Robert Lange's realism leads off a new exhibit
The Post and Courier - Charleston, S.C.
Author: DOTTIE ASHLEY
Date: Dec 9, 2004
Oversized leather couches and polished hardwood floors create the backdrop for The Robert Lange Studios Fine Art Gallery's first exhibition titled "Ordinary Extraordinary." The new gallery opened this week at 151 East Bay St.
Featuring realistic and figurative works depicting various angles of the Lowcountry, along with more impressionistic and experimental paintings, such as larger-than-life Marilyn Monroe portraits and French country interiors, the exhibit is ongoing through January.
"This is a gallery filled by Lowcountry painters who have New York backgrounds," says Robert Lange, the gallery's owner and one of the five featured artists in the current exhibition.
Four other artists also have their work at the gallery. They include Alan Hall, Lange's mentor, who offers a contemporary approach to traditional realism. Also included are the haunting photographs made by Wade Lawrence that are said to appeal to "ghost chasers." In contrast to the lush Lowcountry scenes painted by Tiffany Maser are the realistic portraits by John Duckworth.
"Each artist's work is starkly individualistic in its presentation," Wolf says. "But all of the artists that Robert has chosen have had formal art training in college."
Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week.
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