Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary's College
Moraga, California
925-631-4379
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Point to Point: Landscape
Paintings by Willard Dixon and Peter Loftus
Large scale
landscape paintings by Willard Dixon and Peter Loftus will be on view at
the Hearst Art Gallery of Saint Mary's College from June 10 through August
13, 2000. The exhibition, "Point to Point," showcases the coastline
from Point Lobos to Point Reyes so vividly depicted by Dixon and Loftus.
Few living artists have captured the breathtaking geography and dazzling
beauty of the Central and Northern California coast with such virtuosity
as Dixon and Loftus, who have in common a remarkably adroit ability to create
vivid color and precise rendering to imbue the formal landscape with a compelling
contemporary aesthetic.
Steven Jenkins, Art Week Contributing
Editor, says of Dixon in the February 1995 issue, that "it is precisely
his sincere investment in tile tradition of realist landscape painting,
with its attention to verisimilitude and its acknowledgement of our continually
shifting relationship to nature, that infuses the work with singular power."
Paintings by the artist, who lives in Marin County, are in the permanent
collections of the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum and the
Metropolitan Museum, N.Y. Dixon was included in the de Young Museum's monumental
1995 exhibition, "Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape in the Bay Area."
(left: Willard Dixon, Bolinas Beach, 1994, oil on canvas, 40 x 60
inches, Courtesy of Hackett-Freeman Gallery, San Francisco)
Art critic Dorothy Burkhardt calls Loftus
"a subtle and elusive artist, a painterly realist indebted to Impressionism,
attuned to abstraction, convincingly in command of his medium." The
Santa Cruz resident, who received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College
of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, has work
in the permanent collection of the San Jose Museum of Art and major national
corporate collections, including Bank of America, Bechtel, Hewlett Packard
and American Telegraph and Telephone, N.Y. (left: Peter Loftus, Carmel
Vallery, Spring Green, 1997, oil on canvas, 43 x 66 inches, Courtesy
of Hackett-Freeman Gallery, San Francisco)
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Steven Jenkins, Art Week Contributing
Editor, says of Dixon in the February 1995 issue, that "it is precisely
his sincere investment in tile tradition of realist landscape painting,
with its attention to verisimilitude and its acknowledgement of our continually
shifting relationship to nature, that infuses the work with singular power."
Paintings by the artist, who lives in Marin County, are in the permanent
collections of the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum and the
Metropolitan Museum, N.Y. Dixon was included in the de Young Museum's monumental
1995 exhibition, "Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape in the Bay Area."
(left: Willard Dixon, Bolinas Beach, 1994, oil on canvas, 40 x 60
inches, Courtesy of Hackett-Freeman Gallery, San Francisco)