viewer to reexamine and question the relationship between reality, nature and abstraction. |
