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The Lisa Coscino Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of it's new exhibitions. The Main Gallery will feature the work of GREGG CHADWICK in an exhibition entitled: SCREEN MEMORIES. The Front Gallery will feature the work of MICHAEL THOMAS KAINER in an exhibition entitled: A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF P.G. The exhibitions will open on Friday, June 21, 2002 and continue through August 1st. There will be a RECEPTION on Friday, June 21st from 6-8 pm. Both artists will be present. The Gallery is located at 171 Central Avenue in Pacific Grove.

Gregg Chadwick:

San Francisco painter Gregg Chadwick states about this body of new work:

"My studio has become a room full of real and imagined film stills echoing the countless hours I have spent in darkened rooms engulfed by massive yet fleeting images of beauty. As an art student in Los Angeles and New York I would run from a strident world of theory and dogma into a realm where beauty still seemed to matter. In the chiaroscuro of Coppola I found echoes of Carravaggio. In the haunting poetry of Wim Wenders I discovered traces of Rilke and Beckmann. In Kurosawa I could almost taste Hiroshige's Japan. Film for me was painting brought to life. Film gave me the desire to depict the world in flux.

"Whenever I get the chance I hang around film locations like the pesky paparazzi collecting images of art in process. I am attracted to the spaces between takes. There is an attentiveness to the moment on a movie set just before the cameras roll that approaches the quiet yet active process of painting the first stroke of a freshly stretched canvas.
" In my paintings sometimes new actors appear, the cast changes or the illusion appears illusive. Hidden beneath the final image is a series of takes or alternative scenes, which upon close examination can be seen as transparent ghosts. There are movies buried in the paint."

Michael Thomas Kainer:

Local Artist, Michael Thomas Kainer will be showing paintings painted from the rooftop of his studio in Pacific Grove. As the Exhibit Preparator for the Monterey Museum of Art, Kainer has been the fortunate benefactor of a studio in the historic Holman Building on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove. With the fate of the building as a property of the Monterey Museum of Art unknown, Kainer has been determined to capture 360 degrees of the view from the rooftop of this magnificent building. As a plein air painter known for his beautiful land and sea scapes, this is Kainer's debut painting structures: in these paintings Kainer has not only captured the sea and sky that define Pacific Grove, but all those old buildings that define us as well. This body of work represents a departure for Kainer, fueled by his love of the area and his desire to record this precise moment in Pacific Grove, where the comfort of the past is met with the uncertainty of the future.