2008 V-IV
Stephen Pentak has a BA from Union College in Schenectady, NY and a MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. He was recently Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University. He has been involved in numerous solo and group shows across the country and has exhibited in Canada and Israel. Pentak is represented by galleryies across the country including New York, Santa Fe and San Francisco. A four-time Ohio Art Council Individual Artists Fellowship Award Winner, he has also received various Arts and Research Grants from Ohio State University.
In these oil paintings on gessoed birch panels, Pentak instills a sense of tranquility and one’s self into the landscape. Pentak explains these ideas as, “Each painting is a measure of time: time spent observing, time spent reflecting, and time spent in the act of painting. The paintings in this show are conscious of time: not so mych the ‘time of day’ or ’season’ that may be suggested, but time’s relationship to memory. In these paintings memory is an act of constant reconstruction. River-views, creek-side places, small observations: each of these are gathered at I count the waters.”
Please do stop in to view this striking exhibition before it comes down Saturday, January 3, 2009.
