Clarence Measelle, Photorealism Still Life Acrylic Painting Flower Photo Realist Orchid, Vivid Blue

Description

Close up of a flower. canvas measures 30 X24 inches.
Clarence Skip Measelle has been featured in over 100 gallery … more Close up of a flower. canvas measures 30 X24 inches.
Clarence Skip Measelle has been featured in over 100 gallery and museum exhibitions, competitions, group shows, and solo shows throughout the US. He is best known for his work in photorealism and abstract illusionism.
The name Photorealism (also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism) was coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy. The exactness was often aided further by the use of an airbrush, which was originally designed to retouch photographs. The movement came about within the same period and context as Conceptual art, Pop art, and Minimalism and expressed a strong interest in realism in art, over that of idealism and abstraction.
The first Photo realists were Chuck Close, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle, Audrey Flack, Denis Peterson, Lowel Nesbitt and Malcolm Morley. Each began practicing some form of Photorealism around the same time, often utilizing different modes of application and techniques, and citing different inspirations for their work. However, for the most part they all worked independent from one another. For example, Chuck Close came of age at the height of Pop art and Andy Warhol's Factory, and was based out of SoHo in lower Manhattan. And Audrey Flack, a graduate of Yale, began creating photo-based works in the early 1960s.


Select Solo Exhibitions

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Fl.
Peter Drew Gallery, Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Fl.
Walton Street Gallery, Chicago, Il.
Circle Galleries: Beverly Hills
Matthew Scott Gallery, Miami, Fl.
Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, Il.
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, Fl.
Palm Beach Galleries, Palm Beach, Fl.
The Palm Gallery, Southhampton, NY.
Norton Gallery, Art Museum of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, Fl.


Select Group Exhibitions

Artist's of the Salon. Armory Art Center Annex. Lake Worth, Fl.
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Liman Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl.
Russeck Gallery, New York, NY. (SOHO) and Palm Beach, Fl.
Armory Art Center Annual Faculty Show, West Palm Beach, Fl
Annette Verschragen Gallery, The Hague Holland
Cima Gallery, "City Place", West Palm beach, Fl.
Haste Gallery, Ipswitch, England
Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philidelphia, Pa.
Aliya Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
Caribbean Gallery, Key West, FL
R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
E. Street Gallery, Galveston, TX
Richard Danskin Gallery, Palm Beach, FL and Palm Desert, CA
Apropos Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago and Highland Park, IL
Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
M. Allen Hortt Memorial Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery,
Ft. Lauderdale Museum of the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Museum of Art, Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, FL
Jeffrey Stricoff Gallery, New York, NY
Two Person Exhibition, The Hornby Gallery, Delray Beach, FL
Peter Drew Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Jack Gallery, New York, NY
Eva Cohon Gallery, Highland Park, IL
Self Portraits by Florida Artists, Cornell Center of Fine Arts, Rollins College, Winter Park,
Realist Invitational, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Southern Realism, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS;
University Museums, University of Mississippi; Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke, VA;
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Five Contemporary Realists, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
Gallery Gemini, Palm Beach, FL
South Florida Artists Invitational, First Bank and Trust of Boca Raton, FL
Art Museum of the Palm Beaches Annual Exhibition, Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach,
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
The Eye of 25, Boca Raton Center for the Arts Invitational, Boca Raton, FL
The Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Art and the Automobile, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
Trosby Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
Artists Biennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La.

Selected Collections

Alabama Power Company, Montgomery, Al.
Bamboo Room/Green Orchid, Inc., Lake Worth, FL
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Department of Natural Resources, State Department, Tallahassee, FL
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Florida State House of Representatives, Tallahassee, FL
Miami Branch, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Miami, FL
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Montgomery & Larson, West Palm Beach, FL
MorseLife Foundation, West Palm Beach, Fl.
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Newsweek, Inc., New York, NY
Palm Beach County Council of the Arts, West Palm Beach, FL
Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach, FL
Sunfest, Inc., West Palm Beach, FL
The Tower Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL less