Bruce Everett: A SOLID SERENITY: New Landscapes
September 11 - October 9, 2021
September 11 - October 9, 2021
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George Billis Gallery is pleased to present “A Solid Serenity: New Landscapes,” the gallery’s third exhibition of the painter’s work. The exhibition features Everett’s most recent body of large scale California landscape paintings and continues through October 9th. READ MORE
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Artist Statement 2021
“My reasons for painting the landscape are first and foremost out of a deep emotional need to paint what moves me. Seeing a powerful scene isn't enough. I need to paint it to really be there, and in a way be done with it. But what attracts me to a subject in the first place are the formal elements---the dynamics of the composition, the textures, the shapes, the subtlety of colors and the polarities and rhythms of light and dark. It all adds up to being "of the place"---a connection that can't be explained except by painting it. It is important to me to accurately represent what I experience. I don't want to contrive a landscape so much as discover it. READ MORE |
Artist Biography and Resume
Bruce Everett has had a successful career as a painter for more than forty five years. He has had many one-man shows, including in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California, Oregon, Seattle, New York, Connecticut and Texas. He is also included in numerous books, exhibition catalogs, and publications on Photorealism and landscape painting. His paintings are in many public, private and corporate collections. READ MORE |
PAINTINGS
Bruce Everett, View Toward Edna Valley, 2021, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches, $12,500
Bruce Everett, Calcareous (Paso Robbles), 2019, oil on canvas, 41 x 54 inches, $12,500
Bruce Everett, Salinas River Bed, 2020, oil on canvas, 34 x 48 inches, $11,000
Bruce Everett, Shell Creek, 2020, oil on canvas, 28 x 54 inches, $11,000
