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American Still Lifes - national museum exhibition

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American Still Lifes - national museum exhibition

The paintings of nationally recognized fine artist Daniel Mark Cassity, will be on exhibit for “AMERICAN STILL LIFES” at Shreveport, LA’s R.W. Norton Museum from March 4th through May 25th, 2014. The exhibition will contain sixty-six paintings by fourteen nationally recognized artists; including Cassity’s who only recently moved from Shreveport to Hot Springs, AR.
Cassity graduated from Louisiana Tech in 1988, and then spent twenty years in North Carolina after attending postgraduate studies at East Carolina University. He began concentrating on still lifes around 2006, and continues to receive ever-increasing national – and international – attention such as selection as a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine’s Annual Art Competitions in 2010, 2011, 2012, & 2013, including a Competition Spotlight feature in the July/August issue of 2011. Cassity has also been juried into the Oil Painters of America’s National Exhibition, Salon Show, and Eastern Regional of 2013, was selected as a finalist in the Art Renewal Center’s International Salon of 2012/2013, as well as being selected as a finalist in Southwest Art Magazine’s Artistic Excellence Competition of 2013. He is a member of the International Guild of Realism: a select group of around 350 members in 35 countries worldwide: participating in their 8th Annual Juried Exhibition of 2013. He has also been featured by Southwest Art Magazine as an “Artist to Watch” in their August 2013 issue, been promoted in American Art Collector’s October 2013 issue, and has a full feature article forthcoming in The Artist’s Magazine slated for September/October of 2014. Visit Cassity’s website: DanielMarkCassity.com for more information.
Now residing in Hot Springs, Cassity is very happy to have this opportunity to show at Shreveport’s Norton Museum, and is honored to participate in AMERICAN STILL LIFES. The public is encouraged to attend.

Dates: March 4th – May 25th.

AMERICAN STILL LIFES is a new traveling exhibition which features works by a range of artists recognized for their brilliant compositions and dazzling technique. Exhibiting artists include Daniel Mark Cassity, Loren DiBenedetto, Camille Engel, Berry Fritz, David Gray, Sharon Lloyd Hourigan, Jane Jones, Charles Gilbert Kapsner, Janet Laird-Lagassee, Laurin McCracken, Brian O\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Neill, Wes Siegrist, Rachelle Siegrist, and Soon Warren. The exhibition features several works by each artist to demonstrate the breadth, depth, and versatility of their individual output. While historians generally view the 17th century as \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"the golden age\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" of still life painting in Europe, today\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s American masters not only remain as enthusiastic as ever about the artistic possibilities of depicting inanimate objects for the sake of their qualities of form, color, texture, and composition, but also build on traditions of artists who worked in the Netherlandish Lowlands in new and interesting ways. Common place objects such as plants, fruit, vegetables, dishes, and bottles, and even occasionally the depiction of skulls, candles, and other allegorical subject matter in so-called \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"vanitas,\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" remain as popular as ever today, but often in new aesthetic contexts shaped by twentieth-century innovations and movements such as Cubism, Pop Art, and Photorealism. In what can only be described as an eclectic, layered ethos, many artists today remain rooted in tradition, while others see still life painting as a vehicle to explore new artistic possibilities or to convey political or social meaning. Today\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s still life artists still orchestrate innate objects and direct light to create visual interest, but often as not feature contemporary subject matter portrayed in a variety of palettes and contemporary styles. A relatively pure, even abstract, form of art, still life remains as popular a genre as ever. And the work contained in this exhibition embodies the diversity, range, and achievement in American still life painting today.
David J. Wagner


For more information about AMERICAN STILL LIFES contact:

Jerry Bloomer, Public Relations Director & Secretary of the Board
R.W. Norton Art Gallery
4747 Creswell Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71106
(318) 865-4201

David J. Wagner, Ph.D.
President, and Curator/Tour Director of American Still Lifes
(414) 221-6878
davidjwagnerllc@yahoo.com

Daniel Mark Cassity: Artist
(318) 268-2454
Website: DanielMarkCassity.com
Email: DanielMarkCassity@gmail.com

Location

R. W. Norton Museum

4747 Creswell Ave.

Shreveport, LA 71106

Dates

March 4th, 2014 (Tuesday)

August 31st, 2014 (Sunday)

Registration Information

Registration is NOT Required

Event Coordinator

David J Wagner

President, Curator, And Tour Director Of American Still Lifes

(414) 221 - 6878

davidjwagnerllc - at - yahoo.com