Gary Chapman - 'OIL ON GOLD'

BECA gallery is pleased to present ‘Gary Chapman – Oil on Gold’ from March 8 – 30, 2008. Chapman currently is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and to date has held over 40 solo exhibitions both in the United States and abroad and has participated in over 42 museum exhibitions. 12 of his paintings are held in the permanent collections of 10 museums throughout the southeastern United States. With his most recent series of works, Chapman will be exhibiting a solo show of large and medium scale mixed-media multiple panel paintings at BECA gallery located at 527 Saint Joseph Street, NOLA 70130.  The gallery will host an artist reception on Saturday March 8, 2008 from 6-10 pm. 

Chapman states “With good intentions, my subjects are passionately searching. They are engaged in the proverbial, if not cliché, pursuit of meaning, knowledge, experience, or truth. They are on the quest of ‘finding themselves,’ looking externally and through the eyes and experiences of others. The children in these paintings, are still pure in this search, determined and armed with a clear vision; naïve.  The adults however, begin their search for the elusive, already encumbered by all that they bring to the search; that which they know, have experienced and have come to believe. While still pure in their intentions, they have lost their innocence.”