Fri 11/12 @ 10AM-7PM
Cleveland artist Laurence Channing is known for his realistic charcoal drawings of homely, rundown and ordinary cityscapes, the types of vistas you probably wouldn’t bother to snap a picture of with your phone. He depicts his scenes in such detail, you feel like you have seen these places.
His new show at the Bonfoey Gallery, Laurence Channing, Paintings and Pastels, features such Cleveland scenes, most of them in color pastels. He reminds us again that Cleveland is more than the dazzling sunsets, lake views and downtown skylines, often depicted in highly photoshopped photos.
“Though not completely new terrain for Channing, they are different from other color work he’s done in the past,” says the gallery’s press release. “These images are grittier and harder; the use of color adds a striking element to the work we know so well… As locals, we turn to the work of Laurence Channing to remind us of the bones of our city. Though not necessarily attractive in their existence, these places are as much a part of Cleveland as its famous landmarks and attractions.
Adds Channing,“It is the artist’s task to give meaning to images of that battered, inchoate and lovely world; through leaving out, keeping in and remaining alert to the suggestions offered by our work itself, as it struggles to exist.”
The opening reception takes place on Friday November 12 @ 10am-7pm. Reserve a time slot at opening-reception-laurence-channing-paintings-and-pastels.
For more information, go to bonfoey/13-laurence-channing-paintings-and-pastels/.