The Creative Spark

NOVEMBER 20th  - DECEMBER 3

The Creative Spark opens at Meyer Gallery on November 20th, bringing together twenty-four artists who treat art history as raw material rather than a rulebook. Curators Natalie Featherston and Anthony Waichulis built the show around a simple conviction: technical mastery and tradition are the foundation of originality, not a limit on it. Every artist here has studied the old methods closely enough to know what to keep and what to break. The result is work that carries centuries of craft forward into subjects and sensibilities entirely of this moment. This is not a nostalgia show. It is proof that the past keeps generating new art, as long as someone is willing to wrestle with it.

CURRENT CATALOG

Francis Livingston has been painting the western landscape for more than four decades, and this new body of work reflects that experience. Livingston paints from memory, returning to a scene until the essential shapes and colors remain. He leaves room for the viewer to fill in the rest.

That approach carries through the exhibition. One painting follows a string of horses down a sagebrush hillside, low mountains in the distance. Another shows a cottonwood in full autumn color, red and yellow against a blue sky, with two horses grazing beneath it. A third places a rider on horseback in a stand of winter aspens, the snow reflecting the surrounding color. Each has been worked and reworked from memory until it holds up as a painting.

The work will be on view through September 3  

Artist Reception to meet Francis 

Friday, August 21, from 4 - 6 pm. 

UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION

Francis Livingston: Into The Quiet

Meyer Gallery has represented Livingston for many years. This exhibition continues that relationship and reflects how consistently his paintings have held their footing, remaining grounded in a specific region while remaining open to the larger questions that serious painting tends to raise.

The title Into the Quiet is accurate to the experience of standing in front of this work. The Southwest Livingston paints is still without being empty, and familiar without being settled.

An opening reception will be held Friday, August 21, from 4 to 6 pm, with the artist present. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Into The Quiet is on veiw August 21 to September 3. 

Artist Reception to meet Francis on Friday August 21, from 4 - 6 pm.