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GERRY BANNAN: PEACEABLE KINGDOM Thursday, May 9-Saturday, June 1, 2019 Ruth C. Horton Gallery

GERRY BANNAN: PEACEABLE KINGDOM Thursday, May 9-Saturday, June 1, 2019 Ruth C. Horton Gallery Until recently, Gerry Bannan’s virtuosic ballpoint pen on Mylar still life drawings focused on his re-imagination of the 16thand 17th-century vanitas still life tradition. This exhibition presents a new body of work in which Bannan ventures into new territory, watercolor on Yupo, a brilliant white Japanese watercolor paper.

In this new body of work, the artist, in addition to color, introduces birds, plants, and other small creatures in vivid, meticulously-rendered tableaux of forest and riverbank scenes. Rendered with a rich, almost sumptuous density of color and intricate detail, these works, in the artist’s words, “seek to engage the viewer with wonder and curiosity.” In contemplating Bannan’s works, viewers are invited into both a real and imagined—and often overlooked—portion of the natural world.

Pride of Cucamonga, 2019 (detail) Watercolor on Yupo paper 60 x 120 inches Image courtesy of the artist

Green Heron, 2016 Watercolor on Yupo paper 36 x 48 inches framed Image courtesy of the artist

Water’s Edge I, 2016 (detail); ballpoint pen on Mylar; 10 x 24 inches; image courtesy of the artist

JOIN US! OPENING RECEPTION AND ARTIST TALK: GERRY BANNAN Bannan will give a 20-minute artist talk at 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, May 9, 2019, 5-7 PM Grand Lobby Free; refreshments provided

ABOUT THE ARTIST Based in Roanoke, Gerry Bannan is a professor of fine arts at Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, Virginia.

He received a bachelor of fine arts in printmaking from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and a master of fine arts in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Bannan’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the state of Virginia, as well as in Atlanta and Philadelphia.

For more information, please visit gerrybannan.com

ON COVER: Sweet Hatcher Bittern Water, 2018 (detail) Watercolor on Yupo paper 18 x 24 inches Image courtesy of the artist

Pride of Cucamonga, 2019 (detail) Watercolor on Yupo paper 60 x 120 inches Image courtesy of the artist

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