Richard Collier - Artist Symposia, September 6th (Sun) 3-5 PM His Exhibition at Shumei Gallery, August 31st - September 14th |
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Richard Collier’s artwork will be on display at the Shumei Gallery the first two weeks of September. Mr. Collier comes from a family of artists and has been painting since his late teens. Richard always considered himself a painter, whether he was working with paint, film, video, or theater. He states, “In a sense all the arts can be reduced to the fundamentals of painting poetry and music. Without these art forms culture and civilization would be lost. Once, while in Bolivia, I encountered a tribe who had been deprived of their music and dance by the colonial missionaries, they were now a diminished and dying people bereft of their art forms they are now no longer able to feed themselves in the jungle where they have always lived. Even spiritual communities would be lost without the arts, as a means of transmitting their message." Mr. Collier has exhibited at The Bar Harbor Gallery in Maine, Hillyard, Blue Creek, and Core Galleries in Denver, and recently at the Towa Gallery in Genza, Tokyo Japan. Richard works in both watercolor and sumi ink, which was introduced to him by his father and influenced by his many trips to Japan. Speaking of his work Collier said, "From a distance a mountain is a real object in perspective space, yet on its face up close you are confronted with abstraction." A gallery talk and reception with the artist will be held at the Shumei Gallery, the round room on the north side of the office, on September 6th from 3 to 5pm. Please join us. Refreshments will be provided. Call 256-5284 for further information.
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Shumei
International Institute |
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