Omni Contemporary Art Gallery continues its exhibition season on
Saturday, June 6, 2015. This
latest exhibition will feature the works of two artists:
Anthony
Barboza was born 1944 in
New Bedford, Massachusetts, with roots originating from Cape Verde, Barboza’s
wide-ranging traditional and innovative works have been exhibited in public and
private galleries, museums and educational institutions worldwide. He is well
known for his photographs of jazz musicians during the 1970's - 80's. He
says,“When I do a portrait, I’m doing a photograph of how that person feels to
me; how I feel about the person, not how they look. I find that in order for
the portraits to work, we have to make a mental connection as well as an
emotional one.”
Barboza’s work
has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Business Week, TV
Guide, National Geographic, Town and Country, Vanity Fair,
People, Esquire, Elle, Vogue, McCalls, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour,
Ebony, Black Enterprise, and the New York Times Sunday
Magazine, among dozens of others.
Eric Alugas was raised in New Orleans,
Louisiana. He studied painting at
the University of New Orleans, and was awarded a scholarship to l’Ecole
Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts, in Montpellier and Paris, France. He
remained in Paris for many years, exhibiting there and throughout Europe,
before returning to the United States.
Alugas works
with ideas from myths and folklore, arts and philosophy and the concrete
elements of painting: the canvas, gesso, paint, the brushstroke, and splashes
of paint. Each painting, or series
of paintings, is an essay, or meditation, which explores both its subject
matter and the very nature of the painting materials. Each calls for, shatters,
pushes and pulls against the other, like strands woven to form a tapestry of
meaning. The result is a painting, a concept to be read.
Eric Alugas:
Anthony Barboza:
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