American Summer

American SummerJuly - September 2015

Featuring

Betsy Eby, Chris Gwaltney, Terrell James and Tom Lieber

C A D O G A NC O N T E M P O R A R Y

87 Old Brompton RoadLondon SW7 3LD

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7581 5451www.cadogancontemporary.com

Betsy EbyEby fuses the line between the musical and the visual composition as her work is both lyrical and visceral. The layers and gestures of her paintings evoke in viewers a rhythm that for Eby, is found in the music from her childhood and the natural world that surrounds her two studios.

Working in both Maine and Georgia, these two distinct places heavily influence Eby’s work - the rich blues reminiscent of Maine’s seafront and the depth of the black recalling the Georgian night sky.

Utilizing the ancient tradition of encaustic, Eby’s works resonate with the experience of observing natural phe-nomenons, giving her subject matter, composition, and colour, a luminous sheen. Eby’s delicate, and organic compositions become a synthesis of sound and image.

“The paintings hover between material and immaterial...To me, that strange intersection between the material and immaterial reminds me of all that is fleeting and fragile—the very thing with which poets and philosophers have always wrestled.”

EDUCATION1990 University of Oregon. B.A. Art History

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2015 New Paintings, Octavia Gallery, LA2013-15 Painting With Fire, LA/ME/GA2014 Southern Spirituals, Winston Wachter Fine Art2013 Chromatic Fantasies, Winston Wachter Fine Art Night Music, Winston Wachter Fine Art, NY2012 Ayres and Fantasies, David Klein Gallery, MI2011 Arrangements, Winston Wachter Fine Art, WA2010 Scales and Measures, Winston Wächter Fine Art2009 Abundance, Winston Wächter Fine Art, WA2008 New Paintings, Jean Efron Fine Art, DC2008 Divine Unrest, Winston Wächter Fine Art, NY2006 New Paintings, David Floria Gallery, CO 2007 As Above So Below, Winston Wächter Fine Art2005 Beyond the Tangle, Winston Wächter Fine Art, WA2004 New Paintings, Ameringer Yohe Gallery, FL 2003 New Distillations, Winston Wächter, (NY/WA)2002 New Works, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, CA 2000 New Works, Cervini Haas Gallery, AZ 2001 Elemental Divide Series, Marcia Wood Gallery, GA Nocturnal Volume, Anne Reed Gallery, ID1999 Give Alms Here, Ballard Fetherston Gallery, WA1998 Remembering Ceremony, Helios Gallery, OR

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2015 180 Degrees, The Curator Gallery, NY2014 Valley Painters, Columbus Museum, GA2013 Painterly Gestures, Illges Gallery, GA Tonalism, Sullivan Goss Gallery, CA2012 Petit Tableaux, Winston Wachter Fine Art, WA2011 Flora, David Klein Gallery, MI2010 Mystical Shores, Somerville Manning Gallery, DE2009 Lasting Legacies: The First 75 Years, Jordan Schnitz2008 Eby Bartlett, David Floria Gallery, CO2007 New Art Northwest, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art2006 Spirited Expressions, Gerald Peters Gallery Sliding Scale, Winston Wächter Fine Art, NY2004 The Seductive Surface, Turner Carroll Gallery

New York Contemporary in Greenwich, CT2003 Abstraction, Winston Wächter Fine Art, WA1997 Fresco, Academia Caerita. Rome, Italy

SELECTED COLLECTIONSGeorgia Museum of Art, Athens, GAColumbus Museum, Columbus, GAJordan Schnitzer Museum, Eugene, ORTacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WAUlrich Museum of Art Wichita, KSUnited States Embassy, Dubai, UAE, Permanent CollectionBoeing Corporate Headquarters, Chicago, ILTrump Tower, Atlantic City, NJSeattle University School of Law, Seattle, WAStanford University, Palo Alto, CANordstrom Inc., National CollectionAmerican Cancer Society, National CollectionWhittier Trust Company, Seattle, WAProvidence Hospital, Portland, ORBeverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CASaks Fifth Avenue, Phoenix, AZRitz Carlton, Rancho Mirage, CACielo, New York, NYWestin New York, Times Square, NY & Bellevue, WABellevue Club, Bellevue, WAHollywood Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, CATurnberry Ocean Colony, Sunny Isles, FLTSYS, Columbus, GA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS2015 Escudero, Nicki. “Southern Spirituals.” American Art Collector2014 “Painting with Fire: A Visit with Betsy Eby.” The Paris Review Arts: Betsy Eby’s Fire Works.” Garden & Gun Magazine2012 Scott, Ron. “Betsy Eby & Bo Bartlett @ David Klein Gallery.”2010 McAvoy, Suzette, “East Meets West”, Maine Home and Design Cover Image. New York Magazine. 18 Oct. 2010 2008 Yabroff, Jennie. “Betsy Eby”, Elle Décor, Dec. 2008:622007 Eby, Betsy. “Our Correspondents (Miami): Art Basel Miami2006 “Mr. Cipriani Takes his Name to Wall Street,” The New York Times

Left: Pacificaencaustic on canvas on panel

55” x 70”

Puget Soundencaustic on canvas on panel

48” x 66”

Tupeloencaustic on canvas on panel

35” x 45”

Babylon’s Fallingencaustic on canvas on panel70” x 55”

Chris Gwaltney

For Gwaltney, the figure is expressed as a gesture, a presence that is simply articulated with line and stroke.

His work is seen as poetic - the bright colours of the canvas emulate the Southern California sun and the viewer engages in the pieces artistic development through the lines and brushstrokes amidst the painted figures.

As he builds and sketches on the canvas, his process is one of building and demolishing, taking away what is unnecessary and crystallizing the visual language. Through the process of painting, he sets up situations that seek resolution in the work. In the end, the work becomes “a testament to time well spent.”

“The painting is a problem to be solved. It’s a puzzle, an equation

that’s looking for a solution.”

EDUCATION California State University, Fullerton, M.F.A., 1986 California State University, Fullerton, B.A., 1984

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2012-13 Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA2011 Tria Gallery, Chelsea, NY Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT2010 Peter Blake Gallery, CA, “Shadow and Absence”2009 Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT1997-2015 Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA1996-2015 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Renaissance Cafe, Laguna Beach, CA1995 More New Work, Peter Blake Gallery, CA Contemporary Figure, Robert Green Gallery, CA1994 New Work, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA1993 Recent Paintings, Five Feet Restaurant, CA New Paintings, Renaissance Cafe, CA1992 Essential Visions, Bistango Gallery, Irvine, California1991 Source Material, New Work, Diane Nelson Gallery Recent Paintings, Renaissance Cafe, CA1990 Twelve Recent Paintings, Diane Nelson Gallery, CA1989 Figure Eight. Diane Nelson Gallery, CA1988 S.I.T.E. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA More Questions, Fewer Answers, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA Gallery of Art, Rancho Santa Fe, CA1987 Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA1986 Diane Sassone Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2013 Five, Julie Nester Gallery, UT2005-12 Museum of Art and History, CA Figurative Paintings, Seager/Gray Gallery, Peter Blake/ LA Louvre CA2003 Summer Show, Robert Green Gallery, CA1998 Painters, Peter Blake Gallery, CA1996 Expressive Figure, 3 Figures, Peter Blake Gallery, CA1995 Recent Figure Paintings, Peter Blake Gallery, CA

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONSMaria SharapovaDr. & Mrs. Steven Weiss, CAMr. & Mrs. Snyder, CAMr. & Mrs. Thomas Neilson, CAMr. Byron Nease, NYDr. Bradford Cornell, CAMr. & Mrs. Whitney Gantz, CAMrs. Joan Rehnborg, CAMr. & Mrs. Ed Halvavjian, CAMr. & Mrs. Leif Hansen, CAMr. & Mrs. Bob McKnight, CAMr.& Mrs. Greg Brakovich, CAMr. & Mrs. Don Beal, CAMrs. Barbara Reiff, NYMr. Brian Conway, MAMr. Jim Williams, CAMr. & Mrs. Clark Cornell, CAMr. Richard Legoza, CAMr. & Mrs. Warren Fix, CAMr. & Mrs. Peter Ellesmere-Jones, CAMr. & Mrs Tom Linden, CAMs. Susan Trager, CAMr. & Mrs. Steve Friedmann, CA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONSRauxa Direct, Irvine, CAIrvine Company, Irvine, CAFinecon, Los Angeles, CAForms Engineering Company, La Palma, CAMcElroy Management, Newport Beach, CA Engle and Murphy Design, Long Beach, CAQuiksilver, Huntington Beach, CAWallace Computers, Chicago, IlAdobe Systems, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITION REVIEWS, ARTICLES2001 Chris Gwaltney at Robert Green Fine Arts, Sandy Thompson, Artweek, Volume 32 1993 The Art of Living, Kathy Bryant, Los Angeles Times, Design, July Cover

Right:The Dressoil on canvas80” x 60”

Left: Pulse Timeoil on canvas57” x 65”

Right:Mr Chow

oil on canvas36” x 36”

Left: You can only see from here

oil on canvas60” x 42”

Terrell JamesPaintings by James feature large brushstrokes with an instinctual and unique sense of colour that inhabits the space in which it is placed.

The content of her work emerges from the canvas through the colours and forms that are developed throughout the piece and her artistic process. The presence of spontaneity throughout her work is evident and the absence of a formulaic method makes her paintings unique.

James’ lifelong connection with nature informs her work, and the richness in colour, the ability to represent nature’s ever-changing glow and nameless, yet recognizable shapes allow viewers participation in her art.

“It’s just what I do, I draw this line between making and obliterating and restoring, sometimes literally, and I jump back and forth across it. I don’t seem to want the whole thing, I’m interested in fragments, clues.”

EDUCATION 1972-73 School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. 1973 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. 1973-77BA Fine Arts, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee 1978-79 School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2013 Maritime Forest, Houston, TX 2012 Troupe: New Paintings, Froelick Gallery, OR2011 Four Paintings, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX Citizen, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX 2008 Devin Borden Hiram Butler, Preoccupations, TX1997 Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX 1991 C.G. Jung Center, The Lure of Things That are Seen & Heard1989 Graham Gallery, Archaic Figures, Houston, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Skydive Collective, Prologue 2012, TX Froelick Gallery, Large Inventory Show, Portland, OR 2011 Synthetic Supports: Plastic is the New Paper, MFAH2012. The Museum of Fine Arts, TX2010 Jason McCoy Gallery, I AM NATURE, New York, NY 2009 Jason McCoy Gallery, Abendlich, New York, NY 2007 Museo de la Nacion, Amistad, Lima, Peru 2006 Museum of Shanghai, Houston Contemporary, China Sin Sin Fine Art, Three, US, Hong Kong, China2005 Houston Museum of Contemporary Craft and Heritage Gallery2003 Recent Acquisitions, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX 2002 New Works from the Collection, Portland Museum of Art, OR

SELECTED MUSEUM AND FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS Albee Foundation, NY The Barrett Collection, Dallas, Gifted to Dallas Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Cameron Museum of Art, Wilmington, N.C. Casa Lamm/Televisa Cultural Foundation and Museum, Mexico, D.F. Christ Church Cathedral, Houston Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Fundacion Vergel, Cuernavaca and New York Menil Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Museum of the University of the South, Sewanee, TN Norman T. Reynolds, Houston Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR Rice University Print Collection, Houston Portland Art Museum, ORSpencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA The Watermill Collection, Water Mill, N.Y. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS American Airlines, Dallas Bering Realty Consulting, Houston Cisco Systems, Houston El Paso Energy, Houston Enron Corporation, Houston Exxon Chemical, Darien, Connecticut and Houston Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas Frito Lay, Plano, TX Galaxy Macao Resort Hotel, China Hilton Americas, Houston Houston Lighting and Power Collection, Houston Iberia Bank, Houston Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Dallas and White Plains, NY Sands Hotel, Macao, China Southern Crow Music, Inc., Topanga, CA Southwestern Bell, San Antonio, TX and St. Louis, MI Technical Risks, Inc., Houston Texaco, Inc., Houston Texas State Bank, McAllen , TX Touche Ross and Company, Houston Vitol, Houston Willamett Industries, Paper Group, Portland, OR W.S. Bellows Construction Corporation, Houston Galaxy Hotel, Macao, ChinaThe Ritz-Carlton, Dallas and White Plains, N.Y Hilton Americas, Houston Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Creative Artist Program Award

Hidden Historiesoil on canvas

40” x 60”

The Bend in the Caveoil on canvas

40” x 60”

Regimentoil on canvas

48” x 48”

Threeoil and acrylic on canvas66” x 66”

Tom Lieber

Lieber’s work consists of overlapping brushstrokes unravelling in spontaneous bursts of seemingly source-less energy.

Influenced by the Hawaiian landscape in which he lives, the strong lines of his work remind viewers of a horizon against a sea, and the tangles of colour are arranged in such a way that the permanent rest and constant movement of the natural world come through, imitating the leaves and flowers surrounding his home.

The spaces of his paintings are filled with visually soft and layered colours, and his paint application is gestural and atmospheric, creating unique and diversified paintings.

“My work is centred on human energy..... experiencing, feeling, receiving, expressing.”

EDUCATION 1974 M.F.A Univeristy of Illinois, IL1971 B.F.A. University of Illinois, IL

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2014 J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2010-2014)2013 JF Chen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2009 Galerie103, Kauai, HI2007 N.E. Galerie, Darmstadt, Germany Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2005 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2003-05)2000 N. E. Galerie, Darmstadt, Germany1999 Samuelis Daumgarte Galerie, Bielefled, Germany S. E. Galerie, Darmstadt, Germany Flanders Contemporary, Minneapolis, MN1998 Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY (1983-1998)1996 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (1984-1996)1995 Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Cables, FL (1990-1995) Horwitch Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM1993 Galerie Edeling, Copenhagen, Denmark (1990-1993)1989 Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA Persons-Lindell Gallery, Helsinki, Finland1986 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY 1983 Kirk DeGooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (1981-1983)1982 Grayson Gallery, Chicago, IL 1980 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL (1976-1980) William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2013 E V O L V E, galerie 103, Kauai, HI 2012 Biennial of Hawaii Artists, Academy of Fine Arts, HI2005 Abstraction: The Poetic Visual Image, Bolinas Museum, CA2002 Modern Abstractions from the Permanent Collection, CA Vermont Studio Center Press Collection, VT San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA2000 On Island: A Century of Continuity & Changes, ME1995 Arizona Collects, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ1993 Monotypes from the Permanent Collection, Tate Gallery1992 Directors Choice: Old Friends & New, Newport Art Museum

1988 1980s: A New Generation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY1987: Emerging Art, 1978-86: Selections from the Exxon Series, Solo mon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY Allusion, Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Garner Tullis Workshops: Monotypes, Pace Editions, NY1983 New Perspectives in American Art: 1983 Exxon National Exhi bition, Solomon R. Gugegnheim Museum of Art, New York, NY

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NYMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYSan Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CAMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CATate Gallery, London, EnglandBowdoin College Museum, Brunswick, MECleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OHSanta Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CAStanford University Museum of Art, Palo Alto, CAMount Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley, MA The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CAPortland Museum of Art, Portland, MEHigh Museum of Art, Atlanta, GANewport Museum of Art, Newport, RISanta Fe Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NMTucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZRingling Museum, Sarasota, FLCedar Sinai Collection, Los Angeles, CAPalm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

SELECTED PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONSEric Clapton, London, EnglandMartin Z. Margulis, Florida, USAMichael S. Smith, California, USABank of America, North Carolina, USACitcorp, New York, USATaplin, Florida, USA

SELECTED PRESS 2010 Tom Lieber-abstractionist’s art looks alive, San Francisco Chronicle2009 Tom Lieber at Craig Kull Gallery, Chistopher Knight, LA Times2008 Paintings by Tom Lieber, Folly, Folly Mag.com

Red Dot Spadeoil on canvas72” x 48”

Midnight Lavenderoil on canvas60” x 48”

Jade Dueloil on canvas

60” x 48”

Glenoil on canvas

37” x 88”

American SummerJuly - September 2015

Featuring

Betsy Eby, Chris Gwaltney, Terrell James and Tom Lieber

To see more of the paintings in the exhibition go to www.cadogancontemporary.com

C A D O G A NC O N T E M P O R A R Y

87 Old Brompton RoadLondon SW7 3LD

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7581 5451www.cadogancontemporary.com