June 28, 2011 at 9:57am
“Airplane”: Oil on canvas by Peter Sheesley
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You may know Peter Sheesley from the painting demonstrations he did at Tacoma Art Museum in connection with the Norman Rockwell exhibition.
I have a confession to make: I was not impressed with what I read about Sheesley, nor with what I saw on his website. I thought of it as realism and nothing more than a show of painting virtuosity. But when I saw Sheesley's show, Science and Industry, at Fulcrum Gallery, I realized there was much more to him. I also realized that Sheesley's work-especially dark and moody pieces such as these-do not reproduce well, on paper or online. What you see in print here is a pale reproduction of what you can see in the gallery.
Sheesley's paintings in this show are taken from candid photographs snapped in Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry. The key word is "candid."
To read Alec Clayton's full review click here.
[Fulcrum Gallery, noon - 6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and by appointment, through July 13, 1308 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma, 253.250.0520]
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