Invitation for Saturday, Oct 8th

M. J. H I G G I N S fine art & furnishings

CARY MESHUL - NEW WORK +

1^st YEAR ANNIVERSARY GROUP SHOW

October 8 – November 19, 2005

Reception: Saturday, October 8, 7 -10 PM

Group show: Matt Aston, Margaret von Biesen, John Brosio, Chati Coronel, Kai Samuel-Davis, Richard Godfrey, Jane Gyer, Jon Higgins, Star Higgins, Jett Jackson, Miguel Osuña, Rebeka Roberts, Nancy Seruto, Dean Triolo, Rosalyn Wiley and John Reiff Williams.

Introducing: Artist crafted & eco-friendly furnishings by David Buckingham, Martha Higgins, Kent Maris, Peri Shefik, Ray Sutton and Mark Walsh.

Cary Meshul

Cary Meshul was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1954. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

As part of his studies for this degree, he spent a year at Hornsey Fine Art Academy in London, England.

His career as an artist has involved both fine art and graphic design. As an art director, he has worked for such companies as Paper Moon Graphics, MGM, NBC, and 20th Century Fox. As a fine artist, his watercolors, ink paintings, and oil paintings have been shown internationally. He has lived in China and Egypt, and has traveled widely in Europe, Russia, and Indonesia. These travel experiences have had a distinctive influence on his life and work.

From 1986 to 1989 he studied with an acknowledged master of Chinese traditional painting in the People’s Republic of China. In addition to satisfying the strict criteria of a formal course of study, he experimented with Western water-color techniques and themes. The integration of a classical art education with Chinese traditional painting found _expression in a subtle blending of East and West, and was to become the foundation for a trans-cultural approach to visual art. At a time when his oil paintings were represented by the Schwartz-Cierlak gallery in Los Angeles, his ink paintings started to be recognized in China. He was represented by Alisan Fine Arts in Hong Kong and his work was acquired by many private and professional collections, including IBM Hong Kong and The Indo-Suez Bank. In 1988 his work was recognized in a nation-wide art competition and was exhibited in The National Gallery of Art, Bejing. He left China just after the student democracy demonstrations of June 1989.

Mr. Meshul lived in Egypt from 1990 to 1994. With the backdrop of the Gulf War and its resulting polarization of East and West, he continued to explore the possibilities of a style not affiliated with time or place. The immense range of historical and contemporary influences manifest in the city of Cairo were enfolded into a series of landscapes and portraits. Although somewhat controversial in Egypt, these pieces were exhibited in a one-man show at the American Cultural Center, Alexandria in 1994.

He presently works in oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and Chinese ink, blending Western and Eastern techniques and themes. Working with acrylics, he has experimented extensively with the use of color to extend the limits of a two-dimensional medium. Concerns of surface and the illusion of depth are realized in a layered, impressionistic technique, with close color harmonies producing an inherent luminescence.

Mr. Meshul’s work can be found in many collections. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is the art director of the Skirball Cultural Center.

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