| Arnold Levine and Allen Stamper Exhibition |
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On Friday December 11th, 2009 VAN DER PLAS GALLERY is featuring the art of Arnold Levine and Allen Stamper, "Hudson Valley Landscapes and Figurative Paintings.” The show explores the dialogue between the artists and their respective natural muses—landscapes and the human figure—as well as the seductive similarities of these natural forms. Arnold Levine has been a professional painter for over thirty years. He has taught at colleges and universities in Illinois, California, Arizona, and New York. But while he has lived and worked in many places, from Italy to Vietnam, the Hudson Valley has always called him back. Levine has exhibited in both group and solo shows across the country, and has received numerous awards for his artwork. Arnold Levine has been compared favorably with the best painters of this genre, and names his influences from Tiepolo to Dekooning, with Courbet, Corot and Monet in between. Allen Stamper was born on Oahu in 1947 and has spent most of his life between Hawaii and Nova Scotia, and currently resides in Kingston N.Y. The son of artist Willson Stamper and celebrated children's book illustrator and writer Martha Alexander Stamper was immersed in the arts early on. Formally, he studied drawing with Joe Fehrer in 1964 at the Honolulu Academy of Art followed by a brief apprenticeship with sculptor Eddie Schillacci in New York in 1965, Stamper's primary focus was sculpture until 1978. In 2001 he studied the Renaissance painting technique with Snowden Hodges which prompted his shift to oil painting.
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