"Gatherings in Paint"
Mark LaRiviere
June 14th 2011 - July 16th 2011
Opening & Artists Reception Thursday, June 16th 2011 6-9pm

Crowell’s Fine Art is proud to present this exhibition of paintings by accomplished artist Mark LaRiviere. A graduate of the Swain School of Design (B.F.A. 1979) and Parsons School of Design (M.F.A. 1981) LaRiviere has built an extensive exhibition history.

“Gatherings in Paint” is the artist first solo exhibition in the South Coast.

Artist Statement
These paintings of figures have been with me since my beginnings.  My first stirrings as an artist have been to make convincing people, either singularly or in groups.  As I learned the power of paint, color, space, and all the accoutrements that go with ones attempt to make paintings,  I at times hid the figures behind a vail of texture, form and paint.  But an artist's forms are persistent.  An artist may clothe them in the style of the day, in the manner that is recognizable to others, yet what forms one chooses to paint, or what forms are chosen for the artist by the spirits that guide us will always rise and demand to be seen if the artist works at their craft long enough and diligently.

So here these paintings are, in the incarnation that best suits me as an artist at this time, and that challenges me and my craft with all the diligence I can muster day to day.

Mark LaRiviere
June, 2011

About the Artist 
Mark LaRiviere has had many exhibitions of paintings and has been invited to show work in many group shows. He was a member of the Bowery Gallery in New York, was invited to have a one person show and a two person show at the Painting Center in New York in 1994 and 1995. He has had paintings shown at the National Academy of Design and the National Arts Club in New York, as well as in various galleries in New York City.

Mark LaRiviere have been painting steadily since completing graduate work in 1981, studying with Paul Resika, Leland Bell and John Heliker. He traveled to Italy in 1983 to study early and late Renaissance paintings. He returned to New York in 1984 to receive a Charles H. Revson Fellowship through the New York Studio School.

LaRiviere spent five summers in France studying paintings in Paris and the Cave paintings in the Dordogne Region, before moving to upstate New York to spend his summers painting and gardening.