Welcome to the May issue of the Geary Gallery Guide. Life is busy, but at Geary Gallery, it’s beautiful. Take some time to relax and reflect on the lush landscapes and elegant still lifes of Pennsylvania fine artist, Jim Rodgers. We also announce the return of award-winning New York pastel artist, Eileen Serwer.

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Featured Artist, May 2013
Jim Rodgers

Born in New Jersey and now a resident of Pennsylvania, Jim Rodgers studied at the Art Students League in New York City, as well as the Ridgewood Art Institute, where he studied landscape painting.

Rodgers paints a wide range of subjects and subject matter, from lush American and European landscapes to intimate genre paintings, as well as elegant and sophisticated still life and floral renderings. His paintings reflect richness in tone and color in his style that comes from more than 30 years of professional study and numerous sojourns throughout America and Europe.

His traditional and American impressionistic training has been augmented by his wanderlust traveling across the U.S. as a working artist, as well as his many trips abroad, including destinations such as England, Ireland, France and Italy. These journeys helped to produce the subject matter and inspiration that is the basis of his painterly impressionistic style.

Rodgers’ paintings focus on the essential details emerging from a cohesive mass augmented with poetic highlights evolving into a hybrid fashioned from painterly and impressionistic inspirations in a contemporary sense. His intention is to capture the mood of the scenes he has painted “en plein air” and rendered in his studio to give the viewer a glimpse of what he has experienced. He tries to evoke an emotional response from the viewer through his poetic portrayal of nature and his concept of a tranche de vie (slice of life) vision.

He has become quite popular with collectors both corporate and private, including jazz recording artist Michael Franks, Joseph M. Goryeb, President and COO at Champion Mortgage, CNBC spokesman and Wall Street investor, Peter Kenny, NHL hockey star Pat LaFontaine, Richard T. Merriman, President and CEO of Pennsylvania Trust, John W. Schmidlin, Chairman of JP Morgan, Pfizer Corporation and Rockefeller Trust.

Rodgers has been affiliated with the Salmagundi Club in New York City and the Delaware Art Museum, and has received numerous awards, including Best in Show-CCA National Show at Ridgewood Art Society, Abigail & Willys Silvers Award-Bianco Gallery Show, and Best in Show-R.S. Galleries Juried Exhibition, Las Vegas.

He is prolific by nature, and has had more than 26 one-man shows, with several recent shows nearly selling out. Rodgers currently resides in the bucolic countryside of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania.

To view Jim Rodgers’ work, visit our online gallery.

Featured Artist, May 2013
Eileen Serwer

A resident of New York City and the East End of Long Island, Eileen Serwer is known for her passion for pastels: Pastel water scenes, pastel street scenes, pastel panoramas. Serwer’s work has been exhibited in many prestigious juried, solo and group shows, including the Salmagundi Club in New York City, The International Association of Pastel Societies, The United Pastelists of America, The Pastel Society of the West Coast, The Degas Pastel Society, The Jemison-Carnegie Heritage Hall Museum in Alabama, The Connecticut Pastel Society, The Pastel Painters of Cape Cod, The Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY, The Blue Hill Cultural Center in Pearl River, NY, The Works Gallery and The National Association of Women Artist’s Gallery, both in New York City.

She has received many awards, including several from the Pen and Brush and Manhattan Arts International. In April 2001, Serwer had an article published in The Artist’s Magazine, entitled “Layers of Suggestion,” wherein she described how she creates pastel paintings. Two of her paintings were selected for the covers of Dan’s Papers and The Montauk Pioneer — both Long Island publications.

Eileen Serwer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College in New York and attended classes at the Art Students League and the Pastel Society of America, where she is a Signature member and taught a landscape workshop in April 2012. Serwer is also a Signature member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast, and a juried member of the Degas Pastel Society and the National Association of Women Artists. She is included in Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in the World and The National Association of Professional Women.

Serwer’s paintings are included in both corporate and private collections throughout the United States, and abroad. They may be seen at The Fitzgerald Gallery in Westhampton Beach, NY and on her websites: www.eileenserwer.com and www.eileenserwerfineart.com.

To view Eileen Serwer’s work, visit our online gallery.

The Jim Rodgers and Eileen Serwer exhibits run from May 1–31, and their paintings are available for acquisition. All are welcome, and admission is free. Geary Gallery is open to the public Wednesdays – Saturdays, 9:30am – 5:00pm, and is located at 576 Boston Post Road in Darien, CT, 06820. For more information, contact (203) 655-6633 or visit www.gearygallery.com.

What a Perfect Gift for Mom!
This Mother’s Day, give mom something she will love forever! Geary Gallery’s portrait service makes it easy and affordable to commission a portrait of a family, individual, pet, home or even favorite vacation spot. Individual portraits are available in oil, pastel or graphite. Houses in pen & ink or acrylic, and pet portraits are available in oil. The artists were chosen due to their mastery of their particular subject and medium, and their portfolios are available to view at our portraits gallery.

Frame Your Special Graduate’s Hard Earned Diploma
Let your graduate know how proud you are of them by letting us professionally frame their diploma. Geary’s Accent Picture Framing features more 2,000 corner samples from which to choose to beautifully mount the diploma, certificate or any special document for the home or office.

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We Deliver Your Art to Your Car
To help parents with babies and small children who are unable to easily leave their car, we recently announced Curbside Pick-up, which allows customers to call from their car when they’re in the gallery parking lot to pick up their work, and a gallery employee will bring it to them. Call (203) 655-6633.