The CRS Gallery announces the Exhibition "Pretty Dresses, Long Legs... Dance Paintings by Meeke Mutter." The exhibition includes expressionistic acrylic paintings of dancers as well as several abstract water-colors and will be on view from September 10 - October 31, 2011. Meeke Mutter is an emerging artist from The Netherlands. She is well known for her beautiful and colorful abstract figurative dance art. She works in acrylic, small works. You will find artists in pretty dresses and with long legs on her canvas like Tina Turner, Natalie Porter, Polina Semionova, The Andrews Sisters or Ella Fitzgerald. Her backgrounds are wild and subtle at the same time. She also makes abstract […]

The CRS Gallery announces a solo exhibition by Junko Yamada of art works composed of thousands of pieces of rice paper in the tradition of harie. The exhibition will be on view from November 4, 2011 - January 4, 2012. By applying modern subject matter and lively colors to a traditional Japanese art form, Junko creates unique works of art on rice paper. These collages are each composed of thousands of pieces of rice paper in the tradition of harie, a style of Japanese art. "Japanese artists have been using unique, strong papers for centuries, since the Nara period. The Japanese value paper in their art and use it in their daily […]