The View from Here Opens in Athens, Georgia
The View from Here pictured here at ACE/FRANCISCO Gallery and also on view at John Cleaveland’s new gallery, OX Fine Art, respectively in Suites 1500 and 1700 of the Historic Leathers Building in downtown Athens, Georgia
Direct to ACE / FRANCISCO Gallery and OX Fine Art in Athens, Georgia
from The Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia:
The View From Here: Three Master Painters Consider the Landscape: Recent Work by John Cleaveland, Julyan Davis, and Philip Juras
SEPTEMBER 22- OCTOBER 15, 2022
Opening Reception:
September 22, 6PM-8PM
at the ACE / FRANCISCO Gallery at The Leathers Building, Suite 1500, 675 Pulaski Street, Athens, GA; and OX Fine Art at The Leathers Building, Suite 1700, 675 Pulaski Street, Athens, GA.
Artists John Cleaveland and Philip Juras will be present at the opening on September, 22nd.
This will also be a rare opportunity to purchase signed fine art prints from this show from both Cleaveland and Juras, as neither of these artists has ever offered prints of their work.
Photographer Jason Thrasher traveled across the south with John Cleaveland to photograph each of the painters, and the writers who wrote about them, in the show's catalogue in preparation for the Morris Museum show; and because of this connection, the show will be coming to Athens to the ACE / FRANCISCO Gallery and to Cleaveland's brand new gallery a few doors down, OX Fine Art.
From the Morris Museum of Art Catalog for the show:
“Highlighting the work of three consummately skilled contemporary artists, this exhibition addresses the distinctly different ways that each of them views the subject of landscape. They have this in common with landscape painters of the past: underlying their work are themes related as much to self-discovery and self-exploration as they are to the examination of topography.”
John Cleaveland by Jason Thrasher
John L. Cleaveland, Jr., earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Georgia and held a graduate assistantship in the UGA Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy. His work has been widely exhibited and collected. He says that his “paintings are specific expressions of places I’ve been to that I love, that I’m connected to, or that I’m pushed to some expression by. . . . I’m looking for a feeling—something that might tell a greater truth but in a very simple way.” He lives and works in Farmington, Georgia, where he creates the epic views of the landscape that are on display here.
The Nature of Remembrance, John Cleaveland. On view at OX Fine Art in Athens, GA.
Julyan Davis by Jason Thrasher
English-born Julyan Davis, based in Asheville, North Carolina, was trained at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. In 1988 he traveled to the American South on a painting trip that was fueled by a keen interest in the history of Demopolis, Alabama, and the Bonapartist exiles who settled there. His work, widely exhibited, is included in many public and private collections. He is represented here by The Beidler Triptych, an offshoot of a collaboration begun in 2018 with the South Carolina poet Glenis Redmond that was inspired by the legend of the cymbee, a water spirit, hidden in the swamps and springs throughout the Lowcountry.
Philip Juras by Jason Thrasher
Philip Juras earned a bachelor of fine arts and master of landscape architecture degrees from the University of Georgia. His MLA thesis examined grasslands that flourished in the Southeast before European settlement, a subject that continues to inspire his artwork. He lives in Athens, Georgia, where he explores the rich aesthetics of a wide range of ecologically intact natural environments. He is here represented by several of his “burn paintings,” the result of his direct observation combined with study of the natural science and history of the place depicted.
Philip Juras, Pulling Away, Upson County, GA. On view at ACE / FRANCISCO Gallery in Athens, GA.