Directors Choice 2014

January 17th, 2014 – March 15th, 2014

Every few years, we discover that we’ve added a number of unique items to the gallery collection without having a chance to work them into exhibitions.  These objects seem to have a certain force—a compelling presence that makes one ponder a circumstance where they might finally be shown to others.  Sometimes they haunt our memories, or even invade our dreams; sometimes the din of cries from artwork demanding to be exhibited grows too loud in the storage rooms—then we know their time has come.

In the past, Director’s Choice exhibitions have allowed us to exhibit these eclectic groupings from the gallery’s collection.  Previous exhibitions have included Modernist American and European paintings and sculptures, Italian art glass, American and Japanese studio pottery, Asian art and African art.

This year, we’ve decided to include contemporary art as well, drawing from the artists we represent in Cleveland; Akron; Detroit; Baltimore; New York; Chicago; Seattle; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; and Bauru, Brazil.  Selections will include paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photography and video art.

Scott McIntire [Greenport, NY]
Solo Exhibition
March 21st, 2014 – May 10th, 2014

Scott McIntire’s paintings hum with an energy and vibrancy.  In many cases, the pieces do more than hum—they crackle.  The concentric circles and energy fields in his pieces add a kinetic feeling to his work, while providing a cohesive unity of space.  These elements also give evidence to his superior skills with a brush, as well as his mastery as a color theorist.

In his painting, Fat Man and Little Boy, McIntire depicts the Manhattan Theater, its marquee majestically reaching toward the heavens, the current film, Fat Man and Little Boy, a reference to the Manhattan Project and the bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  In the energized, nocturnal sky, two sets of concentric circles radiate outward, representing each detonation, while energy fields swirl and pulsate with a radioactive half-life in the background—the cool blues becoming a fiery orange, as it dips toward the earth.

In his painting, Attack of the 50ft Woman, McIntire plays with the pallete.  This painting also depicts a nocturnal scene, as Attack of the 50ft Woman plays on the drive-in movie screen, but the vivid warmth of the sky glows with the brilliant luminescence of daylight.  The speakers emerging toward the foreground elicit the feeling of sound or music, as the kinetic energy dances in the background—the concentric circles and energy fields evoking the excitement of cinematic experience and memories of a bygone era. 

Scott McIntire has exhibited throughout the US and abroad, including Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery’s international cinema exhibitions.

 

 

Director’s Choice 2014
January 17th, 2014 – March 15th, 2014

 

Scott McIntire [Greenport, NY]
Solo Exhibition
March 21st, 2014 – May 10th, 2014

Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery

1305 West 80th Street

Cleveland, Ohio 44102

kennethpaullesko.com

216.631.6719

 

 

Images:

Preston Buchtel
“Dreams During Wartime II”
2/10
2012
Archival Pigment Print on Cotton Rag Paper
12 x 12 inches

Scott McIntire
Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman
Enamel on Canvas
24 x 48 inches