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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#777777" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>BARRY</B></div> <div> <B>MASTELLER</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="paintings.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paintings"><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PAINTINGS</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="artist_statement.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artist Statement"><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ARTIST STATEMENT</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">BIOGRAPHY / UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="essay_by_donald_kuspit.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ESSAY BY DONALD KUSPIT"><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ESSAY BY DONALD KUSPIT</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="essay_by_dominique_nahas.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Essay by Dominique Nahas"><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ESSAY BY DOMINIQUE NAHAS</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="essay_by_kathleen_moody.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Essay by Kathleen Moody"><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ESSAY BY KATHLEEN MOODY</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="essay_by_marcelle_polednik.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Essay By Marcelle Polednik"><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ESSAY BY MARCELLE POLEDNIK</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="artworks_magazine_article.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ArtWorks Magazine Article"><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ArtWorks MAGAZINE ARTICLE 2008</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="archives.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Archives"><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ARCHIVES</B></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#777777" TEXT="#080000"> <div>  <A NAME="top_of_page"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="3d02cb30.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="179" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Contact</B>:  barry_masteller@live.com</div> <bR> <div> <B>Links</B>: <A HREF="http://claypoolefreesegallery.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://claypoolefreesegallery.com">www.claypoolefreesegallery.com</A></div> <bR> <div>             <A HREF="http://rovzargallery.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://rovzargallery.com">www.rovzargallery.com</A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>UPCOMING EXHIBITION</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Elanor D. Wright Museum of Art</B></div> <div> Hollins University</div> <div> 7916 Williamson Road</div> <div> Roanoak, Virginia  20420</div> <div> 540-362-6532</div> <div> www.hollins.edu</div> <div> June 16- September 19, 2009</div> <bR> <div> _________________________________</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>BIOGRAPHY: </B></div> <bR> <div> Born:  Echo Park District, Los Angeles, California</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Solo Exhibitions:</B></div> <bR> <div> 2008 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Paintings, Seattle, WA</div> <div> 2007 The Grace Museum,<I> </I><I>Earth + Sky</I>, Abilene, TX</div> <div> 2007 Caldwell / Snyder Gallery, <I>Recent Paintings</I>, Saint Helena, CA</div> <div> 2007 Caldwell / Snyder Gallery,<I> </I><I>Recent Paintings</I>, San Francisco, CA</div> <div> 2007 Trajan Gallery, Carmel, CA</div> <div> 2007 Wiregrass Museum of Art,<I> Imagined Journey's</I>, Dothan, AL</div> <div> 2007 Dubuque Museum of Art, <I>'Cityscapes'</I> Dubuque, IA</div> <div> 2006 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA</div> <div> 2006 Campton Gallery, New York, NY</div> <div> 2006 Trajan Gallery, Carmel, CA </div> <div> 2006 Monterey Museum of Art, <I>Monterey Now</I>, Monterey CA,</div> <div> 2006 Museum of the Southwest, <I>Mythical Landscapes</I>, Midland, TX</div> <div> 2005 Campton Gallery, <I>Recent Paintings</I>, New York, NY</div> <div> 2005 Anderson Fine Art Center, <I>Boulevards</I>, Anderson, IN</div> <div> 2004 Caldwell / Snyder Gallery, New York, NY</div> <div> 2003 Trajan Gallery, Carmel, CA </div> <div> 2003 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA </div> <div> 2002 Caldwell / Snyder Gallery, New York, NY </div> <div> 2002 Caldwell/Snyder Gallery, San Francisco,CA </div> <div> 2001 Caldwell/Snyder Gallery, New York, NY </div> <div> 2001 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA </div> <div> 2000 Caldwell/Snyder Gallery, San Francisco,CA </div> <div> 1999 Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland,WA </div> <div> 1998 Robert Aichele Gallery, Menlo Park, CA </div> <div> 1997 Tamara Bane Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA </div> <div> 1997 Emmie Smock Gallery, San Francisco, CA </div> <div> 1996 Lisa Parker Fine Art, New York, NY </div> <div> 1995 Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA </div> <div> 1994 Shaklee Corp Gallery, San Francisco,CA </div> <div> 1993 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA </div> <div> 1993 Bank of America World Headquarters Gallery, </div> <div>           San Francisco, CA </div> <div> 1990 Claypoole-Freese Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA </div> <div> 1989 Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA </div> <div> 1989 Shaklee Corp Gallery, San Francisco, CA </div> <div> 1986 PDA Gallery, Carmel, CA </div> <div> 1985 Site 311 Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA </div> <div> 1984 Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA </div> <div> 1984 Maple Gallery, San Diego, CA </div> <div> 1983 Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA </div> <div> 1983 Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA </div> <div> 1982 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA </div> <div> 1981 Maple Gallery, San Diego, CA </div> <div> 1981 Rubicon Gallery, Los Altos, CA </div> <div> 1981 Collectors Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA </div> <div> 1979 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA </div> <div> 1978 Will Stone Collection, San Francisco,CA </div> <div> 1977 Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA </div> <div> 1975 Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA </div> <div> 1968 Jabberwock Gallery, Los Angeles, CA </div> <div> 1967 La Cienega Gallery, Los Angeles, CA </div> <div> 1967 Playhouse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA</div> <bR> <div> <B>Group Exhibitions:</B></div> <bR> <div> 2007/2006<I>  Annual Group Exhibition</I>, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA</div> <div> 2007/2006/2005/2004/2003/2002/2001/2000/1999<I> </I><I>Annual Group Exhibition</I></div> <div>           Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA. </div> <div> 2006 "<I>Monterey Collects"</I><I> Monterey Museum of Art</I></div> <div> <I>2004 "Masters of the Sea</I>" Five Centuries of Marine Painting. </div> <div>            Hartnell College Gallery Salinas, CA </div> <div> 2004 Art Chicago, Chicago, Ill </div> <div> 2004<I> San Francisco International Art Exposition</I>, San Francisco, CA </div> <div> 2003 Caldwell / Snyder Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition </div> <div> 2003 Monterey Museum of Art, Annual Juried Show, </div> <div>           Juror: Scott Shields. First Award in Painting. </div> <div> 2003 <I>Six Centuries of Portraits, Part 2</I>. Hartnell College, Salinas, CA </div> <div> 2003 Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, CA. "<I>Artist's at the Edge</I>" </div> <div>            with: David Kimball Anderson, William Henry, Roy Lichtenstein, John   Babcock, Sirima Sataman, Brian Coleman, Marsha Blaker-DeSomma, Paul DeSomma,  Melita Crowie, Leo Bersamina, James Morris, John Hylton, Masima Teraoka. </div> <div> 2003 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL </div> <div> 2002 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN. "Summer Group Exhibition" </div> <div>           with: Marcia Myers, Scott Duce, Anita Huffington, James Crosby, Bennett Bean,  Thomas   Ostenberg, Walter Anderson, Jeff Muhs, Peter Hershberger, Roy Timboli, Ted Larson, Charles Carraway,, Wade Hoeffer, Edith Caywood, Jillian Banks, Gary Bukovnick, Peter Opheim, Carroll Cloar, Joe Andoe. </div> <div> 2002 Art Miami, Miami, Fl </div> <div> 2002<I> Land and Legacy</I>, Monterey Museum of Art at La Mirada. </div> <div> 2002 San Francisco International </div> <div>           Art Exposition, Caldwell / Snyder Gallery </div> <div> 2001/2000 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA. "Gallery Artist's" </div> <div> 2000 Woodward Gallery, NYC. "<I>Trees</I>" </div> <div>           with: Connie Borup, Marilyn Bridges, Deborah Claxton, Kyu Nam Han, </div> <div>           Joseph Hyde, Bill Martin, Charles Yoder. </div> <div> 1999 <I>Air Born,</I> Monterey Airport Terminal, CA. </div> <div>           with: Robert Matheny, Marc Destout, Paul Jacobson, Jon Pittman. </div> <div> 1999 California State Art Collection, California Senate, Sacramento, CA </div> <div> 1999 Woodward Gallery, NYC. "<I>Outdoors/Inside</I>" </div> <div>           with: Hugo Bastidas, David Febland, Hiro Ichikawa, Margaret Morrison, </div> <div>           Christina Vergano, Allen Whiting, Charles Yoder. </div> <div> 1998 Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA </div> <div> 1998 Santa Cruz Museum of Art. </div> <div> 1998 Carl Cherry Center for the Arts,Carmel, CA</div> <div> 1998 Monterey Museum of Art at LaMirada,Monterey,CA. "<I>Towards the    Millennium</I>" with: Rick   Arnitz, Manual Neri, David Ligare, David Martin-Loza, David Seiler, Raymond Saunders, Sara Carter, Christopher Brown. </div> <div> 1997 Tamara Bane Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA </div> <div> 1997 Emmie Smock Gallery, SanFrancisco, CA </div> <div> 1996 Lisa Parker Fine Art, NYC </div> <div> 1993 Claypoole/Freese Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA </div> <div> 1991 Juried Biennial, Phillip Linhares, Oakland Museum </div> <div>           at Monterey Museum of Art. </div> <div> 1991 Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA </div> <div> 1991 Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA. "<I>For Better or For Worse</I>" </div> <div>           with: Michael Mew, Laura Raboff, Carl Dern,Kathleen Jesse. </div> <div>           Mary Louise-Stanley, Paul Pratchenko, Mark Stock, Edwardo Carillo, </div> <div>           Inez Storer, Rupert Garcia, Anita Benson. </div> <div> 1990 Claypoole/Freese Gallery,Pacific Grove,CA </div> <div>           with: Deanna Forbes, Karen Nagano, Michael Pavlov, Gerald Richman. </div> <div> 1988 Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery,NYC. "Summer Group Show" </div> <div> 1988 University of California Santa Cruz. "<I>Exemplary Contemporary</I>", </div> <div>           Juror: Richard Koshalek. </div> <div> 1988 Newport Harbor Art Museum,CA </div> <div> 1987 J.J. Brookings Gallery,CA. </div> <div>           with: Lawrie Brown, Monroe Hodder, Jim Jacob, Geir Jordahl, </div> <div>           Ken Matsubara, William Morehouse, Mark Templeton, Lee Tribe, Todd Watts. </div> <div> 1986 Vorpal Gallery,San Francisco,CA </div> <div>           with: Peter Wayne Lewis, Kenneth Matsumoto. </div> <div> 1985 Monterey Museum of Art, CA. "<I>Works in Wood</I>" </div> <div>           with: Jeremy Anderson, John Buck, Michael Cooper, Dovey Dee, Colin Gray, </div> <div>           Sam Hernandez, Anthony Priolo, Italo Scanga, Dan Snyder, Michael Stevens, </div> <div>           James Surls, H.C. Westerman. </div> <div> 1985 Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA. "<I>A Serious Look at Humor</I>" </div> <div>           with: Ruth Bavetta, Dwan Beveridge, James Buddle, Gael Crimmins, </div> <div>           William Crutchfield, John Egan, Kari Hildebrand, Jim Jenkins, Paula, Kersulis, </div> <div>           Pat Klotz, Martha Matthews, Julie Medwedeff, William Otten, Everett Peck, </div> <div>           Jeff Reed, Karen Innis Reid, Craig Shannon, Robin Van Lear, Gordon Wagner, </div> <div>           Earnest Wrege, Ray Jacob, Clyd San Juan, Lars Isrealson. </div> <div> 1985 Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA </div> <div>           with: Earnest Wrege, Martha Matthews. </div> <div> 1984 San Francisco Arts Commission. "<I>Small Works Invitational</I>" </div> <div> 1984 Monterey Museum of Art. "<I>Oh Well Orwell Invitational</I>" </div> <div> 1984 Maple Gallery, San Diego, CA </div> <div>           with: Russell Forester, Andrea Hoffman, Christopher Lee, Peter Mitten,</div> <div>           Mario Urebe, W.Hasse Wojtyla. </div> <div> 1983 Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA "<I>Winners</I>" Survay Invitational. </div> <div> 1981 Pacific Grove Art Center. "<I>Three Friends</I>" </div> <div>           with: Gordon Wagner, Elsbeth Ramos. </div> <div> 1981 Taylor Gallery, Taos,NM. Gallery Artists </div> <div> 1979 Juried Annual, Paul Mills, </div> <div>           Monterey Museum of Art </div> <div> 1977 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey California </div> <div> 1976 Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History </div> <div> 1976 Juried Annual, Alexander Napote. First Award </div> <div>           Monterey Fair Grounds Contempoary Gallery </div> <div> 1975 Juried Annual, Harry X. Ford, Best of Show, </div> <div>           Monterey Museum of Art. </div> <div> 1974 Monterey Museum of Art. </div> <div> 1973 Lincoln Gallery, Carmel, CA </div> <div> 1972 Pacific Grove Art Center. </div> <div>           with: Jim Casteel, Robert Divale. </div> <div> 1971 Pacific Grove Art Center. </div> <div>           with: Jim Casteel, Robert Divale, Victor Digesu, Janet Amant. </div> <div> 1967 McKenzie Gallery, Los Angeles,CA </div> <div> 1967 Third Eye Gallery, Encino,CA </div> <div> 1964 Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles,CA. City wide juried show, Barnsdale Park</div> <bR> <div> <B>Bibliography:</B></div> <div> (Not including articles and exhibition reviews)</div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, 'Oh well Orwell', Monterey Museum of Art, Rick Deragon 1984 </div> <div> The California Art Review, American References, Les Crantz 1989 </div> <div> Who's Who in American Art, R.R Bowker 1993-1994 </div> <div> Who's Who in American Art, R.R. Bowker 1995-1996 </div> <div> New American Paintings, Volume 1 Number IV, Open Studios Press, 1996 </div> <div> Who's Who in American Art, R.R. Bowker 1997-1998 </div> <div> Who's Who in American Art, Marquis 1999-2000 </div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1988 </div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, <I>'Night of the Mask</I>', Newport Harbor Art Museum 1994 </div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, Lisa Parker Fine Art, New York 1996 </div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, Caldwell / Snyder Gallery, Kristin Dickson, San Francisco 2000 </div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, WA 2001 </div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, Caldwell / Snyder Gallery, New York 2001 </div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, Caldwell / Snyder Gallery, New York / San Francisco 2002 </div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, Trajan Gallery, Carmel, Ca 2003</div> <div> Exhibition Catalog, <I>Recent Paintings</I>, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA</div> <div> <I>Boulevards</I>, Traveling Exhibition Catalog, Marcelle Polednik and Donald Kuspit</div> <bR> <div> <B>Selected Collections:</B></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="509" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 487 WIDTH="252"><div> Palm Springs Art Museum</div> <div> Crocker Art Museum, </div> <div>    Sacramento, CA </div> <div> San Jose Museum of Art </div> <div> Seven Bridges Foundation,</div> <div>     Greenwich, CT</div> <div> Bank of the West. San Jose, CA </div> <div> Saratoga Capital, San Jose, CA </div> <div> Alicante Hotel </div> <div> Payden and Rygel Investments, </div> <div>   Los Angeles, CA </div> <div> Stoffer Hotel, Los Angeles </div> <div> Weight loss Clinics </div> <div> Gonzaga University, WA </div> <div> Monterey Museum of Art </div> <div> First Capital Corp </div> <div> Garrison Capital </div> <div> J.W. Robinson Co. </div> <div> Coldwell Banker Corp </div> <div> Home Federal </div> <div> Pebble Beach Co. </div> <div> Prudential Insurance </div> <div> Monterey Conference Center </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="246"><div> Roche Bioscience / Syntex Corp. San Jose, CA </div> <div> Bank of America World Headquarters,            </div> <div>    San Francisco, CA</div> <div> Price Waterhouse,NYC </div> <div> Sapporo Royal Hotel, Japan </div> <div> C&H Sugar </div> <div> Club Corp. </div> <div> Bachalter, Neimer, Fields & Younger. </div> <div> Lifescan / Johnson & Johnson </div> <div> Hyatt Regency, Chicago </div> <div> Tanimura & Antle</div> <div>     Salinas, CA </div> <div> Crowne Plaza Hotel, NYC </div> <div> Cypress Inn, Carmel,CA </div> <div> Santa Cruz Museum of Art </div> <div> Duke Energy </div> <div> Siemans AG, Beijing </div> <div> Veritas Software </div> <div> Beshoff,  San Jose, CA </div> <div> National Steinbeck Center. </div> <div>    Salinas,CA</div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Barry Masteller inaugurates 'Monterey Now' series at MMA</B></div> <bR> <div> By LISA CRAWFORD WATSON</div> <div> Herald Correspondent</div> <bR> <div> An art museum, if it is to achieve an appreciable standing in any community, curates and collects some of the most exceptional art in the world. Yet sometimes communities end up detached, even estranged, from the local art museum. Exceptional should not mean inaccessible.</div> <bR> <div> That's what the Monterey Museum of Art is striving to accomplish with its new invitational, biannual series titled "Monterey Now," which focuses on contemporary artists residing in Monterey County.</div> <div> The idea came from MMA's director of collections and exhibitions, Marcelle Polednik, who was looking for something different, even edgy -- something contemporary that would solicit various local artists to reveal a new body of work at the museum. Modeled after nationally acclaimed series such as the Whitney Museum of Art's Bucksbaum Award, the mission of "Monterey Now" according to Polednik, "is to identify and commend local artists who have made a significant contribution to the visual arts, regionally as well as nationally. What everyone is to understand from the title is that the series is about this community and the artists who live here." The inaugural exhibit of "Monterey Now" features recent work by Barry Masteller, one of the Peninsula's most highly regarded artists, who will unveil 10 paintings from his Boulevard Series, never before exhibited in Monterey County."For a number of reasons, Barry was the first artist we asked to participate in the series, Polednik said. He has been an outstanding Peninsula artist for a very long time, in which he has had a long history with the museum. During three solo exhibits and numerous others, including two images in our current 'Monterey Collects' exhibit, our paths have been enmeshed. In this new and exciting series for the museum, it is wonderful to go forward as a team with someone who has been an advocate for the museum and whom the museum has supported for a very long time."</div> <bR> <div> Perhaps the most exciting element of this exhibit is Masteller's departure from his signature landscapes, both soft and sensual as in his "Earth and Sky" series, to these more structural, more linear boulevard cityscapes.</div> <div> "I fondly remember the phone call from Barry while he was on a visit to New York City," said Lisa Parker, director of Trajan Gallery in Carmel, which will host a comprehensive exhibit of Masteller's work in September. "He was seeing this city again for the first time. This time he explored the streets and buildings from his hotel window perched high above the illuminated surfaces of Manhattan at night.</div> <div> "He told of the lines he could see created by buildings and painted streets as they cut across one another, bending to permit the passage of a car here, a pedestrian there and all merging to create a new landscape. Barry was at once fascinated and exhilarated, and he was ready to get back to his studio where he would begin what he has titled, the 'Boulevard Paintings.' For those who have followed the international art career of this longtime Monterey County resident, Masteller's work reflects both a return to earlier interpretations as well as who he is and how he represents himself today. His avowed mentors, among them Rembrandt, Turner, Monet, Matisse, Magritte and Ernst, continue to inspire his work, yet the tonalist influence present in his series echoes the aesthetic of early Peninsula tonalists Arthur Mathews, Xavier Martinez and Gottardo Piazzoni.</div> <bR> <div> "This series is a fairly large departure for Barry in terms of subject matter," said Polednik. "He's really created a new category of art making, taking an aesthetic -- tonalism -- that has its roots on the Peninsula, and adding to it a subject matter -- the city -- that has never really been combined with the tonalist aesthetic. It becomes a kind of 'urban tonalism,' which is pretty extraordinary because Barry is using the qualities of light, these effanescent tones, applied to a very contemporary, very urban setting. At once it is a departure but at the same time is contiguous with the style of work he had been doing." Masteller recognizes similarities between his landscapes and recent cityscapes, particularly in the introduction of evening or early light, whether the source emanates from a shop or restaurant window, or the rising or setting sun."I am certainly best known for my landscapes," he said, "and my boulevard paintings are moving in a new direction, so people will likely see them as something very different from what they're used to. In some ways they are and some ways, not."It's always difficult to say what leads to these departures. My landscapes dealt with nature, unaffected by the hand of man -- no roads or bridges or fences or structures -- whereas these boulevard paintings are cityscapes, all about the hand of man. They definitely gave me an opportunity to do work that is more architectural, more linear, which I really like a lot." "Monterey Now" opens with "Boulevard Series" this week on "Third Thursday," when the museum is open to the public. The exhibit will continue through Oct. 29. Meanwhile, on Sept. 16, the museum will present, "In Dialogue: A Conversation between Barry Masteller and Marcelle Polednik," at the museum's La Mirada galleries."From his Surrealist-inspired canvases of the mid-1970s through his poetic landscapes of the late 1990s, Barry Masteller has demonstrated a profound intellectual curiosity and sustained passion for art making," said museum Executive Director Michael Whittington. "The Monterey Museum of Art is honored to celebrate his important contribution to the visual arts community."</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  All text and images contained on this site copyright Barry Masteller 2008</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#top_of_page" TITLE="Biography / Upcoming Exhibitions">Return to top of page</A></div> <bR> <div> <I> </I></div> <div>       <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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