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Larry Preston: Recent Paintings

William Baczek Fine Arts, in Northampton, Massachusetts is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Larry Preston. The exhibition will be on display from Wednesday, May 1 through Saturday, June 8, 2019. The public is invited to an opening reception with the artist on Saturday, May 4 from 5 to 7 pm.

Larry Preston has been exhibiting with William Baczek Fine Arts since the gallery opened in 1996 and has had numerous solo exhibitions at the gallery. This exhibition will include more than twenty recent still life oil paintings. “The term contemporary still life is almost an oxymoron, but Larry Preston’s work successfully breathes new life into the tradition,” says gallery owner William Baczek.

Larry Preston had a twenty-five year professional musical career before focusing on painting, what he calls his “first love”. He constantly challenges himself with reflective surfaces, subtle lighting, and subjects with textures as varied as lemon peels and aged lace. Preston’s work has been featured repeatedly in American Art Collector, which stated that he, “… rivals the Flemish Old Masters he studied as a youth.” But unlike most still life painters who use the Dutch artists as their inspiration, Larry Preston’s paintings are not ponderous or weighted by history. They are serious paintings that do not take themselves too seriously.

As Preston sees it, “I paint what I find beautiful. I do not paint to be relevant, for an audience or to make any statement other than to capture the beauty to be found in the objects I choose to paint …. I find that, in this modern world, there is too little observance of the beauty in our surroundings. I think that is the real importance in our lives.” That is why his paintings explore subjects as varied as eggs from his own chickens, amaryllis flowers, knobby wild apples, and stacks of jelly donuts. His paintings have a richness of color that is the result of many applications of thin colored glazes on smooth prepared wooden panels.

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Winter 2019 Exhibition

William Baczek Fine Arts, in Northampton, Massachusetts is pleased to announce the opening of the Winter 2019 Exhibition. The group exhibition highlights the work of nineteen gallery artists: Jana Brike, Travis Louie, El Gato Chimney, Eric Wert, Scott Prior, Susan Mikula, Michael Abrams, Jaq Chartier, Larry Preston, Jeff Gola, Brad Woodfin, Robert Sweeney, Mallory Lake, Rick Pas, Joshua Huyser, Chie Yoshii, Yin Yung Chun, Michael Boroneic, and Guy Laramée. The featured works span many mediums, from oil and egg tempera painting, to photography and carved books.

Selections from this exhibition and other works by gallery artists can be seen on the gallery’s web site at www.wbfinearts.com.  For more information about this or upcoming exhibits please call the gallery at 413-587-9880 or email at [email protected].  The gallery is located at 36 Main St. in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts and is open Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 – 5, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 – 7 and Sunday from 12 – 5.

Exhibition Dates: January 9 - February 28, 2019

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