Picnic #4, Dar Spaincourtsey of Susan Spiritus Gallery
I just received notification that Dar Spain is now (Oops, correction: has been for 20 years) represented by the Susan Spiritus Gallery,Newport Beach (OC).
Gallery press release:
Susan Spiritus Gallery is pleased to be featuring the hand painted work by Dar Spain .
Dar Spain began her career as a landscape painter, working with oils, acrylics and watercolors. In 1981 she began taking photographs and making gelatin silver prints to use as references for her drawings and paintings. When in graduate school, she was introduced to the process of hand coloring and has been using this medium exclusively with her photography ever since.
The Susan Spiritus Gallery is open by appointment only,
Best regards, Doug Stockdale
9/26/08 Update: I had an opportunity this morning to visit the Susan Spiritus Gallery and review the Dar Spains photographs. The first impression is that the painted photographs could be by a contemporary Rembrandt, with the control of the light and shadows, providing a chiaroscuro effect along with the rich colors she uses. Susan also brought our some of Dar’s earlier work and interesting to see the progression in her choice of subjects and how she has been simplifing her composition’s over time to get to the basics of mass, line, shape, color and the creation of form.
