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Julie Hirota, 916-783-2339 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 916-783-2339 end_of_the_skype_highlighting email: jhirota@rosevillearts.org
Gregory Kondos and Shimo
The Blue Line Gallery is proud to present two distigusted painters, Gregory Kondos and Shimo.
Gregory Kondos is one of California’s most prominent artists and is one of themost respected landscape painters in the United States. His landscapes are known nation-wide of Yosemite, the Sacramento River Delta, the coast line with its beaches and rocks, the Southwest, Aix en Provence, France, andthe islands of Greece, his parents’ home land.
Kondos has been an art professor for 30 years and the art gallery at Sacramento City College is named after him. Over the course of his life, he has won many awards including those at two Winter lnvitationals at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, a Dillard Collection prize, Lifetime Achievement award at the Florence Biennale, and being elected into the National Academy of Art, New York.
Shimo, born and raised in Shanghai, China, is a famous contemporary artist, and a national 1st Grade artist. He received his BA from the China People’s Liberation Army Arts Academy (Beijing) in 1983, and his MA from the Shanghai University Art Institute (Shanghai daxue meishu xueyuan) in 2003. He has studied with Jiangsu artist Liu Kansheng (b. 1910, a disciple of Shanghai master Zhang Daqian , 1899-1983), and the celebrated artist Zhang Dazhuang (1903-1980), a faculty member at the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy. Since 2003, he has resided in Sacramento, California.
WHAT: Gregory Kondos and Shimo
WHEN: Jan 12- Feb 25, 2012; Tu-Sat: 11am-3pm, or by appointment
Reception: 3rd Saturday, Jan 21, 7-9pm Public, 6-7pm Members Only
Additional Reception: Feb18, 7-9pm Public, 6-7pm Members Only
WHEN: Jan 12- Feb 25, 2012; Tu-Sat: 11am-3pm, or by appointment
Reception: 3rd Saturday, Jan 21, 7-9pm Public, 6-7pm Members Only
Additional Reception: Feb18, 7-9pm Public, 6-7pm Members Only
WHERE: Blue Line Gallery, 405 Vernon Street, Roseville, CA
About Blue Line Gallery – Roseville Arts! is a non-profit community center for the arts.
405 Vernon St, Ste. 100, Roseville, CA 95678 | (916) 783-4117 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (916) 783-4117 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-3 Closed Sun & Mon
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