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Alan Turner: Drawings from Nature - November 12 – December 10, 2006
The Hebrew Home at Riverdale is pleased to announce its latest exhibition Alan Turner: Drawings from Nature which features recent large and small-scale works on paper. Based on a series of drawings done in situ by a stream in Connecticut, they reflect the intensity and vigor that characterize Turner’s work.
The artist describes the drawings as works “that re-imagine a tradition of life drawing and meditate on the nature of mutability and sequence.” By observing nature and deconstructing the obvious, Turner simultaneously simplifies and then re-creates the world before him – trees, branches, rocks, water. Other drawings are executed in the studio where subject and medium converge. The sinuous lines guide the viewer’s eye through these “landscapes of water” occasionally interrupted by short, static marks. Included in the exhibit are also intimate watercolors and black and white line drawings. Part of the exhibit was taken from his show last month at the Bronx River Art Center.
Alan Turner currently lives and works in New York City. A Bronx native and graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Turner has exhibited in the United States and internationally at galleries in New York and Europe. His work is also in such major museums as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachusetts.
The exhibit will be on view from November 12 – December 10, 2006, where it is open to the public free of charge from 10 – 4 pm daily.
As a member of the American Association of Museums, the Home is committed to exhibiting contemporary and modern works of art. The Hebrew Home at Riverdale, which houses a collection of 20th century art, is a nonprofit, non-sectarian geriatric center serving more than 3,000 elderly persons through its resources and community service programs. Its 19-acre main campus overlooks the Hudson River at 5901 Palisade Avenue in Riverdale. For further information regarding the exhibition or the Hebrew Home’s art collection, contact the Curator’s Department at (718) 581-1596 or the Public Relations Department at (718) 581-1225.
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