Current Exhibition
July 5 - August 7, 2010
Summer Group Show
Giancarlo Bertini
Pegan Brooke
Arturo Mallmann
John McNamara
Andreas Nottebohm
Daniel Tousignant
Tim Weldon
July 5 - August 7, 2010
Summer Group Show
Giancarlo Bertini
Pegan Brooke
Arturo Mallmann
John McNamara
Andreas Nottebohm
Daniel Tousignant
Tim Weldon
August 15 - September 9, 2010
Greg Ragland: Fanciful Flight
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Gallery Bergelli is featuring new paintings by Greg Ragland. The work will be on display through September 9, 2010.
Greg Ragland's paintings are interpretations of spontaneous experiences in nature. The artist invites the viewer to get lost in the calming beauty of these spontaneous experiences.
With an addiction to light and movement, nature feeds Ragland's passion of watching clouds move, birds cross overhead, the rushing of water below and the fish within. The skies overhead and the rivers and streams below fueled a love of color and movement. The colors evoke moods and feelings causing imaginations to flow. This series of paintings is a contemporary take on typically traditional subject matter. The rendered birds exist juxtaposed in the minimal composition of the highly developed surfaces.
Greg was born in Augusta Georgia and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied architecture at Arizona State University, received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California and his MFA from the University of Utah. Prior to settling in Park City, Utah in 1990, Greg worked as an artist in Los Angeles and New York City.
Greg Ragland: Fanciful Flight
View Greg Ragland's artwork
Gallery Bergelli is featuring new paintings by Greg Ragland. The work will be on display through September 9, 2010.
Greg Ragland's paintings are interpretations of spontaneous experiences in nature. The artist invites the viewer to get lost in the calming beauty of these spontaneous experiences.
With an addiction to light and movement, nature feeds Ragland's passion of watching clouds move, birds cross overhead, the rushing of water below and the fish within. The skies overhead and the rivers and streams below fueled a love of color and movement. The colors evoke moods and feelings causing imaginations to flow. This series of paintings is a contemporary take on typically traditional subject matter. The rendered birds exist juxtaposed in the minimal composition of the highly developed surfaces.
Greg was born in Augusta Georgia and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied architecture at Arizona State University, received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California and his MFA from the University of Utah. Prior to settling in Park City, Utah in 1990, Greg worked as an artist in Los Angeles and New York City.
October 22 - November 25, 2010
Mario Gomez
Reception: October 22, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
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Gallery Bergelli is pleased to present "A Mood of Silence" - an exhibition of new paintings by Chilean artist Mario Gomez. This will be Gomez's first solo show at Gallery Bergelli. Opening on October 22, with the artist reception from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, the exhibition will continue through November 25, 2010.
After learning the basics of design and painting Mario Gomez began to look at his subject with new eyes - creating a new language of forms and relationships within his painting. His paintings start with a representation of paper forms from the artist's sketchbook which creates an illusion of "jumping of the page" with simulated crumpled paper with rough borders and textual complexity. The source of his images and fantasies and often autobiographical and reminiscent of his childhood. Images of paper ships, the circus whirls, and the priest who rode the bicycle evoke memories of his growing years. Then he breaks up these images and spaces and creates a new synthesis of them. He invokes circular spaces - the tomems, birdman, and horseman - that are symbolic of biblical and religious aspects of life. Like Chagall and Magritte, whose works have inspired him, Gomez creates a world of fantasy re-assembling familiar images into new combinations and interactions.
Mario Gomez was born in 1968 in Concepcion, Chile. He is married and the father of two daughters and currently living in Isla De Maipo, Chile. Raised by his father, an engineer, and his mother, an art teacher, Mario originally aspired to be an architect but his love for the arts and creative spirit led him to study of fine arts. He attended the School of Art at Pontificial Catholic Univercity of Chile to study under Chile's influential painters, such as Balmes, Gracia Barrios, and Ciengfuegos. He has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in his native Chile and also internationally in Japan, New Zeland, Finland, various European countries, and the United States.
Mario Gomez
Reception: October 22, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
View Mario Gomez's artwork
Gallery Bergelli is pleased to present "A Mood of Silence" - an exhibition of new paintings by Chilean artist Mario Gomez. This will be Gomez's first solo show at Gallery Bergelli. Opening on October 22, with the artist reception from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, the exhibition will continue through November 25, 2010.
After learning the basics of design and painting Mario Gomez began to look at his subject with new eyes - creating a new language of forms and relationships within his painting. His paintings start with a representation of paper forms from the artist's sketchbook which creates an illusion of "jumping of the page" with simulated crumpled paper with rough borders and textual complexity. The source of his images and fantasies and often autobiographical and reminiscent of his childhood. Images of paper ships, the circus whirls, and the priest who rode the bicycle evoke memories of his growing years. Then he breaks up these images and spaces and creates a new synthesis of them. He invokes circular spaces - the tomems, birdman, and horseman - that are symbolic of biblical and religious aspects of life. Like Chagall and Magritte, whose works have inspired him, Gomez creates a world of fantasy re-assembling familiar images into new combinations and interactions.
Mario Gomez was born in 1968 in Concepcion, Chile. He is married and the father of two daughters and currently living in Isla De Maipo, Chile. Raised by his father, an engineer, and his mother, an art teacher, Mario originally aspired to be an architect but his love for the arts and creative spirit led him to study of fine arts. He attended the School of Art at Pontificial Catholic Univercity of Chile to study under Chile's influential painters, such as Balmes, Gracia Barrios, and Ciengfuegos. He has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in his native Chile and also internationally in Japan, New Zeland, Finland, various European countries, and the United States.
December 2010
Margaret Keelan: Ceramic Sculptures
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Gallery Bergelli is pleased to present "Ceramic Sculptures" - an exhibition of new works by Bay Area artist Margaret Keelan. This will be Margaret Keelan's first solo show at Gallery Bergelli.
For the past few years Margaret Keelan's sculptures have been glazed, stained, fired, then glazed, stained and fired again to give the surfaces the look of disintegrating paint over weathered wood. This softening and reduction of form so that its essential nature is revealed is a metaphor she uses for a life being lived, an exploration of the process of growing up and growing older.
The figures also recall the "Santos" figures of Mexico and Central America and incorporate a reproduced 19th or early 20th century doll head, resulting in a combination of an ageless sensibility with contemporary concerns.
Linda Gastrom, Professor of Art, states, "Your work is amazing on many levels. It is technical perfection and the surface is spot on. The subject conveys a sweet sentimentality twisted into melancholy that touches my emotional core and helps me remember the complexities of childhood and life".
Margaret Keelan: Ceramic Sculptures
View Margaret Keelan's artwork
Gallery Bergelli is pleased to present "Ceramic Sculptures" - an exhibition of new works by Bay Area artist Margaret Keelan. This will be Margaret Keelan's first solo show at Gallery Bergelli.
For the past few years Margaret Keelan's sculptures have been glazed, stained, fired, then glazed, stained and fired again to give the surfaces the look of disintegrating paint over weathered wood. This softening and reduction of form so that its essential nature is revealed is a metaphor she uses for a life being lived, an exploration of the process of growing up and growing older.
The figures also recall the "Santos" figures of Mexico and Central America and incorporate a reproduced 19th or early 20th century doll head, resulting in a combination of an ageless sensibility with contemporary concerns.
Linda Gastrom, Professor of Art, states, "Your work is amazing on many levels. It is technical perfection and the surface is spot on. The subject conveys a sweet sentimentality twisted into melancholy that touches my emotional core and helps me remember the complexities of childhood and life".
