Addington Gallery Exhibition Schedule

June 6 through July 15, 2008 Opening reception: Friday, June 6, 2008, 5-8pm Robin Denevan: New Encaustic Paintings Encaustic Artist Robin Denevan employs layers of beeswax, oil paint, and natural resins to create visions of exotic locations from Asia and Latin America. The paintings glow with an inner light, and transend catagories of "abstraction" and "realism". Encountering a Robin Denevan painting is a multi-sensory experience. This artist finds his motivation in his memories of trips to various exotic locations. Recent paintings find their origins in journeys down the Amazon, or China’s Yangtze River. But these paintings are not about mere recollection. They are about sensory recall. You don’t just look at a Denevan…you touch it, smell it, nearly taste it. The layers of beeswax, resin, and paint in these works engage our senses, and in doing so, they drop us, not into the location depicted, but into the artist’s own vivid memories of that place. July 18 through August 30, 2008 Opening reception: Friday, June 18, 2008, 5-8pm Thomas Monaghan: the Lake Series: New Paintings Thomas Monaghan takes us to the water's edge, and asks us to just be quiet and see what he sees. If we take the time to do so, we are not only rewarded, but transported -- to a lake, a stream, or some body of water we once spent time on, or wish we had. Monaghan is a true believer in the evocative power of paint to engage our memory, and when we spend time with his paintings, we believe, too. In the end, these are not just paintings of water and trees. They are paintings of light. The water and trees are just there to reveal that light to us. The Opening Reception for each exhibition is held on the first night of the exhibit between 5 and 8 p.m.