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Gallery: 110 West Lime Ave Old Town Monrovia CA 91016 Phone: 626-358-5563 Hours: Tu-Sat 1-6pm Online: SegilFineArt.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Save the Date!
Segil Fine Art is pleases to present the new collection of California paintings by urban artist, author and founder of the “L.A. River School of Urban Impressionism,” William Wray in his solo show, Dirty Beauty. William is also debuting his new book of the same title and will be singing copies during the opening wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, Saturday, September 22nd. Dirty Beauty will be on display through Saturday, October 20th. This exhibit will also be available for online viewing at www.segilfineart.com. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 What is Dirty Beauty?It’s finding the charisma in urban pockets most people consider ugly or would never give a second glance. It’s the expression of my feelings for worn out places that I’m trying to portray in my paintings. I’m working from the inside out to make paintings about how I feel about my subjects, rather than copying the obvious beauty of nature. I’m always on the hunt for the urban scene that releases my inner feelings to spark my next painting. The dieing textures of old brick and mortar, the beauty of the conflict of nature trying to reclaim an abandoned area or just a simple backyard with a neglected car inspire me. I sometimes tell myself I’m recording city history in and around my area of the San Gabriel Valley, I think what I’m really doing is getting folks to see a little bit of Dirty Beauty. - William Wray
This month I would like to introduce you to the work of William Wray.
 After traveling around the world most of childhood as an Army brat until his family settled for good in the Costa Mesa / Newport Beach area. Bill Wray began working in the animation business as a teen-ager in the Seventies. Being mostly self-taught and shunning California’s conceptual oriented art schools, he eventually enrolled in The Art Students League in the eighties located in New York to reinforce his spotty art foundation. After deciding the fine art world was to conceptual for the kind of representational work he wanted to do, he went into commercial art.Bill went on to work in writing and drawing comic books, animation and illustration. He is well known for his painting style on the Ren and Stimpy Show, his monthly strip in Mad Magazine and his collaborations with Mike Mignola on Hellboy Jr.  Bill is currently concentrating hard on fine art oil painting centering in on urban landscape work. For the last two years Bill has been a member of LPAPA , Oil painters of America and the California art club and has taking workshops for Ray Roberts, Carolyn Anderson, Matt Smith, Eric Merrill, Frank Serrano, George Strickland and long term study with Jove Wang, He’s currently showing with Segil Fine art in Monrovia, H. J Higgins. In Downtown Los Angles, The Vault in Senora and Just Looking Gallery in San Louis Obispo. His most recent award is the artist choice award at the 2006 SLO painting Festival. Bill resides in Sierra Madre, California with his significant other Sharon and his linguist-gifted parrot Mooky. He believes his biggest contribution to society is not having any children so he can do as many paintings as possible before he’s dead. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collecting Segil Fine Art Artists Last month we introduced you to five of our gallery artists, looking at their price range by size, medium, style and subject matters that the artists are known for. This month we will continue our summery of Segil Fine Art Gallery Artists. Click on the thumbnails of their paintings to go directly to their webpage on segilfineart.com.Taking a Closer Look at the Gallery Artists
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Congratulations to Anna T. Kelly for her acceptance of her painting, "Sierra Morning - Bishop, CA" by The American Artists Professional League’s 79th Grand National Exhibition.
The painting will be on exhibit from Nov. 6th to Nov 26th at the Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10003.
Congratulations to Jennifer Christian for a wonderful and successful show at Segil Fine Art!
 Thank you to our artists and fellow galleries who participated in the Artistic Eden show at the Pasadena Museum of History last month, and to Jay Ewing for his painting donation to the Museum.  SAVE THE DATES
 Segil Fine Art Presents:2007 Exhibit Calendar Dirty Beauty
September 22-October 20 with an Artist’s Reception, Saturday, September 22, 5-8pm Featuring: William Wray One Man Show
November 3-24 with an Artist's Reception Saturday November 3, 5-8pm
Featuring: W. Jason Situ
"Critters"
December 1-30 with an Artist's Reception Saturday December 1, 5-8pm
Featuring: F. “Scotty-Dawg” Garland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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