December 6 - January 13, 2025
From Foltz Fine Art:
“Foltz Fine Art is proud to present a solo exhibition of works by William Anzalone, opening December 4, 2024, and on display through January 13, 2025. This exhibition, titled Legacy is more an ode to the loving partnership Anzalone shared with his late wife than a reflection on the legacy of the artist himself, even as he approaches his 90th year of life.
Anzalone speaks openly about the lasting impact his late wife Louise continues to have on his life. Louise, often the subject of his figurative paintings, passed away in 2012, and her presence is keenly felt not only in conversation with the artist, but also in the enduring images of her Anzalone has painted over his lifetime.
Legacy will feature new, large-scale, landscape paintings on canvas accompanied by a selection of works on paper. In these paintings, Anzalone often organizes his compositions by loosely alluding to architectural elements as viewed from his Round Top home, such as a wooden structure from his porch. These structures, painted with one of his favorite black pigments (Anzalone readily expresses his love of the color black) serve to ground the painting, calling to mind the grids of Piet Mondrian but with the bulk of Robert Motherwell. From these black structures, Anzalone can then riff with paint, and that is exactly what he does. Energetic bursts of mark making explode with color and light creating lush, foliage-likepassages. The resulting image is a lush, light filled landscape of the artist’s own invention.
Anzalone’s preoccupation with light is the other major dominating force of these paintings. Below the structures of black, Anzalone starts with a layer of a luminous warm pigment, often an intense cadmium red that shifts with time as Anzalone further develops the painting. Anzalone’s sensitive use of black calls to mind the painters in art history revered for their use of black, such as Henri Matisse and Édouard Manet. Like Matisse, Anzalone uses black to create light, but like Mondrian, uses black as an organizing force.
“Light is everything, and nothing else counts.”- William Anzalone.
Please join us for the opening reception of William Anzalone: Legacy, on Friday, December 6th, 2024 from 5-7 PM.
Concurrently on view will be an exhibition featuring new paintings and collages by Leila McConnell, as well as exclusive selection of ceramic sculptures by Linnis Blanton. For more information, please visit FoltzGallery.com. “
Reception: December 6, 2024 | 5–7 pm
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Houston, 77098 TX
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