FAR EAST TO WEST, A SERIES OF GOUACHE WORKS
Featuring artist Richard Lazzaro
May 18 - June 16
The Downtown Gallery
141 E. Main St., Kent, OH
Richard Lazzaro has been a prominent advocate for abstract
painting for more than 50 years as an artist and educator. Over
the years his experimentation in painting moved away from the
reference of the visible world to an exploration of flat space,
movement, color direct painting and the use of nonspecific
imagery.
His work has been included in several invitational
exhibitions in museums, art centers and galleries throughout
the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and South America.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Lazzaro studied at the Cleveland
Institute of Art, received his BFA (1961) from Kent State
University, and MFA from the University of Illinois. He is an
Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
1963-2001.
Pictured: Random Passages, gouache on paper, 2011,
29"x41", framed: 40"x53"