Stunning Impressionism Painting by Charles Dwyer HUGE 66" x 60" Oil Painting with Exquisite Frame Start Price USD 22,000.00 Current Price USD 22,000.00 Time Left 4 days 1 hours 19 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, October 14, 2008 End Time Monday, January 12, 2009 Location Kalamazoo, MI See more about 'Stunning Impressionism Painting by Charles Dwyer' Description   Artwork:  Charles Dwyer - "Scientific Tailor"  Stunning oil on canvas.  66" X 60" original impressionist/figurative work.  Framed and ready to hang.  I will pay shipping and freight ship it to you.   For additional information, email: jdeliefde@fulcrumgroup.org     Artist Profile:  CHARLES DWYER Did the hands of Da Vinci touch the hand of this artist…   When an artist is truly talented, you look at the training and academic background, you look at their collector lists. You study their style to see who may have influenced them. When you study art, you start with drawing.  You cannot proceed with any area of art until you master the skill of drawing, and any master living or deceased could draw. Charles Dwyer has mastered drawing and painting the female figure. Known for doing mixed media works on paper and canvas, layered with symbols, designs and abstract diversions, his work has more depth than any modern figure artist. His signature style is classical and will hold the test of time. It hangs with major art collections in private, public and corporate in the United States, Munich, Germany, to Barcelona, Spain.   Fascinated by the complexities of both the human form and the human mind, Dwyer finds inspiration for his art in the simplicity of the face, and expands on that in his love for doing portraiture using mixed media to create images with both literal and figurative layers. Skilled in many areas of the creative process, drawing remains closest to his heart. “Drawing is the foundation of everything - It’s kind of primal.”  Much of his inspiration comes from photographs he takes of people, both anonymous and familial. He finds that photography is a critical part of his artistic process. Also, it was during his studies in college he “fell in love” with the print making process of etching and stone lithography. Dwyer can now move into something he has longed to do the 3-diminsional form of the female figure in sculpture giving the expanse of his work full circle and in perfect timing for the peaking of his artistic journey.   Dwyer Interview February 2005 Women are my subject; the eyes are the focal point. I want to create an intimacy where the portrait may remind them of themselves or they may get an immediate feeling they are allegorical. They are not someone specific.   Dwyer was highly inspired by German and Italian issues of Vogue that he found while on a trip to Europe in 1985,. He fell in love with the layout, the lighting, clothing, fabrics even the paper used to print the magazine affected him. “I am borrowing ambiguous images from these photos and put my drawings together that way. The images are icon like; larger than life I love the 30 x 40 size or larger. I feel my work can’t be copied. This is what creates a signature artist. I keep my work partly in traditional drawing, and then allow the work to become funky. I don’t want the work to be too serious. I feel most traditional work is ego driven and boring. I want to create a look that is inviting or provocative. I like the magical, and fantasy aspect. The young women show an element of innocence and are an angelic something we can hold on to. I love the beauty of women. Working in churches doing restoration for 20 years on angelic and cherub figures have influenced me greatly. But the modern angelic figure is also mischievous, venerable and innocent.”   Bio1961 Born West Bend, Wisconsin   Educated1984 Studied Milwaukee School of Art & Design/ ValedictorianStudies include: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, anatomy, history of art and architecture   Period Influences Impressionism 1840’s – 1890’sExpressionism 1930’s – 1950’s   Awards/Exhibitions1985 West Bend Art Museum West Bend, WI1984-85 Kohler Arts Center Wisconsin1985 Milwaukee Art Museum 1st Prize Print Gruenwald1993 Special Editions Limited, Chicago, IL1993 Chicago Artexpo, Show cover “Preview Magazine” Chicago, IL1994-2004 New York Artepo2000 KIA Institute of Arts2004West Bend Art Museum West Bend, WI   Galleries1996-2004 Vault Gallery Cambria, CA1998 Eleanor Ettinger, Soho, NY1999 Miranda Gallery Laguna, CA1994- 2003 Emery Fine Arts Kalamazoo, MI2000-2003 Gallery M Denver, CO2002 R.Roberts Gallery Jacksonville, FL2003 Kingsley Art Gallery Red Bank, NJ2004 Newbury Fine Art, Boston , MA2004 Hanson Gallery Sausalito, San Francisco, Car mel   Restoration/ ConservationCathedral of the Assumption Louisville, KY - stained glass windowsPabst Brewery Milwaukee, WI – stained glass mural St. Louis Union Station St. Louis, MO – stained glass windows at entranceSt. Mary’s Church Victoria , TX - stained glassUniversity of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN – stained glassUniversity of Notre Dame, Administrative Building Notre Dame, IN – Rotundra mural, Trompel’oeilUniversity of Notre Dame, Cathedral Notre Dame - interior mural, gold dome guildingAll Faiths Chapel Boystown, NE - stained glassSt. Josaphat’s Basilica Milwaukee, WI – murals, Trompel’oeilSt. Louis Cathedral New Orleans, LA – murals, Trompel’oeilEgyptian Theatre Ogden, UT – mural – fire curtainHawaii Theatre Honolulu, HI – mural- fire curtainHoly Ghost Church Kula, Maui HI – altar, statues from 1874Geary Theatre San Francisco, CA - decorative interiorOrphenm Theatre Phoenix, AZ – color analysisPfister Hotel Milwaukee, WI – grand lobby, ceiling muralStone Manor Lake Geneva, WI – historical decorative finishesSt. Patrick’s Church New Orleans, LA – muralSt. Bernard’s Church Akron, OH – decorative finishesSt. John the Baptist Church Kansas City, KS – decorative finishesUnited Methodist Church Delta, CO – stained glassFourth Presbyterian Church Chicago, IL - decorative wood ceiling panelsIXL Historical Museum Hermansville, MI – ornate hand stenciled ceilingRao Residence Milwaukee, WI – Louis XV Room, gold leafChris Schroeder Insurance Co Milwaukee, WI – marbleizingWisconsin State Capital – free-hand painting, murals, stained glass, bronze & mosaics Minnesota State Capital - free-hand painting, murals, stained glass, bronze & mosaicsWaldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, private suite decorative painting and mural   Place a Bid!