Summer 2012 Gallery Show

Starting Saturday, June 2 through July 28, 2012, Norwood Flynn Gallery will be hosting the Summer 2012 Gallery Artists Show. All artists represented by the gallery will be on view, with different artists featured each week.

At right is "No more pencils, no more books..." 60" x 48", acrylic, graphite, and oil bar, by Diane Walker-Gladney. 

I am fascinated with the idea that although we are inundated with multitudes of experiences, it is only a select few that remain with visceral integrity. An event experienced by two people may be insignificant to one yet may become a lifelong memory to another. Diane's work examines snippets of memory, attending to each no matter how momentous or inconsequential. The title of each piece gives a verbal connection to the memory while hidden longitude and latitude numbers document the physical location.

Diane Walker-Gladney is a Flower Mound, Texas-based artist whose work has been featured in New American Paintings. She has been twice named a finalist for the Hunting Art Prize. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections including the Longview Museum. 

Shari Hornish wins prestigious award Gallery artist Shari Hornish was awarded first prize winner in the "Unique by Nature" show sponsored by the McKinney Performing Arts Center and Arts and Music Guild.

Sunny Jacquet featured in "It's a Matter of Taste"

Sunny Jacquet, represented in Dallas by Norwood Flynn Gallery, will open in "It's a Mater of Taste" a new art series by J. Taylor and Sunny Jacquet in Los Angeles, CA - June 14 - 15, 2012.

 Contemporary artist J. Taylor and Trompe l'oeil artist Sunny Jacquet present their collaborative series entitled "It's a Matter of Taste" with a public reception June 14, 2012 from 6-9pm, located at 1835 South Main Street, (downtown) Los Angeles, CA 90015. "It's a Matter of Taste" consists of over twenty five new works that use everyday people and common objects in various styles to display the intensity and energy of real life experiences while reflecting on the power of imagination. 

Sallie McIlheran featured in China Sallie McIlheran, our international artist, who grew up in Ft. Worth and now resides in Freising, Germany, was in Guiyang, China in April of this year as part of the official delegation of the Ft. Worth Sister Cities Organization. Sallie represented Ft. Worth, her hometown, as an artist. During the visit, she presented the Chinese delegation with an oil painting of her creation.

Sallie McIlheran in Austria Sallie McIlheran was honored to have several of her works on paper to be among those of 13 artists, chosen from a field of 40, at Base-Level Gallery in Vienna for their Anniversary Show, March 15-April 28 of this year.

Transfiguration: Cabbages and Steel by Pamela Burnley-Schol "Transfiguration: Cabbages and Steel" by gallery artist Pamela Burnley-Schol has been selected as one of 140 contemporary pieces to be included in a GOLD exhibition for the Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum in Vienna in March of this year. This major exhibition about the concept and use of gold in art history has been guest curated by art historian Thomas Zaunschirm. The shows wants to contradict the premise that the avant-garde as well as the Renaissance banned the use of gold. "Der Kuss," by Gustav Klimt, will open the exhibit. We congratulate Pamela on being included in this prestigious show!

Painting as a Metaphor, Artist's Talk by Brent Kollock

We are pleased to host an Artist's Talk by Brent Kollock entitled "Painting as a Metaphor." Brent will speak about the comparison of the literary metaphor and the visual metaphor of painting. No one could be more adept in speaking about this topic as Brent. He has been "painting and writing his whole life, since he could pick up a pen. On view will be a few of his paintings as well as drawings.

Painting as a Metaphor will open with a reception from 6:00 - 8:30 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2012. Brent Kollock will also host an Artist's Talk at 7pm on February 4. 

Horndeski: The First Thirty Years "Horndeski: The First Thirty Years," opens on Saturday, February 11, 2012 with an Artist's Reception from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at Norwood Flynn Gallery. The show continues through Saturday, March 3, 2012.

Gregory Horndeski exhibiting at 516 Arts in Albuquerque Gregory Horndeski was one of 73 artists out of 279 applicants chosen for the New Mexico 2012 exhibition to be held at 516 Arts in Albuquerque. The show opens in Albuquerque on Saturday, February 4th, a week before he opens in Dallas at Norwood Flynn Gallery in Gregory Horndeski: The First 30 Years on February 11.

Updates from Kathy Lovas

Gallery artist Kathy Lovas has been in the news lately. Her work titled "Lightness, Quickness, Exactitutde" just took first place and a $500 award in the Plano Art Association's "125 Show 2011" currently on view at the Collin College Art Gallery in Plano.

Kathy's work will be featured in a solo exhibition in Greenville, South Carolina. "Ten Degrees of Separation" by Kathy Lovas will be on display from May 25 through July 10, 2011.

In February 2013, Kathy will be showing her current work in a two-person exhibition titled "Red Work/Yellow Work" by Kathy Lovas and Susan Sponsler. The show will include "Red Work: The Search for Allen Gray" that premiered at Norwood Flynn last July. 

Christopher Bingham opening in Art with a View

Norwood Flynn is proud to announce that gallery artist Christopher Bingham will be opening in Art with a View at BarBelmont. There will be an artist's reception on Wednesday, September 7 from 6-9 and the show continues through October 19, 2011. Art with a View at BarBelmont is at the Belmont Hotel, 901 Fort Worth Avenue, Dallas, Texas. For additional information, visit the Belmont Hotel.

Christopher, a finalist for the Hunting Art Prize in 2011, obtained his BFA in Drawing and Painting from UT Arlington and has been painting and showing since in the Dallas area. Besides the Hunting Prize, he was selected for the Juried exhibition, DArt-Slam in 2009, and has shown at Norwood Flynn Gallery since that same year. Chris continues to use his "nostalgic realism", showing a past that many will never see in person, only in his work. As he says in his artist statement: There is an inherent beauty in the minds ability to retain and recall information and experiences. It can hold on to the most miniscule details forever, but forget something you saw just minutes before. Someone once asked me how I would describe my work, and not fitting in to any traditional category I tagged it "nostalgic realism." My work plays on the beauty of memory, and its ability to take the viewer back in time and conjure up that nostalgia. These signs not only represent a dying art form, but a sign of times forgotten. Viewers receive a glimpse of the glory days, in this series that captures the essence of the seedy models and smoke filled rooms, that once laid fame to these signs.

Kevin Renner in Mind, Body & Spirit

Norwood Flynn Gallery is pleased to introduce Highland Park Native, Kevin Renner, to the Dallas Art Community in his first show, Mind, Body & Spirit: Sculpture and Paintings, opening on September 10 with an Artist's Reception from 6-8pm. The show continues through October 1.

Kevin obtained his BA at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. After spending 15 years teaching art and coaching football, powerlifting and track in Texas at the high school and college level, Kevin returns to the art world, devoting himself, as he did in his teaching career, totally to his sculpting and painting. 

Poets and Cattle: Ray-Mel Cornelius

Poets and Cattle:Ray-Mel Cornelius opens during the DADA Gallery Walk with an Artist's Reception from 6-8pm. The show continues through October 15, 2011.

 "Those cattle smaller than a Bee, That herd upon the eye..."

So begins the poem by Emily Dickinson that inspired this series of paintings. Cattle are symbols of the pastoral American mythology we all carry in our collective subconscious, regardless of whether or not we have first hand experience with them. In painting terms, the forms of cattle provide an opportunity to explore mass and shape, as well as color, texture and composition, their rectangular geometry creating contrast to the organic landscape serving as the base.

 Ray-Mel Cornelius, originally from Northeast Texas, lives in Oak Cliff. He has shown at Norwood Flynn Gallery since its inception. His work has also been exhibited in New York, Scottsdale, AZ, Taos, NM, Austin and San Antonio. His paintings are included in private collections throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. 

Julie McNair — Earthly Patterns: Sculpture Norwood Flynn Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Earthly Patterns: Sculpture featuring works by Julie McNair. The show opens with an artist's reception from 6-8pm on October 22, 2011 and continues through November 19, 2011.

Gallery Artists Around Town

Several of Norwood Flynn's artists are featured around the metroplex this fall.

Charlotte Seifert's paintings are featured at Highgate House. This antiques showroom, owned by Dudley and Aimee Simms, has opened at 1230 Dragon Street. Inside, besides their fabulous furniture and fixtures, you'll find some of Charlotte Seifert's paintings, courtesy of Norwood Flynn Gallery. Click here for directions. 

Kevin Renner's paintings are showing in the offices and headquarters for Dallas HD Films on the second floor above "The Shack" (part of Stanley Korshack) at the Crescent. Click here for directions. 

Julie McNair's show "Earthly Patterns: Sculpture" will be closing on November 19. We will be hosting an Artist's Talk and reception from 6-8pm on November 19th. Julie will share remarks at 7pm.

Dallas Cityscape Artist, David Leonard, will open in Art with a View, at BarBelmont, Belmont Hotel on November 30 from 6-9pm. The show continues through January 11, 2012. Click here for directions.

Norwood Flynn Gallery to host Dallas Challenge Auction Party

On Thursday, December 1, Norwood Flynn Gallery will host the "Dallas Challenge Auction Party, a fundraiser for Dallas Challenge, a non-profit that has provided prevention, intervention, education and outpatient treatment services to over 147,000 youth of North Texas since 1984.  During the event, paintings from Norwood Flynn Gallery artists , Pamela Burnley-Schol, Ray-Mel Cornelius, Gregory Horndeski, Sherry Hornish, and Adam Palmer, along with other local artists, will be auctioned, with the proceeds going to Dallas Challenge.  Images from the paintings featured already adorn cards that are available for purchase, that evening, and now, on this Dallas Challenge link:  dallaschallenge.worksmartsuite.com

Visual Soup: Adventures in Screen Printing Norwood Flynn Gallery is excited to announce Visual Soup: Adventures in Screen Printing by Adam Palmer. The show will open with an Artist's Reception from 6:00-8:00pm on Saturday, April 23 and continue through May 14, 2011.

Earth and Ether: Paintings by Pamela Burnley-Schol Norwood Flynn Gallery presents Earth and Ether: Paintings by Pamela Burnley-Schol. The show will open with an artist's reception from 6:00 - 8:00 pm on Saturday, February 26, 2011 and continue through March 19, 2011.

One Hundred Horses: Melissa Auberty "One Hundred Horses: A Series of Drawings and Paintings" showcasing the work of Melissa Auberty will open on Saturday March 12, 2011 and continue through Saturday, April 2, 2011. There will be an artist's reception from 6:00 - 8:00 pm on Saturday, March 12.

Gallery Artists Elizabeth Holden, Gregory Horndeski and Ray-Mel Cornelius

Elizabeth Holden will show with three other artists in an exhibition at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center during the Fort Worth Art Dealers Gallery Night. Show opens with an Artists' Reception from 6-9pm on March 26, 2011. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.fwcac.org

Gregory Horndeski is showing in "New Mexorado: Artists Living and Working in the Albuquerque-Denver Corridor," March 5 - June 19 at the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico. Gregory Horndeski is also showing in "Horizon Line," a group show on exhibit from March 18 - June 3 at the Santa Fe Community Gallery, curated by the Santa Fe Arts Commission.

Ray-Mel Cornelius has a piece entitled "Eli" showing in "Hecho in Dallas." The show opens at the Latino Cultural Arts Center with a reception from 6:30-8:30pm on March 10 and continues through April 29, 2011.

Image displayed at right is "Erased Memory," an etching by Elizabeth Holden. Dimensions are 12 5/8" x 11 5/8". 

Road Trip: New Paintings by Charlotte Seifert Norwood Flynn Gallery is excited to announce the opening of Road Trip: New Paintings by Charlotte Seifert. The show will open with an artist's reception from 6:00 - 8:00 pm on Saturday, February 12 and continue through Saturday, March 5, 2011.

Playing with Paint: Gregory Horndeski "Playing with Paint: Gregory Horndeski," opens on Saturday, January 15, 2011 with an artist's reception from 6:00-8:30pm.  The artist will speak at 7pm,  Show continues through February 5, 2011. Pictured to the right is "Hurray, It's Spring" by Greg Horndeski.

In-Depth Interview: Brent Kollock: A Texas Artist's Vision of the World

by Mabel Peck

As curator of the upcoming show of Dallas artist Brent Kollock’s new work, “The Language of Myth,” I am in the midst of trying to focus on his art, but the image of the artist himself keeps creeping into my thoughts.  Brent, who has shown at Norwood Flynn Gallery since Fall of ’09 is a fascinating writer and artist, and has been “painting and writing his whole life, since he could pick up a pen.” It is impossible, in fact, to look at his art, and not think about what he has written.  His art seems to speak of his thoughts, which are screaming to get out of his constricted drawings, and then spilling off the canvas, in their attempt to impart their meaning to the onlooker.  Many of these thoughts seem to reveal a tormented and harrowing soul, at once disturbing and fascinating.  Through his paintings and drawings, he has created his own vision of the world, and has remained true to it. Brent, originally from Houston, has been living and working in a tumble-down, magical house here in Dallas for the last 20 years after getting his BFA from SMU.  His artwork is in the collections of a devoted and loyal clientele from all over the world.  Besides Norwood Flynn Gallery, here in Dallas, dealers in the UK, France, and Spain represent him.   If one is lucky, he will share his writing with you, his reflections on the conflict between what we are doing versus the absurdity of life. A published book is on the horizon, so perhaps we all will all soon be able to share his words.  He is now working on putting the written word into the visual art.

The Language of Myth "The Language of Myth: New Work by Brent Kollock, and Watercolors by Special Guest Artist Michael Roque Collins" opens Saturday, October 30, 2010 with an Artists' Reception from 6-8pm. A special panel discussion by the artists, moderated by Jim Edwards, Gallery Director-Curator for Houston Baptist University's Art Gallery will be on Saturday, November 13 at 7PM. The show continues through November 20, 2010.

November 13, 2010, The Language of Myth: Panel Discussion

In conjunction with "The Language of Myth: New Work by Brent Kollock and Watercolors by Michael Roque Collins," there will be a panel discussion at Norwood Flynn Gallery, at 7:00pm, by the artists, moderated by Jim Edwards, Gallery Director-Curator for Houston Baptist University's Art Gallery.

About the Panelist:

Jim Edwards is Gallery Director-Curator for Houston Baptist University’s Art Gallery as well as Associate Professor in HBU’s Art Department.  Edwards graduated with BFA and MFA degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and is a Rockefeller Fellow in Museum Education and Community Studies from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  Considered an authority on modern and contemporary art in the American West, Edwards has curated and directed museums and galleries for more than 30 years.

About Michael Roque Collins

Excerpted from LewAllen Gallery Exhibition Notes for “From Ruins to Resurrection:  The Sacred Landscapes of Michael Roque Collins," October 30 - December 13, 2009:                       

Michael Roque Collins is recognized as producing some of the most profoundly affecting figurative expressionism seen in contemporary art. His pictorial techniques allude to the universal cycling between order and disorder, memory and history, enlightenment and darkness-root aspects of the human condition, the collective unconscious, and the natural world.  Reinvigorating our contemporary landscape as a site of spiritual allegory, the artist’s relentless examination of post-modern existential dilemmas has led critics to identify in Collin’s works a distinctly American spiritual resonance to the output of Ansellm Keifer and Gerhard Richter.  Finding beauty resident in the terrible, Collins regards his works as mythic conduits to our memories of the sublime and revelatory visual parables of hope for the future. 

A native of the Gulf Coast of Texas, Collins is a figurative symbolist whose images are drawn from a personal experience informed by lucid dreams containing icons from ancient cultures and mythic traditions.  Exhibited in numerous museums and other public institutions, his work is included in prominent public and private collections internationally.  While previously in Dallas, Michael was represented by Gerald Peters Gallery.  Norwood Flynn Gallery is excited to exhibit watercolors by Michael Roque Collins in its show, “The Legend of Myth,” along with work by gallery artist, Brent Kollock.

It Is What It Is "It Is What It Is, New Paintings by Sunny Jacquet" and Schwarz auf Weiss-Illustrations by Sallie McIlheran" opens Saturday, September 25, 2010 during the DADA Fall Gallery Walk. An Artists' Reception will be from 6-8:30 pm and the show continues through October 17, 2010.

Resonance: Watercolors by Billie Giese and Birdsong: New Oils by Shari Hornish Opening August 21, 2010 with an Artists' Reception from 6-8pm, Resonance: Watercolors by Billie Giese and Birdsong: New Oils by Shari Hornish will be showing through September 11, 2010.

Ray-Mel Cornelius' Claudius in 2010 Art in the Metroplex exhibition

David Leonard featured in August 2010 issue of Southwest Art magazine Please check out the 6-page article, "An Urban Jungle: Texas artist David Leonard paints the streets of New York and other cities" with 8 beautiful images. View the online article at http://www.southwestart.com/article/1939  Congratulations David!

Prospectives From The Cliff: Recent Work By Local Artists

A juried exhibition reflecting the energy, diversity and character of Oak Cliff's vibrant artistic community. This exhibition features 25 artworks by 17 artists who live or work in Oak Cliff, including our own Christopher Bingham. The opening is August 17 from 7-9pm at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center, 223 W. Jefferson Blvd., Dallas, Texas.

And, Christopher's painting "Alamo" was selected to be on the evite! 

Messages with a Code by Kathy Lovas

Norwood Flynn Gallery presents "Messages with a Code: Photography/Mixed Media Installations by Kathy Lovas" with an Open House during Gallery Hours, Noon - 5:00pm, on Saturday, July 10, 2010. Show continues through Saturday, July 31, 2010. Also showing: Etchings and watercolors by Kyle Hobratschk, an Exciting Talent new to the Dallas Art Scene.

Kathy Lovas' work is new to Norwood Flynn Gallery but she has had numerous shows throughout Texas. Kathy lives in Dallas and has taught photography in the College of Visual Arts and Design at UNT since 1992.

Kyle Hobratschk's work was featured on the 2010 calendar for the Dallas Farmers Market and has been shown in Taos, New Mexico. He is currently working on his BFA in painting at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU.

Ray-Mel Cornelius' Painting Installed at Children's Wing - Medical City Congratulations to Ray-Mel Cornelius!  His painting, shown above, was permanently installed on the first floor reception area of the New Children's Wing of Medical City Hospital, Dallas, and Ray-Mel & Becky were two of the important guests at the grand opening of the wing on June 17, 2010.  The title of the painting, in Ray-Mel's own words, is so named because "being outside is equivalent to being healthy."Outside" in the fresh air, running, playing, all those things we associate wih kids being outside, and what being treated in the hospital and getting better will get us back to."

Andrew DeCaen's Time's Mantle Chosen For Visual Arts Exhibition

Congratulations to gallery artist Andrew DeCaen who was one of a select group of artists who had work, Time's Mantle, accepted at the Visual Arts Society of Texas 5th Annual 125-Mile Visual Arts Exhibition.

The exhibition opens July 9 with a public reception from 6:30-8:30 in the West Gallery at Texas Women's University in Denton. For more information, visit www.vastarts.org 

Chris Bingham at Vino100

Chris Bingham, one of our gallery artists, will be shown at Vino100 through June 23. His work will take you back to nostalgic Dallas when bright neon and smokey bars were all the rage.

A few words from the artist follow:

"Searching for a muse, I instead found myself basking in the glow of an obnoxiously bright liquor store sign in Dallas, which led me to the realization that these dinosaurs of the art world were close to extinction. The days of runway light neon signs to attract your attention are long but forgotten with the now graphic driven monstrosities of today. Viewers receive a glimpse of the glory days, in this series that captures the essence of the seedy motels and smoke fliled rooms, that once laid fame to these signs."

For more information, visit www.vino100dallas.com 

Exquisite Creatures 2

Strange but true wonders await you as 38 artists take center stage with their exquisite creatures from the deepest depths of the sea. Norwood Flynn Gallery will be hosting Exquisite Creatures 2: The Mermaid & Octopus from May 8 - 22, 2010. There will be an opening reception on May 8, 2010 from 6-8pm.

A portion of the show's profits will be donated to the Emergency Artists' Support League. Thanks to our generous sponsors and friends of the show:

• Norwood Flynn Gallery
• Del Norte Bakery
• Living Statues of Dallas
• Chris Howell Photo
• Banfi Wines of Tuscany
• Balloon Sculptures by Nick and Kelli
• Starbucks
• Kerri Arista
• Ann Spicer Designs
• Tori Pendergrass
• Pigment School of the Arts
• Vino 100
• Event Alert
• Two Sisters Catering

 

For more information, visit www.exquisitecreatures.org

Chris Bingham Showcased at 7th Annual Hecho en Dallas Juried Exhibition

Gallery artist Chris Bingham is showcasing work in the 7th Annual Juried Exhibition Hecho en Dallas from March 11 - April 24, 2010. The show is on display at the Latino Cultural Center, located at 2600 Live Oak, Dallas, Texas 75204. For more information, please call 214-671-0045 or visit their website at www.dallasculture.org/latinocc

Visual Arts Senior Students of Booker T. Washington High School

Norwood Flynn Gallery is hosting a show for the Visual Arts Senior Students of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. The Student Artists' Opening Reception will be April 10 from 6-8pm. Artwork will be on view from noon to 5pm during the DADA Gallery Walk on April 17 and during normal hours (noon to 5:30pm) on April 14-24.

Andrew DeCaen: Sonogram Drawings

Looking at a sonogram image can be like looking through a perforated screen. The image of a child may become perfectly clear in a moment, then lost in static in the next. In response to these images he began a series of prints and drawings that explore this concept of thinking about the unknown while looking at coded or veiled information. In all of these images there is an interest in the absurd, the unnoticed, the unfathomable, and an unconscious wisdom. The show will feature drawings, lithographs, small etchings on paper and, several large drawings done on windows for the duration of the show, then erased.

The show opens with an Artist's Reception from 6-8:30 on Saturday, March 6. Norwood Flynn Gallery will be hosting an Artist's Talk with Andrew DeCaen on Wednesday, March 31st at 7pm.

After 15 Months Imbedded with Troops in Afghanistan, Jared Moossy Speaks...

Join us for a special Artist's Talk with Jared Moossy on February 20 from 6pm - 8pm.

We look at people but see often only a country in the constant throes of war. We divide simplistically the country's people into those who visit war upon others and then those upon whom war is visited. However, the most common narrative is the one that is lived quietly and spun daily in the lives of ordinary Afghans. It is this narrative of quiet, personal industry, one that is shaping up to be the dominant narrative of Afghanistan where, up to now, we have thought of a people only as those irrevocably linked with conflict. These images, then illustrate for us all the ambiguity and tragedy of people finding their way in war.

Leaves of Grass by Jared Moossy

Norwood Flynn Gallery is proud to present Leaves of Grass, An Intimate Photographic Portrait of Afghanistan by Jared Moossy, opening February 6, 2010 and showing through February 27, 2010. There will be an Artist's Reception from 6:00 to 8:30 pm on Saturday, February 6, 2010.

Jared is a Texas-born documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York.  Work from this show premiered at FCB Gallery in New York in November 2009.

"When two elephants fight, it is only the grass that suffers." - African Proverb

This show is part of an intimate portrait of Afghanistan, a country looked at, but rarely seen.  Jared Moossy is an award-winning professional photographer whose works have appeared in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, Newsweek, The London Times, and Conde Nast Traveler.  We are pleased to be able to showcase Jared's work for Dallas viewers.

Artist's Talk with Brent Kollock

The 2009 Holiday Show will be closing with a special reception and Artist's Talk by Brent Kollock beginning at 7PM on January 23, 2010.

Brent, in his words... Most of what I make falls into the category of eccentricity, because I have never admitted a clear distinction between making images and living.  If in my work I have managed to disguise a participation in my circumstances, I still cannot deny the eccentricity in what I make, since I make images precisely because I am only half there, if at all, in a rational world.  I work by default and dislocation, and since I work out of an interstice, that place and time between what we know, I always try and invite others to discover one of their own, to see themselves inside the figures and circumstances of my pictures.

View more photos from the event on our Facebook page. 

Norwood Flynn's Christmas & Holiday Show Norwood Flynn Gallery is proud to announce their Christmas/Holiday show running from November 14, 2009 through January 9, 2010. The show will feature work by Lithographer Andrew DeCaen; Sunny Jacquet, Member of the D Magazine Dallas Nine; and drawings by Brent Kollock. Opening and artist's reception will be held on November 14, 2009.

The American Art Therapy Association Presents: The Art of Edith Kramer Opening Artists’ Reception, Thursday, November 19, 2009 from 6:00-8:00pm at Norwood Flynn Gallery. Exhibition Dates:  November 18-21, 2009, Gallery Hours-Noon-5:30pm, Wednesday-Saturday.

(Dallas) On the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the American Art Therapy Association, Norwood Flynn Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of the art of Edith Kramer, presented by the art committee of the Association. As art therapists converge to celebrate, this occasion is also marked by revisiting one of the founders of their field, Edith Kramer.

The show features some never seen before artwork to emphasize the importance and relevance of this pivotal model of art therapy, where the therapeutic movement encompasses both process and product.  This exhibition provides a welcome glimpse into Kramer’s essential relationship to her own artistic productions, thus providing insight into possible connections of the primary relationship regarding art for the future of art therapy.  All shows are free and open to the public.  The public may call 214-351-3318 or email gthompson@maimonidesmed.org for information.

Home Grown: Recent Paintings by Charlotte Seifert and Kyle Ragsdale Norwood Flynn Gallery is proud to present Home Grown: Recent Paintings by Charlotte Seifert and Kyle Ragsdale on display from October 17 - November 7, 2009. The artist's reception will be on Saturday, October 17 from 6:00 - 8:30 pm.

Emperors & Roosters Norwood Flynn presents Emperors & Roosters: New Paintings by Ray-Mel Cornelius and Hand-Painted Pysanky Eggs by Billie Giese, on display from September 12 through October 10, 2009. The artists' reception will be from 6:00 - 8:30 pm on Saturday, September 12, 2009. Also come see Norwood Flynn's introduction of Oak Cliff artist, Chris Bingham and his "Neon Dallas" Paintings.

David Leonard Chosen As Member of the New Dallas Nine

originally published in D Magazine, August 2009

Dallas has lately been abuzz with the arts. Yet this growth comes at a perilous time. Galleries are struggling to survive, and artists are fighting to be shown. To provide a public environment for area artists to exhibit their work, D Magazine, along with John Sughrue and f.i.g., produced a juried art show in May called D Art Slam. Of the 150 artists who exhibited, the jurors honored nine, designating them the New Dallas Nine.

The name recalls the 1930s and ’40s regional artists who believed that local art can speak universally. The original Dallas Nine—Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Everett Spruce, John Douglass, and Perry Nichols—shaped the Texas centennial exhibition and Dallas’ new art museum. Working on murals, printmaking, sculpture, painting, and drawings, they depicted Texas’ landscapes, labor, luminaries, and tribes. They followed their own style, nodding but not kowtowing to New York and Europe, exhibiting alongside each other and national and international artists. As World War II ended, the Nine disbanded and moved elsewhere. Their work can still be seen at the DMA and other museums.

The presence and work of the New Dallas Nine speak to their efforts to live as artists within Texas. As the original Dallas Nine upheld, Texas has its own muses and talents. Here, we honor D Art Slam’s winners as they shape a 21st-century conversation about Texas and its artists.

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Filament & Flow
Norwood Flynn Gallery is proud to showcase Filament: Introducing Houston Artist Elisabeth Smith and Flow: New Works by Billie Giese. Their work will be exhibited from May 9, 2009 through June 6, 2009 with an artists' reception from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on May 9, 2009.

Booker T. Washington High School Spring Juried Show
On April 18, 2009, Norwood Flynn Gallery hosted the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts Spring Juried Show from Noon until 8:00 p.m. with an artist reception from 6:00 — 8:00 p.m.

Norwood Flynn presents Works on Paper

Norwood Flynn Gallery's show Works on Paper, featuring gallery artists Melissa Auberty, Jack Barnett & Billie Giese, began on February 12 and ran through March 28, 2009.

Norwood Flynn presents Michael O'Keefe: Value & Myth

Norwood Flynn Gallery's show Value & Myth, Recent Sculpture & Drawing by Michael O'Keefe which began Saturday, October 4, has been extended through November 14. A reception for the artist was held on Saturday, October 4 and on October 10, Michael was present for "A Conversation with the Artist" during which he gave attendees an intimate presentation about his artistic process in making the exquisite pieces on display.

After studying at the New York Studio and the International School of Art in Italy, O'Keefe received an M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University. His international experience and sophistication in art history account for his contemporary take on the beautiful and the true. His sculptures and drawings have, O'Keefe says, "...a figurative presence while admitting the reality that they are merely a collection of pencil marks, of plaster chunks." These marks and chunks mysteriously merge into dynamic human forms that aspire and crumble simultaneously, mirroring the human experience with an original voice. O'Keefe's burgeoning career offers a long-term investment in local gold. His deeply rooted forms play with new questions, connecting us to our heritage of beauty with an intelligent articulation of our moment, here and now.Describing his new works Michael O'Keefe says, "In my recent work, the concept of myth is meant to be thought of in a broad way, defining myth as any narrative belonging to an individual or group and contributes to their ability to function and thrive. Many people feel successful in their efforts to disassemble, fracture, or topple myths that contrast with their own current narrative, and in doing so deny the fact that, at the same time they are disassembling the myth in their mind, it is functioning in very powerful ways for others. This contradiction is fundamental to my work: some of the works seem to stand with great stability while, from other viewpoints, they appear ready to fall over; some works hold together with a strong sense of being whole despite explicitly revealing the parts that make up that whole; some works evoke a sense of beauty despite gnarly, jagged surfaces; some pieces have a figurative presence while admitting the reality that they are merely a collection of pencil marks or plaster chunks. I am commenting on the general value and function of myth and also reflecting on historical narratives that I myself rely on as the foundation for the making of sculpture and drawings."

Norwood Flynn presents Street Level

Norwood Flynn Gallery's show Street Level, Dallas Cityscapes by Austin artist David Leonard and New Works by Ray-Mel Cornelius, began Saturday, November 22 and ran through Saturday, January 24, 2009. 

 

Norwood Flynn presents Charlotte Seifert: Open Secrets

September 6-26, 2008
also introducing Austin Artist, Billie Giese

As I processed my divorce, my paintings became a way of speaking pain and accepting loss. The initial theme of gardening came as a metaphor for my toil of grief.  Out of the Garden, literally the breakup of our family, echoes the disruption of life in the Garden of Eden. Where Are You? has two birds flying in a circle, one pursing the fleeing other, as was I in the spinning tango that included secrets.

The images of flowers, as in Taking the High Road, were painted as I began to think about gardening and sowing and reaping anew.

Norwood Flynn presents Melissa Auberty: Shelter

Melissa Auberty's newest works encapsulate her native land, recalling the animals and landscapes of her childhood in Texas. Earth and sky, plant and animal, all forms, pliant and alive. Echoes of earlier cultures, played against the wild shapes of creatures we know, resolving into form alone.
A graduate of Southern Methodist University, Auberty invokes the shapes and atmosphere of her youth, laden with fire.

Spring Gallery Walk 2008 at Norwood Flynn Gallery

Spring 2008 Gallery Walk is here, and Norwood Flynn welcomes you. Visit our newest  show of paintings by Melissa Auberty, as well as our gallery of works by local senior students from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts. Treat yourself to a nibble of cheese, a taste of wine, and a stroll through the cool and inviting grounds of Norwood Flynn Gallery.  Sculptor Michael O'Keefe's powerful works can be viewed on the back terrace, where you can meet friends, enjoy the lush greenery and have another sip of wine. Make Norwood Flynn the first stop on your personal Gallery Walk.

Opening Fall 2008

Norwood Flynn Gallery is pleased to present the paintings of David Leonard, coming Fall 2008.

Leonard's images of Gotham City evoke the mystery of crowded spaces, the cacophany of multitudinous voices, the solitude within. Join us for this exciting event, meet the artist, and absorb the rich imagery of Leonard's works, as revealed by the artist:

"The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to production and consumption. The essence of our way of life can be seen in our never-ending at-tempt to subdue our environment. It is not my inten-tion to either glorify or condemn this objective, but to invite contemplation and leave judgement up to the viewer. I'm always looking for places where the man-made environment inundates the natural. I paint this in a way where subtle abstraction dissociates elements from the environment, creating an oscillating view of the natural and the fabricated.
The paintings are meant to be ambiguous - they can be seen as an indictment of human waste and contemporary alienation, or, simultaneously, they can be understood as silent tributes to the fundamental tools of our society that we all too often ignore. One might ask why I paint these things rather than document them with photographs -- I believe painting, because of its deliberateness, serves purposes that photography can-not. My paintings take a long time to produce and in this way they parallel and underscore the deliberate-ness with which our machinery is built into the land-scape. Thay are a culmination rather than a moment-- a 'long look' at our technology and legacy."

Booker T. Washington High School Norwood Flynn Gallery announces its 2008 spring juried show featuring works by the visual arts senior students of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. The show will be a benefit for The Edith Baker Art Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually by the Dallas Art Dealers Association to a graduating senior from Booker T. Washington for the Performing and Visual Arts who plans to attend college and continue studies in the visual arts. Gallery proceeds will be split between the student artist and the scholarship fund.

About the High School
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts was created to provide a program of excellence in the arts which meets the needs of the students and the community. It is the school of choice for students with special talents and the desire and commitment to develop their potential. Intensive training in the performing or visual arts allows students to explore the demands of an artistic career. A rigorous academic program offers all courses required for the state's three graduation plans including a host of honors courses and Advanced Placement courses. Students are selected through audition, interview, portfolio or other demonstration of artistic aptitude, and the student population reflects the ethnic enrollment of the district at large. On the average, 150 graduating seniors boast $1.5 - $3.5 million dollars in college scholarships in both arts and academic majors. The Visual Arts Cluster, led by Dolores Cuello Tompkins, provides an intense education in the studio arts: drawing, design, painting, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography and jewelry. Special Advanced Placement art courses enhance the curriculum and prepare students for professional schools and future career options.

The Seniors for this year include Alexa Alarcon, Mhelwell Ario, Monica Barrera, Richard Keith Brown, Lauren "Pepper" Ellett, Kayla Escobeda Orlando Hernandez, Elizabeth Hudson, Rene Jimenez, Nitashia Johnson, Audrey Mabry, Daryl Meador, Socrates Narvaez, Alexander Ruiz, Judge Rucker, Dilan Walpola, Suzanna Beckett Weeks and Brady Wolchansky.

Congratulations to Pepper Ellett who was the winner of the 2008 DADA Edith Baker Art Scholarship.

New Works From Bonny Leibowitz

Norwood Flynn Gallery is proud to present Permanent States of Transition, exciting new works from talented Texas artist Bonny Leibowitz.

Her paintings utilize color and line to develop and affect form and their impact upon one another, building a truth, shaping a reality.
 
"I've been working with the figure in my art for many years now. Once confined by the body, our very essence has been released, and the forms we see now are "figure-like" and interact as relationships tend to do impacting one another becoming part of who we are. The changes taken on, shape us into new states of being compelling us to exist in a transitioning truth." 

Linear eruptions convey the contortions and physical consequence of interaction. Juxtaposition of form and color create surface tension and movement. The world these "figures" live in becomes increasingly abstract and increasingly real. We don't want to leave. The work draws us in and speaks to our very existence.

The show runs until December 28.  Opening reception,Friday, November 30, 6-9 pm

Opening Feb 16: New Works by Jack Barnett

Jack Barnett: Indefinite Allegories

Jack Barnett’s representational paintings are comprised of three fundamental components: the figure, landscape, and collage. They retain the formal roots of figurative and landscape painting, but diverge into disparate interpretations of subject matter within “the mind’s eye of relationships, between people and their environment, visual time and space.” Barnett studies the nude but is not bound to it. He records glimpses into the human figure and man-made elements, then by fragmenting and rearranging them, he presents pieces of a bigger puzzle: the relationship of he figure to the landscape and the landscape to humanity. By exploring the panoramic typography and compartmentalizing it, Barnett begs the question: Where does man begin and where does he end? According to Barnett, “realism cannot be a scale model recreation of a visual world but rather a tool of thought and observation, a way of exploring mortality, displaced associations, relationships, and the magic of humanity.” This human dilemma in all its possible interpretations is juxtaposed against the expanse of the Texas landscape, limitless in scope and grand in scale. He asks the “big questions” and manipulates the paint until he reaches a temporary resolution, never settling for absolutes in its application. After completing one canvas, the questions begin all over again. Barnett’s subtle indulgences of paint and its possibilities are palpable in every canvas. He finesses and manipulates the paint that is applied in a myriad of ways: by brush, palette knife, or found tool. He explores the versatility of the media that can be opaque, translucent, viscous, runny, heavy, thin, dense, and meager. Barnett’s paintings are a vehicle to illuminate ideas, create illusion, explore possibilities, record a human event, and stand as a testament to his own humanity.

Artist's statement:

"My paintings are about people, whether fully depicted, abstracted inrto the implied face of a machine, or the fragmented scrap of a photo. They are the mind's eye of relationships between people and their environment, visual time and space. Working with the nude, I take a layered approach. First and foremost it is a momument to the non-hero. No uniforms or medals, no pearls or fancy dress - just life. On another level it is about relationships. The relationship of artist to model, the model to the box of the canvas, and life to life. The formal elements of composition reinforce the birth-to-infinity relationship of humanity and boxes. The box of a room or the box of a coffin, how much space the figure element takes up, or where it is placed are all important tools for creating an emotional connection to the figure. For me, realism cannot be a scale model recreation of a visual world but rather a tool of thought and observation, a way of exploring mortality, displaced associations, relationships and the magic of humanity."

Interventions and Contraventions

Norwood Flynn Gallery presents sculpture, drawings and paintings of Michael O'Keefe and Nicholas Cairns. The show opens Friday, October 19. Opening reception with the artists is from 6 - 9pm. 

 

Norwood Flynn Opens: Broken Cameras and Elegant Debris

Sallie McIlheran: Bilderreise
Paintings and Works on Paper

Saturday, September 15th
Open House 2 - 9 pm
Artist Reception with Live Jazz 6 - 9 pm

also showing

Elliott Terral: Violence Over the Airwaves
Emerging Cam Clip Artist

show continues through
October 13th

Norwood Flynn presents cam clip artist Elliott Terral and painter Sallie McIlheran with works about beauty on the rebound. McIlheran paints emptied bags, discarded envelopes, and half-peeled fruit that hint at desperate moments, but her precision in detail, the glow of oil over tempera, and her brilliant interplay of colors elevate debris to the level of complex portraiture. Terral, on the other hand, enlists chance, strategically breaking cameras to cripple their expression. His camera clips exaggerate the character of light while suggesting the physical limits of human perception, the boundaries of beauty.

Summer Show Norwood Flynn Gallery presents the Summer Show, featuring works by artists Charlotte Seifert, Kyle Ragsdale and Jack Barnett. The Summer Show runs through August, 2007. Drop by the gallery and enjoy these vibrant new works by contemporary artists. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday noon - 5:30pm
And by appointment: 214-351-3318

Charlotte Seifert: Life Lines

Also Showing Ray Larrow and Kyle Ragsdale

Artist's Reception

Saturday, April 21, 2 - 8pm

Live Jazz duo, 6 - 8pm

Show runs through May 12

Norwood Flynn Gallery is currently unfurling a spectrum of S.M.U. M.F.A. alumnae. The works of Charlotte Seifert, Kyle Ragsdale, and Ray Larrow combine like layers of consciousness. Seifert anchors her large oils in memory, Ragsdale’s work teeters on the edge of indecipherable narratives, and Larrow burrows into the subconscious through an almost ritualistic physicality.

Seifert’s work sets the pace. “I am interested in painting as a way of remembering,” says Seifert. “As I paint, the images evolve and recall places that I know…” For the viewer, this amounts to standing at the brink of another’s memory, with its shifting hints of the vaguely familiar. Recontextualized branches, seedpods, and vistas coalesce with the tactile quality of Seifert’s paint, drawing the viewer into the nature of paint, memory, and experience. One can imagine Seifert’s mind in the frame of Walt Whitman when he asks why there are “trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?” Charlotte Seifert’s paintings channel more than a few of these “large and melodious thoughts.”

Kyle Ragsdale’s stylized figures hint at more civilized possibilities, tugging the viewer into various interpretations. These are conversational pieces initiating a game. Is that Ophelia on a prom date? Martini hour at Thornton Wilder’s? Perhaps Gerhard Richter has just dropped in on the Stepford wives. See if you can resist a litany of interpretations.

Just when you think you’ve gotten calibrated to the rhythm of Norwood Flynn, you’ll come upon the quiet voice of Ray Larrow. Larrow trudges through layers of attentive labor, “mental snow drifts,” he says, before he touches trowel to panel. He doesn’t exactly paint, as much as he builds, beginning with poetry. The quiet and intimate layering of his daily gestures are rawly applied and then covered, rawly applied and then covered, so that the covering and covering and covering reveals aspects of life that can never be directly asserted. Each piece, then, is a stream of consciousness restrained to a limited field. The effect is that of impregnation so that the paint and plaster bulge with a swollen history of gestures. In a word, Larrow’s work conceals the inaccessible in order to reveal its fecundity. After few minutes of silence before a Larrow painting, you will feel inexpressibly deep and local yourself—like you’ve held a mirror up to your more mysterious inner workings. At this point, the deep you will be in the right place at the right time.

Norwood Flynn Gallery Hosts Benefit

Norwood Flynn Gallery hosted a benefit show for the visual arts senior students of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Saturday, May 19 through Saturday, June 9
Open House on Saturday, May 19, from 6 to 8 p.m.

(Dallas) Norwood Flynn Gallery announces its 2007 spring juried show featuring works by the visual arts senior students of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. The show will be a benefit for The Edith Baker Art Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually by the Dallas Art Dealers Association to a graduating senior from Booker T. Washington for the Performing and Visual Arts who plans to attend college and continue studies in the visual arts. Gallery proceeds will be split between the student artist and the scholarship fund. Admission to the show is free and open to the public. For information on the show or the Gallery please call 214-351-3318 or visit www.norwoodflynngallery.com

About the High School
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts was created to provide a program of excellence in the arts which meets the needs of the students and the community. It is the school of choice for students with special talents and the desire and commitment to develop their potential. Intensive training in the performing or visual arts allows students to explore the demands of an artistic career. A rigorous academic program offers all courses required for the state's three graduation plans including a host of honors courses and Advanced Placement courses. Students are selected through audition, interview, portfolio or other demonstration of artistic aptitude, and the student population reflects the ethnic enrollment of the district at large. On the average, 150 graduating seniors boast $1.5 - $3.5 million dollars in college scholarships in both arts and academic majors.

The Visual Arts Cluster, led by Dolores Cuello Tompkins, provides an intense education in the studio arts: drawing, design, painting, printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography and jewelry. Special Advanced Placement art courses enhance the curriculum and prepare students for professional schools and future career options.

Admission to the show is free and open to the public.

'Smallscapes' and 'Classical Realism to Outsider Art'

Norwood Flynn Gallery opens Smallscapes and Classical Realism to Outsider Art: small works by regional artists
through January 2007

Smallscapes, works by Ray-Mel Cornelius
Friday, November 24 through January 2007

Classical Realism to Outsider Art: small works by regional artists
Saturday, November 25 through January 2007
Open House on Friday, December 1 from 6 to 8pm

Norwood Flynn Gallery will feature two shows during this coming Holiday season. The first is Smallscapes by Dallas artist Ray-Mel Cornelius opening on Friday, November 24 and running through January 2007. The second, Classical realism to outsider art: small works by regional artists, opens November 25 and also runs through January 2007. For information on the shows or the Gallery please call 214-351-3318 or visit www.norwoodflynngallery.com. Admission is free and open to the public.

Ray-Mel Cornelius grew up on a ranch in northeast Texas. He had daily experience with two influences which molded the subject and nature of his work. The first was found in the popular culture of comics, books and magazines that demonstrated the possibility of drawing as a way of life. The second was the daily experience of the landscape, a combination of forever horizon and a sky that changed its features minute by minute. Ray-Mel lives in the Elmwood section of Oak Cliff.

Classical Realism to Outsider Art: small works by regional artists will include works by several regional artists including Jack Barnett, Anne Fairchild, Jonathan Hardesty, John Kuehne, J. Koehler, Carol Nace, Gaylord Cull and Michael Tichansky.

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'Transformations' by Michael Mentler

Transformations by Michael Mentler opened Friday, October 20 through Saturday, November 11. Michael Mentler is internationally recognized for his approach to figure construction and artistic anatomy. He developed his skills at The Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, The American Academy of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis. He is the founder of The Society of Figurative Artists in Dallas where he has taught and maintained a studio for the past five years. Mr. Mentler's works are in many private collections including The Pulitzer Collection and The Mead Library.
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Pulsing Impossibilities

Pulsing Impossibilities featured sculpture and drawing by Michael O'Keefe from September 9 - October 8.

"No, these are not captured moments. This is not a stream of consciousness. This is a figure in which everything is happening at once. It is what the playwright Erik Ehn defined as metaphor: 'two things inhabiting the same space, trembling in impossibility.'" Dana Tanner, 2006

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Lake Como and Beyond

Lake Como and Beyond, Italian Landscapes by Steve Armes opened June 24, 2006. Paintings and plein air sketches by Mr Armes were the result of four painting trips to Italy.These trips included Lake Como, northern central Italy and Tuscany.

On July 29th clients and collectors attended a private evening with the artist during which Mr. Armes discussed his work and his techniques. His most recent major painting, In the Vineyards, was unveiled along with the various sketches and preliminary studies that demonstrate his procedures. Mr. Armes returns to Italy in the fall of 2006.

Summer Show 2006

June through August, 2006

Studio 3318 opened its Summer Show Saturday June 24 featuring Dallas artists Lisa Boyd, Teri Campbell, Jennifer Culbertson, Ray-Mel Cornelius, Anne Fairchild, Sam Gholson, Olivette Hubler, John Kuehne, Bonny Leibowitz, Michael Mentler, Carol Nace, Michael O'Keefe and Michael Tichansky.

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What Lies Beneath

May, 2006

What Lies Beneath featured works by artists Allison Gilles and Tina Pustizzi-Meschko. Allison Gilles showed her work on sails.

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Art for Community's Sake Hosts Workshops

 

Flesh

March, 2006

A one-person show by Dallas artist Bonny Leibowitz.

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Conversations with a Muse

 

February, 2006

Steve Armes, Denny Doran, Hutch, Dave Kramer, John Kuehne, Bonny Leibowitz, Ken Mickelsen, David Terry, Don Thacker, and Dorian Vallejo, each exhibited a personal interpretation of the same model, the muse. The muse herself, Liza, is legendary among figure drawers in Dallas. Her full name is Yelizaveta Aleksandra Alyabyeva.

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Works On Paper

Figure One

November, 2005

Norwood Flynn Gallery first opened its doors as Studio 3318 in November, 2005, with a juried show featuring works of the human figure by forty regional artists. Juried by Ellen Soderquist, the show attracted over four hundred art lovers and friends.

Awards included the best of show of $1,000 which was awarded by Suzanne Kelly Clark to Hadar Sobol for her powerful drawing, "Woman" and a $250 gift certificate generously given by Terri Thoman of Paper Arts to Laura Doolin for her charcoal on newsprint, "Seated Male Nude."

Catering was provided by friend of the gallery, Jeannie Terelli of legendary Terelli's Restaurant.