William Anzalone Exhibit “My Fields” to Open at the Red & White Gallery Saturday

The Red & White Gallery on Fayetteville’s Historic Square is again pleased to present new works by William Anzalone, one of Texas’ most accomplished artists. The exhibit, opening on Saturday, April 12, from 3-6 p.m., features ten new oil paintings on canvas and over 20 gouaches on paper depicting the fields around his Round Top studio.

Anzalone has often looked close to home for inspiration. For years he would walk the nearby roads and fields, taking quick black and white photos that he would use for composition. His color pallet has changed over the years, and his images have hovered between realism and abstraction, but his paintings still have a strong sense of place.

At the heart of his current exhibit, “My Fields,” is further proof that he is a master of the landscape form.As with his previous series, “Louise’s Legacy,” Anzalone’s skill leads us to see more than the obvious.

“One morning I was looking for something to do and I looked out my studio window,” Anzalone related. “The shade was half pulled down and I could see the field framed in with the road winding through it, but the sky was cut off at the tree line. I thought ‘there’s a painting’, so I did a little sketch with the gouaches, and it turned out real nice. So, then I wanted more field in the image, so I did a vertical of it, which started the whole process.”

Anzalone’s work has long been celebrated for capturing the feeling of the Texas landscape and his works in oil on canvas and pastels or gouache on paper are featured in numerous private, corporate, and public collections. Anzalone’s work has been exhibited in key galleries and museums, including The Museum of Fine Art in Houston, positioning him as a significant figure in contemporary art.

After arriving in Texas in 1959, Anzalone still paints nearly eight hours a day, and is still influenced by his move from Brooklyn. “One of the things that impressed me when I first came to Texas was the size of things, so I wanted to give the fields a sense of the enormity of the land around. So that is what these paintings are all about.”

The public is invited to come see Anzalone’s latest paintings and to meet the artist at his opening this Saturday, April 12, from 3-6 p.m. at the Red & White Gallery. (His work can be viewed online now at www.redandwhitegalleryonline. com.)