PAINTINGS BY MICHELE LIEBLER
AT FIRST STREET GALLERY

UPRISING: Recent Paintings & Works On Paper November 2 - December 4

The First Street Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition "UPRISING" paintings and works on paper by contemporary artist Michele Liebler on November 2. The show continues through December 4.

Since the early Dutch still lifes of Jan Steen to the kitchen interiors of Chardin, artists have been painting images of bread. How does a modest subject become the source for so many paintings? Ms. Liebler's paintings and works on paper in her upcoming exhibition focuses on these traditions in a contemporary format.

Images of french breads, round breads, cakes, and donuts casually arranged on off color-backgrounds give depth and richness in her latest work. Liebler depicts herself in the painting "Bake Sale" almost life-size; she weds her self-portrait to the cake still lifes. The different types of cakes and breads are treated in a gritty realism painting style thru color and texture. Nothing is neutralized in these paintings. Ms. Liebler has given a fresh interpretation of still life painting in her piece "Halloween Day" where donuts and a bright orange pumpkin sit on a window sill with a pale ochre building as the backdrop.

Viewed in its entirety, these breads and cakes signify a personal experience in the paintings, although one gets the feeling of a novelist's transmutation of personal events into fiction.

Ms. Liebler has exhibited extensively on the East Coast in such venues as the Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira NY; College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD; University of Pittsburgh, PA; National Academy of Design, NYC; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown,OH; Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT.

A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, November 4 from 6 to 8 PM. Gallery hours are 11 AM to 6 PM, Tuesday through Saturday.