Virginia artist Rob Browning exhibits at R.H. Ballard in May

R.H. Ballard will be showing “Almost Home,” an exhibition of new paintings by Virginia artist Rob Browning, from May 3 through May 25, 2008.

The public is invited to an opening reception for the artist on Saturday, May 3, from 4:30-7 pm at the gallery, 307 Main Street, in the Town of Washington. Refreshments will be served.

Painting by Rob Browning: “House on the Hill,” 2008, oil on canvas, 24” x 30”house-on-hill-300-x-2392.jpg

This is Rob Browning’s first showing in Rappahannock County and has been highly anticipated. It is a truly stunning and original exhibit not to be missed.

Browning received his formal art education at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and his artwork is included in many public and private collections. His work has also has been used commercially by clients such as General Electric, ITT, Disney Enterprises, and American Airlines. He has shown nationally in numerous galleries across the United States.

Local collectors have expressed that they are amazed at the precise detail, vivid palette and the contemporary feeling his paintings possess. His work is described as surreal, starkly beautiful, conveying strangeness and other-worldliness. One can see Browning’s influences of such American icons as Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.

These are high-contrast landscapes, often with an underlying tension of maturity and mystery. One is struck by his expertise in illustrating simple details of an everyday life with an unexpected tone or feeling.

Stephen Margulies, from the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia says, “In Browning’s work, each object in the commonplace world is uniquely powerful in its aloneness…(the artist) loves both fine art and illustration, fuses character and caricature, weirdness and beauty, satire and lovely truth, humor and eerie sobriety.”

R.H. Ballard is open daily, 10am-6pm. The show runs for three weeks only. To schedule a private appointment, please contact Robert Ballard at the gallery, 540-675-1411.

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Posted: April 26th, 2008 under Arts/Entertainment.
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