STUART SHILS: ITALIAN MONOTYPES*

beginning Saturday, April 4th, and continuing through Saturday, May 2nd, 2009.

This exhibition will consist of approximately 26 monotypes of varying sizes executed within the last year.

In the summer of 2008, STUART SHILS traveled to Italy to teach at The Jerusalem Studio School, a program he has previously been involved with in Montecastello de Vibio, Italy and Jerusalem, Israel. Although based outside of Corciano, a town in the province of Perugia, SHILS had the opportunity to travel throughout Campania, Umbria, Tuscany, the Marches, the Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna, and was inspired by the landscape, architecture and fine arts of these regions. These works were derived from the drawings and notes he took while in Italy, and were executed in his studio in Philadelphia.

This exhibition is SHILS’ fifth at Davis & Langdale Company; his work has been shown in galleries and museums across in the country, including Tibor de Nagy in New York, Hackett-Freedman in San Francisco, Mangel Gallery in Philadelphia, Woodmere Art Gallery in Philadelphia, Barton/Ryan Gallery in Boston, Sydne Bernard in Los Angeles and Fenton Gallery in Cork, Ireland.

*In cooperation with Tibor de Nagy Gallery