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Arcadia Contemporary
9428 Washington Blvd , Culver City, CA 90232

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May 12th, 2018 - Opening Saturday from 5-8pm At Arcadia Contemporary Los Angeles, California 9428 Washington Blvd, Culver City CA 90232.

May 24th, 2018 - Opening Thursday from 5-8pm at Galerie L'Oeil du Prince Paris, France 30 Rue Cardinet, 750017, Paris France. Paris, the city of light, the capital of fine art, fashion, and cuisine. With museums housing many of the most famous paintings.

In the world, top fashion houses creating elegant collections, renown chefs serving up delicacies, authors and poets conjuring up unforgettable tales, its no wonder artists flock to this enchanting city.

Paris celebrates the beauty of life everywhere you look and offers a world of inspiration. Throughout history artists have found this inspiration and gained much knowledge by traveling to this great influential city, to stand before the master paintings in the grand museums of Paris, walk the dim lit streets at night and gather a multitude of inspiration. American artists such as James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Cecilia Beaux to Mary Cassatt, have spent time here to study not only the masterworks on the walls, but with the masters themselves such as Bouguereau and Carolus-Duran, hence creating some of the most iconic work in their lifetimes.

The tradition continues today, as a group of fifteen American representational artists journey to Paris together and have created a new collection of work for a bi continental exhibition this May of 2018, based on their voyage. Following in the footsteps of the great American painters before them, this group of well known American representational artists from various schools and regions of the US, travelled to France last year. There they painted together, studied the masters face to face at the top Museums, gleaned how literature can play a role in inspire great paintings, influenced one another with their colors, styles and subjects, discussed artists from past, and painted on location, capturing the ethereal light of the city.

From their voyage each artist has created a new set of paintings to exhibit together this May in Los Angeles and Paris France. Whether they took inspiration from the actual works of American Artists who spent time there, perhaps a self portrait by Chase, or they were influenced by a French novel they read by Flaubert, a poem by Baudelaire. Perhaps they captured enchanting lights of the city, or were inspired by the multitude of blues and greys that changed their palette. Some were inspired by floral still life’s they saw on the walls of the Musée D’Orsay, others by the movement in the Rodin Sculptures. Yet others were inspired by the world of fashion, the rich interiors with velvet sofas and guilded mirrors, or the historical monuments and architecture that abounds. Each took a part of Paris back with them that will appear in their new paintings. We will see first hand how the experience of Paris played a role in shaping their works of today.

The Bi Continental exhibitions, Opening May 12th, 2018 at Arcadia Contemporary a leading Realist gallery in Los Angeles California, and the second at Galerie L’Oeil du Prince in Paris France, will present their finished works as a group.

This exciting new collection will feature self portraits, still life's, landscapes, figures, and cityscapes. The works, ranging from small 8x10 on location studies to larger 24x30 masterworks, will all have a link to a Paris based inspiration that will be noted on the wall placard explaining their influence.