Monthly Meeting
Monday, February 17 @ 6:30 PM, talk at 7:00 PM
Jason’s Deli, 3437 Poplar Avenue, Memphis. Many members come at 5:30 for dinner and conversation. Jason's offers free ice cream and drinks for participants.
Well known Memphis painter Matthew Hasty will talk to us about his experiences and development as an artist.
Hasty exhibits at the L Ross gallery. His bio there reads: “The work of Matthew Hasty seeks to peel away any feeling of pretense and insincerity to give the viewer respite from a cacophony of visual noise that floods the modern world. By portraying the inherent beauty of the local landscape of this region, the artist tries to create a reverence for the natural world and render a feeling of solace and order amidst the chaos of the everyday. The artist draws upon an inspiration from the landscape painters of the 19th century from the Hudson River School, such as George Inness, as well as numerous Russian landscape painters such as Arkhip Kuindji, Isaac Levitan and Ivan Aivazovsky.
“Matthew Hasty’s work may be found in collections all over the United States as well as France, Germany, Russia, South Korea, and Mexico. One painting is off the coast of the Island of Grenada at the bottom of the sea.”
