craigheadgreen gallery

CRAIGHEAD-GREEN GALLERY // FEB 20 // 5-8PM

CRAIGHEAD-GREEN GALLERY
1011 Dragon Street DALLAS, TEXAS 75207
214.855.0779
CONTACT: Kenneth Craighead, Gallery Director

www.craigheadgreen.com

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Bill Fegan, Harry Ally and John Hathorn

For his first exhibition with Craighead Green Gallery Dallas artist Bill Fegan is
presenting large scale oil paintings on canvas. Fegan was born in Ft.Worth
and attended Southern Methodist University on a Meadows Foundation
Scholarship and then graduated with a BFA in 1972. Fegan has shown his
work both nationally and internationally. The focus of his subject matter
ranges from land and ocean scapes to fields of tall grasses. His thick painterly
style brings a luscious realism to the canvas. His ability to capture light and its
effect on what we see is a recognizable and integral part of his paintings.

Harry Alley lives in both Ohio and Georgia . Recognized as one of the finest
painters in the Southern United Sates, Alley’s large canvasses support deep
layers of media ranging from oil to more experimental materials including
sand, tar, and concrete. His work is a study of human nature, figures posing
perfectly still, painted in unexpected colors. The figure is often the sole point
of interest in the painting. There is a markedly primitive feel to Harry Ally’s
work. Even with his raw figures, each canvas seems like a realistic moment in
nature. Ally believes in truth revealed through abstraction, honesty revealed
through distortion and exaggeration. Harry Ally received a Master of Fine arts
Degree in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas and a
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from Texas Christina University .

John Hathorn is presenting his fourth body of work for exhibition with the
Gallery. Born in Oxford Mississippi he currently resides in Louisiana . Hathorn
received his M Ed at the University of Mississippi , Oxford and then received his
MFA at Florida State University , Tallahassee . These new paintings, titled “The
Baudelaire Sketches”, are part of a series of paintings offering an interpretive
response to poetry, including selected works by the Nineteenth century
French Poet, Charles Baudelaire. Hathorn explains that “the paintings reflect
the significance of correspondence as a tracing of felt experience – exploring
the relationships of image to language and sensation to form.