Path to the Lords Pavilion, 2016, pastel on board, 16 x 20 inches
I’m happy to current this electronic mail interview with the Elgin, Illinois-based painter Timothy King. I had needed to search out out extra about his life and work after seeing his work on-line and when he wrote about his research with Stanley Lewis for my interview with him a couple of years in the past. I used to be impressed by his management of the Midwest Paint Group, which has held a number of terrific exhibitions that always featured the work of modernistic mid-western painters who work from statement in a roundabout way. I’m particularly happy to share this interview as his 45-year retrospective on the Kishwaukee School Artwork Gallery in Malta, Illinois has simply been proven. I used to be grateful to obtain his present of the gorgeous print catalog for this present, the place instance after instance of his work reveals the depth of his emotional engagement together with his chosen motifs from nature and compliments the depth of his painterly response and compelling compositional buildings. King pays ahead the custom of recent perceptual portray within the spirit of his mentors, Wilbur Niewald and Stanley Lewis.
Excerpt from the Timothy King Retrospective catalog essay, A Lifetime of Visible Sensations, by Stanley Lewis
“I maintain trying round for different painters who’re hooked on establishing their easels in entrance of bushes, bushes, homes, sidewalks, clouds, and many others.–the city panorama. There are solely so many painters who’re on this. For one factor, it is extremely inconvenient—a number of stuff to hold and one thing that may go fallacious with the climate. Tim King has been plowing away at this for 40 years, persistently engaged on his visible ideas. Organising and portray in each place he’s residing and attempting to get by way of that day, this present covers all these locations and occasions.
The identical state of affairs existed for each out of doors painter who has finished this at any time. Corot, Cézanne, van Gogh, Wilbur Niewald, Rackstraw Downes, and Tim King. You look on the market, set as much as paint, and say, “that is not possible. There isn’t any manner I can paint this.” This retrospective reveals a lifetime of such out of doors portray.” – Stanley Lewis
Tyler Creek, Wing Park, 2018, oil on Canvas 42 x 54 inches
Bio from King’s web site timothy-king-studio.com/,
“King studied on the Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute with Lester Goldman, Wilbur Niewald and Stanley Lewis. King’s work has been exhibited in Chicago, domestically and nationally, notably in New York on the Bowery Gallery, in addition to on the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Artwork in St. Joseph, MO. He’s a founding member of the Midwest Paint Group. His work is within the assortment of the Sheldon Swope Museum of Artwork in Terra Haute, IN.” He’s a member of the Bowery Gallery in NYC, had proven work on the Kate Hendrickson Gallery, Chicago, IL. He taught at Kishwaukee School, 2014 – present), Professor of Artwork & Design see his CV for extra
Larry Groff: What led you to placed on this 45-year retrospective?
Timothy King: I wanted to look again, catalog my creative life, and take into account my achievements. I’m arising on ten years as an adjunct professor at Kishwaukee School. Different college had finished reveals there over time, so it was my flip. Initially, I needed to do a retrospective; sadly, the pandemic delayed the present till now. When the gallery reopened, the supervisor needed to alter the plan to do a trimmer, present works present. Sadly, final yr I underwent coronary heart bypass surgical procedure. After I totally recovered, feeling higher than ever, I made a decision this present needed to be a retrospective. I additionally thought of the Kish Artwork Gallery. It’s a singular house; the architect designed it as a gallery with ample sq. footage and an enormous open viewing house for artwork.
Kishwaukee Artwork Gallery Retrospective Set up
Kishwaukee Artwork Gallery Retrospective Set up
LG: Your retrospective catalog should have been fairly the endeavor. The pictures, coloration correction, and format should have been a lot work. Did you do that your self? Would you suggest utilizing Amazon print on demand?
Timothy King: I designed and printed my catalog with 195 pages and 175 artworks, of which I exhibited 134 items. I needed to re-photograph a lot of the artwork. My colleague Loretta Swanson wrote the introduction, and I labored with Stanley Lewis to get his essay. I included ten poems by my spouse, Elizabeth Stanley King, and Walter King, my brother, who wrote an essay. Getting all of it collectively for the catalog was an amazing job, however I’m additionally a 37-year veteran graphic designer.
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The catalog is obtainable on Amazon, from this hyperlink – Timothy King Retrospective
LG: What led you to wish to be a painter? I perceive your brother, Walter King, can also be a painter. Something attention-grabbing to say about your loved ones?
Timothy King: My older brother Walter and I had been artistically gifted. Mother was an artist, so we obtained a number of encouragement. Throughout my highschool years, Mother and Dad opened an arts and crafts retailer referred to as the King’s Glue Pot in Tulsa. Mother taught artwork lessons, and Dad made woodcraft merchandise. He did image framing, too, and taught me how. All of us helped run the shop. Walter and I had been every high highschool artists, however I began faculty first at Columbus School of Artwork & Design. Walter is 4 years older and didn’t pursue faculty, so I entered him within the CCAD new pupil portfolio contest after Christmas break. The primary he knew was in receiving his scholarship award. After I determined to review portray as a result of I at all times cherished it, my portray trainer beneficial I switch to Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute for its popularity as a portray faculty.
Walter studied Illustration at CCAD however was additionally a severe portray pupil. He studied with Nathanial Larrabee. After getting our BFAs, Walt went to Boston College, and I went to Tulsa College with none mentorships. I used to be nonetheless working from my KCAI accomplishments and rejected what the one TU portray professor provided. After 30 years, Walter retired Emeritus Professor of Illustration from CCAD. I’m an adjunct professor at a number of faculties and educate full-time. Changing into painters, by some means, was ordained for each of us. We’ve finished three two-person exhibitions in Columbus, Chicago, and Cordoba, Argentina.
King’s Home, Yard View, 2022, oil pastel on canvas, 20 x 20 inches
Walter King, Becca’s Yard, 2019, unique watercolor, 15 x 21 inches
LG: You went to Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute within the early 80s and studied with Wilbur Niewald and Stanley Lewis; what was that like for you?
Timothy King: I used to be at KCAI from 1976 to 1980. I studied drawing after which portray with Wilbur Niewald for one semester of portray and a pair in drawing. I appreciated his skill to get you to see the mannequin in that north mild studio. Wilbur was chair of KCAI portray for a very long time and constructed that division right into a implausible portray faculty. He introduced in youthful painters like Stanley Lewis and Lester Goldman. Altogether there have been seven portray college, and I studied with 5. I used to be with Stanley Lewis for 3 semesters and a pair further for drawing. I obtained to know Stanley greatest and shaped a long-lasting friendship with him. I saved involved with Wilbur and visited him a number of occasions earlier than he handed final yr. I studied at 4 faculties, and none had been as nice as these days at KCAI.
Feminine nude in Chair, 1977 graphite on paper 13.5 x 11 inches
Feminine Mannequin in Chair 2, 1979 graphite on paper 17 x 11 inches
LG: What did you be taught from Wilbur Niewald about portray the panorama and from life that continues to be crucial to your present observe?
Timothy King: Whereas I discovered about panorama portray from Wilbur’s concepts and by taking a look at his work, my panorama observe developed throughout grad faculty in Tulsa. I did one unfinished panorama with Wilbur, however my time was spent primarily contained in the studio, working from the mannequin and nonetheless life. From Wilbur’s teachings, panorama portray was no completely different than nonetheless life to me. Wilbur taught abstraction by way of his thought about perceptual construction. He taught me {that a} convex and concave expertise envelopes and weaves all through house and kind. I nonetheless see Wilbur lace his fingers collectively as he describes it. Wilbur additionally taught me tonal coloration. I bear in mind portray a stunning glowing nude with delicate, impartial warms and cools when Wilbur grabbed a brush, combined up a superb crimson, and plopped a stroke on the nude’s face. That splash keyed up the entire portray 5 occasions. So many individuals suppose being a colorist is all about vivid coloration, however Wilbur taught me a finer sensibility which I’ve tried to hold into my landscapes.
(Carried out in Niewald’s studio) Male Nude Seated, 1977, oil on canvas, 18 x 16 inches
(Carried out in Tulsa) Tulsa Arboretum – Autumn, 1983, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
LG: What was Stanley Lewis like as a trainer?
Timothy King: I used a number of concepts from Stanley, and he impressed me to write down about these concepts and examine drawing and portray analytically. I’m a theoretical thinker, so he inspired me to write down about portray. I’m a visible thinker, so the ordering of phrases presents me with nice problem. I did go on to write down my MA grasp’s thesis on binocular picture formation in drawing and portray. The paper is posted on reaserchgate.edu together with my MFA thesis. In his lessons, Stanley created completely different managed experiments for every pupil. Stanley had me engaged on his “Two-Desk” idea and had me make mockups from Dutch nonetheless lives. I might arrange two tables tipped oppositely, in ahead and backward tilt. The desk positioning is extra sophisticated than I’m explaining, however the level is that the portray captured the looks of objects on high of 1 desk, not two. In these setups, there was a reversing of the phantasm of issues positioned in house. The foreground and background objects within the compositions are juxtaposed in relationships. It was a play on the painter’s sense of kind dominated by instinct over expectation. I proceed to work on this concept in my panorama portray. Stanley and I’ve a shorthand language about concepts on portray. I’ve heard many extra of Stanley’s drawing schemes than I’ve ever understood. Typically, he’d discuss with the “Painter’s Type” as if there have been concepts ingrained within the custom of portray. I’ve at all times appreciated that Stanley taught to the person in his lessons and tried to assist every discover a distinctive information bracket to work off. I’m certain he got here up with educating angles I’ve by no means seen. He’s a exceptional trainer. I wrote about a few of Stanley’s teachings on your interview with Stanley Lewis. Right here is the hyperlink. MY STUDIES WITH STANLEY LEWIS, By Timothy King (scroll to finish).
Black Forged Iron pot and Ceramic Bowls on Two Tables, 1980, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Tabletop View of Lake Michigan, 2008, oil-pastel on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
LG: You later obtained a MA in 1985 after which an MFA in Portray in 2006 at Northern Illinois College. I’m curious to know why you earned each the MA and MFA. Was it so you could possibly educate in public faculties?
Timothy King: I went again for my MFA in 2003 to show faculty artwork. I obtained my portray MA in 1985 however had no assist at Tulsa College, so an MFA from a distinct faculty was extra interesting at the moment. Stanley referred me to Yale, and I interviewed as a finalist MFA candidate. However it was a no-go. Then, Stan despatched me to Parsons, the place Leland Bell and Paul Resika taught. Parsons awarded me their high MFA scholarship. However finally, New York was too costly. Not going to Parsons is a remorse. I had another probability at Northern Illinois College in 2003. I graduated in 2006 and went proper into educating. I’m a full Professor rank, part-time, at Kishwaukee School educating design. As well as, I educate drawing and design lessons at a number of Faculties as a full-time residing.
Self Portrait, 1984, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Lets Play Costume Up, 2006, pastel on paper, 25 x 19.75 inches
LG: Your earlier work reveals a love for painterly expression like that seen in Oskar Kokoschka’s work or the Bay Space Figurative painters similar to David Parks and Richard Diebenkorn. Later, your work emphasizes a extra tonal palette with mild and worth carving out the 2-D designs. In what methods do you’re feeling your work has advanced over time? What has been most vital along with your compositions, and what are your most vital influences?
Timothy King: I’ve at all times painted with expression and favored Kokoschka’s landscapes early on. I used to be lucky that I met with a former Kokoschka pupil giving a chat at Tulsa College. He concurred that Kokoschka thought himself a classist, not a German Expressionist. As for my Diebenkorn similarities, I discovered his flatness and ease had been approachable. I’m nonetheless not a David Park admirer, however Walter appreciated him, so I paid consideration. Walt studied with James Weeks and Nathan Oliveira at BU. I labored in sophomore portray at KCAI with Hal Parker, who studied underneath Weeks and Park on the San Francisco Artwork Institute. Walt and I’ve a good quantity of Bay Space faculty in our DNA. So, Walt and I shared a dialog about our respective academics that labored to our benefit. Here’s a hyperlink to Walter King’s website:
That Bay Space sense of portray obtained me early on. In highschool, I noticed my first Wayne Thiebaud portray of a girl in a bikini at Philbrook Artwork Museum. Many see the Balthus affect in that image of my spouse leaning on a gravity chair in her underwear, however the solidity of that Thiebaud portray influenced me simply as a lot. Helion, Leland Bell, Derain, and Balthus had been my most vital influences. After all, I copied from the previous masters as one ought to.
Changing into a Panorama painter, I appeared moreover at Matisse, Cézanne, Courbet, Corot, Constable, Golden Age Dutch landscapes, and Italian Baroque landscapes. I’ve at all times believed in these painters. I’ve labored with a Matisse early and Fauvist coloration, however largely I work in a strong chromatic tonal vary. Pure coloration fits me, however if you happen to look, pure is just not fairly in any respect easy. I like being free to maneuver backwards and forwards in coloration approaches. I’m attempting to know a classical building of kind and coloration. I feel I’ve been evolving since my research with Stanley. I’ve seen my improvement in three logical levels, with perceptual portray widening my visible expanse of house.
- Peripheral Imaginative and prescient work; the thought for a portray and drawing by way of a body with the left eye on the scene and the proper eye on the image.
- Binocular Imaginative and prescient work. Additionally, a frame-based thought, using each eyes triangulating on the topic within the body.
- Binocular-Peripheral-Fusion work. My present work combines the primary two experiences the place I’m concurrently contained in the body, rotating my head 180 levels. It’s a five-point spherical conception, however with out the everyday curvature different painters make the most of.
Elizabeth on Gravity Chair, 1985, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
Tyler Creek, Wing Park, 2012, pastel on board, 16 x 20 inch
LG: How a lot do you propose out a portray beforehand? Do you make research, or do you’re employed it out on-site?
Timothy King: I’ve numerous modes of working. I like planning a panorama, however I’ll reply spontaneously to a view of the place I find yourself. Typically these spontaneous conditions educate me to be open to new concepts. I work out concepts for plasticity in compositions. What angle do I wish to view the scene? How is the slope of surroundings shifting the house, and do I wish to reverse that slope in my portray to make higher sense of the types? Normally, I’m going with considered one of a number of reversal approaches. My work is at all times a sport of enjoying in opposition to visible expectations. I’m working extra on utilizing my on-site work as preliminary to studio work. I’ve discovered doing the studio landscapes that I would like to extend the data I seize when working on-site. The method has change into a suggestions loop between my studio portray, plain-air landscapes, and life research. As I become old, I wish to work extra on studio work, however it requires me to accentuate my observations within the subject.
Oak Road Seashore Lifeguard and Rescue Boat, 1994, oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches
Pleasure Trip Redemption: The Boy Who Didn’t Drown, 2006 – 2023, Oil on Canvas, 62 x 50 inches
LG: I usually ask painters why do you paint from statement; so I’ll ask you that too, what are your issues about this? What does statement give you that working from reminiscence, research, or invention can’t present?
Timothy King: I favor straight observable conditions and on-site work as a result of I’m concerned with my visible perceptual course of greater than invention from creativeness or fantasy. I don’t observe for look as a lot as to see and really feel the sensual abstractions. There’s a pure formation of the image that’s completely different when working from invented and reminiscence compositions. Working from life helps to take away me from exterior artwork kinds and their affect. Portray from life filters out the imitation of others. After all, I’m at all times taking a look at different painters, and I like seeing how they devise and use reminiscence of their work. However working that manner is much less profitable for me. But, I conceive objects like tree branches or an individual straight from my creativeness. I like inventing skies within the studio work. Typically these innovations keep within the completed piece. The improvements encourage additional life research wanted to do the studio compositions. Largely, I’m attempting to free my thoughts in nature, working straight.
Two Bushes Standing Aside, 2006, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
Randal Oaks Park #1, 2021, pastel on board, 16 x 20 inches
LG: Do you utilize a restricted palette? How vital is matching the colour you see in nature precisely proper?
Timothy King: I work backwards and forwards between a full palette and a restricted palette. Typically I’m lazy, and I begin with black and white. Then I’m going into brown and inexperienced making it a Grisaille examine, then including blue and yellow. I react to paint as I’m going. I’m not method pushed. The landscapes begin with tough approximations, however I at all times search a greater coloration or tonal house. I wish to keep away from obvious native coloration renditions. I favor atmospheric and oblique colours and search for sudden coloration contrasts. I take pleasure in how a coloration begins interacting and altering within the coloration house.
Haircut, 2022 oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches
Cornish Park, Algonquin Dam, 2019, pastel on board, 16 x 20 inches
LG: Once you paint outside, particularly with premier coup-type portray, what are some issues for evaluating the work in progress?
Timothy King: I’m concerned with construction and kind primarily. These are abstractions from visible expertise; the areas and shapes create interwoven rhythms. It’s the manner I educated myself to inscribe binocular and peripheral relationships. I at all times purpose to arrange a pictorial house with interlocking form reversals. I tune in by flipping actuality away from my preconceptions; after I hit that zone, I don’t acknowledge something besides the types and the abstraction. After I’m there, I’m feeling not evaluating. I’ve discovered to not decide progress as a result of portray is intoxicating. I’ve discovered that my rational college is distorted and never as realized as my moment-to-moment intuitional sensation turns into whereas working.
White Oak, Tyler Creek, 2017, Oil on Canvas 12 x 12 inches
Lebanon Road 3, 2017 Casein on Canvas, 12 x 12 inches
LG: How vital is being trustworthy to what you see by way of measurements, angles, and particulars versus what you suppose the portray wants by way of composition?
Timothy King: Measuring and sightseeing approaches are mechanical and educational to me. So, I take advantage of rectangular relationships as a substitute. It’s a Mondrian method, however I’ve a Soutine sense too. I’m drawing from the compressions and expansions of an anamorphic expertise. Angles are important to hook the house, particularly when skewed within the reverse of what you’d anticipate. Inserting the background right into a frontal airplane initially modifications the form and scale relationships. I’m at all times attempting to merge depth into the image airplane and reverse meanings between the back and front, high and backside. That’s what I take into account composition. I’m capturing my second in my visible relational system.
Lords Park, in Autumn, 2013, pastel on paper, 19.75 x 25.5 inches
Dwelling Road – Summer time #2, 2018, oil on canvas, 24 x 34 inches
LG: I particularly take pleasure in trying on the bushes in your work; they appear extra about capturing the lyrical motion by way of the image and the design than merely describing the bushes that occurred to be there, not in contrast to how Cézanne would use the bushes to construction his portray.
Timothy King: I really like portray tree canopies and didn’t understand most panorama painters keep away from that topic as a result of bushes are so sophisticated. I take into consideration how Cézanne and Courbet completed portray within the tree cover. They’re among the many greatest at it. Establishing the tree’s structure is important to visualise and memorizing dominant segments for vital progress. Trying backwards and forwards causes disorientation. I’ve discovered myself detailing within the fallacious part. I’m establishing the rhythms to create depth from my binocularity, and I take advantage of triangulation to discover a blue-sky breaking by way of the inexperienced. The abstraction of areas and shapes is musical to me. And as soon as a melody flows, I can extra simply get into the cover’s complexity.
Wing Park Bluff – Elgin, 2008, pastel on board, 16 x 20 inches
LG: Once you exit to color, what goes into your choice to make use of pastels, watercolors, or oils? Do you experiment with completely different methods, helps, media, and such?
Timothy King: I’m not too keen on watercolor. I’m not like Cézanne in any respect. He painted in oil and watercolor revolving across the white floor to arrange his mild. That’s one thing I’ve at all times admired. However I take advantage of white and black in watercolor to tint and shade, and the paper’s white be damned. After I’ve experimented with mediums for oil portray, I’m involved with drying occasions. I would like moist paint to mix and blend on the canvas, however I additionally want so as to add vivid colours over darkish with out muddying, so I like drying mediums. I’ve used acrylics that key my coloration up, and I see myself returning to them extra. I really like utilizing casein paint working small. They appear and feel like oils however have fast-drying qualities like acrylic. As shut as I get to watercolor is gauche, which handles like casein paints, and you’ll rewet and mix moist over dry. I’m engaged on canvas, however I did work on panels for a interval. I favor oil-primed wooden panels with a tan tone. In working with pastels, I’m utilizing chalk and oil pastels. I favor sq. arduous pastels just like the Prismacolor Nupastel model. I take advantage of a workable spray repair to kind a crust each 30-45 minutes. I take advantage of toned pastel-matt boards and toned pastel paper of assorted heat and funky grays. I don’t normally mix or smudge besides within the underlying layer. I need the colour from under to filter as much as the highest in little chromatic specks. I really like the serendipity of probability.
Dwelling Road in Summer time, 2019, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
Walton Island Park 2, 2020, pastel on board, 16 x 20 inches
LG: I perceive that Jean Hélion influenced and knowledgeable your work; his writings and work additionally influenced Stanley Lewis. You had Stanley portray and sculpting in an summary and been concerned in writing a brief ebook about Hélion, Twelve Ways of Looking at a Painting: An Homage to Jean Hélion and Le Grand Luxembourg.
Timothy King: Stanley confirmed me how Hélion drew utilizing a curvy rhythmical construction. Helion’s kind appears to distort house round and thru these figures of individuals; this isn’t the standard manner of drawing correct contoured outlines of issues. Helion has an a priori actuality used to assemble types, which hooked me to Hélion’s summary work. Lester Goldman first confirmed me Helion’s geometric abstracts with unusual, distorted shapes with no obvious geometric id. I discovered that Hélion developed bizarre quick curving shapes in little signets of summary construction. Should you look, you see them in his later work, realist nonetheless life, and determine work. Hélion labored off these conceptual constructing blocks from his summary interval to construct his artwork. I’m the other of how Helion labored. He labored from the easy to the complicated, and I’ve by no means found out how to do this. I’ve at all times needed to work from the complicated, to search out these unusual forming Hélion-like constructing blocks inside some essence of my notion. I educate a two-dimensional design project primarily based on Hélion’s little summary motifs. Hélion is a major and missed painter.
Jean Helion, Le Grand Luxembourg, 1954-57, Oil on canvas, 118 x156 inches, Southern Illinois College Edwardville
Timothy King, After Helion’s Le Grand Luxembourg, 2013, pastel on board 24 x 30 inches Assortment: Lovejoy Library Artwork Museum, College of Southern Illinois Edwardsville
LG: What’s the neighborhood of painters like the place you reside? Can you join with many different artists?
Timothy King: It’s lonely right here within the Midwest. A buddy described the Chicago artwork scene as all spiders. It’s a enjoyable thought. I take pleasure in seeing the Chicago artwork scene and love having conversations with my buddies about modern artwork. Just a few weeks in the past, I had an excellent dialog with my MFA nephew Daniel King on the Chicago Artwork Institute, whom I don’t usually see sufficient. I’ve painter buddies in Chicago, however we have to get collectively extra. I’ve the Midwest Paint Group buddies and new acquaintances within the Bowery Gallery. I’ve had common contact with Stanley Lewis and my brother Walter.
Lebanon Road 1, 2017, Casein on canvas, 12×12 inches
LG: You had been the Director of the Midwest Paint Group for a number of years with a number of reveals. What about your expertise with this that could be attention-grabbing?
Timothy King: I’m nonetheless the Director of the Midwest Paint Group. The group is at the moment in a post-pandemic slumber. I created the MPG web site round 2000. It was one of many first Web artwork teams again then, apart from the New York cooperatives just like the Bowery Gallery and Zeuxis. We obtained some further consideration after I posted a portfolio of Stanley Lewis’s artwork when he had no web presence, so I began him on-line with a retrospective from scans of his slides.
In 2004 I made a Chicago cooperative gallery connection and organized the primary MPG exhibition. Our membership advanced from a number of KCAI grads. Mike Neary and I are the 2 remaining six founding members. Of the 11 present members, solely three are KCAI graduates. The remainder are from a broader spectrum of colleges. All of us share an essence of what we discover thrilling about portray. We are actually extra geographically unfold out past the Midwest, however all share an important or long-term connection to the Midwest. The group has finished quite a few museum and college exhibitions, amongst different venues within the Midwest and East.
Right here is the hyperlink for our group. midwest-paint-group.us.
White Oak, Hornet Park, 2017, Casein on canvas, 12×12 inches
North Price Avenue #2, 2004, oil on panel, 16×24 inches
LG: Gabriel Laderman had been concerned along with your group for a time earlier than he handed in 2011. How did he change into concerned? What do you discover most attention-grabbing about him?
Timothy King: Gabriel Laderman looked for photos of Stanley Lewis work for a present he was planning and located the Midwest Paint Group web site. He began writing some members and befriended me. Gabriel wrote the catalog essay in that first MPG present. Gabriel referred to as us post-abstract figurative painters, and the present was then named Put up Summary Figuration: The Midwest Paint Group. Gabriel met up with Walter and me on the MET years in the past. He instantly started speaking about his favourite work, telling us his tales. I did my Invitational present on the Bowery Gallery in 2006. Gabriel obtained over to see it earlier than it closed and wrote me an extended letter with an in-depth assessment of his expertise. We lastly obtained Gabriel to agree to point out with the Midwest Paint Group what turned, Realism and its Discontents at Wright State College and Manchester College (2012). Sadly, Gabriel handed away earlier than the exhibition. We obtained three of Gabriel’s’ work and featured him as our particular visitor.