ACE / FRANCISCO Gallery is pleased to present The View from Here: Three Master Painters Consider the Landscape from September 22nd through October 15th, immediately following its run at The Morris Museum of Art. The View from Here features the work of John Cleaveland , Julyan Davis & Philip Juras, and will be on view at ACE / FRANCISCO Gallery in Suite 1500 of The Leathers Building, with additional work from this show on view in the new OX Fine Art in Suite 1700.

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CLOSING TALK:

October 15th, 2022
SATURDAY
6PM-8PM
All three artists— John Cleaveland, Julyan Davis and Philip Juras— will be present to talk about their work.
Arrive at 6PM, each artist will talk for approximately twenty minutes, then stay to visit after.

From the Morris Museum of Art Catalog:

“Highlighting the work of three consummately skilled contemporary artists, this exhibition addresses the distinctly different ways that each of them views the subject of landscape. They have this in common with landscape painters of the past: underlying their work are themes related as much to self-discovery and self-exploration as they are to the examination of topography.”

At the ACE / FRANCISCO opening of The View from Here, there will be a rare opportunity to purchase signed Fine Art Prints from these two artists. A portion of the proceeds of Cleaveland’s and Juras’ print sales will be donated to The Atticus Gift. To purchase online: John Cleaveland Fine Art Print • Philip Juras Fine Art Print , or you may come to the gallery to purchase and save on shipping and handling costs! Print sales at ACE / FRANCISCO aid the gallery in its mission to hold art shows, to provide part time jobs for student artists and recent arts graduates in the gallery, and to help support student arts organizations in the south.

Artists Featured in The View from Here, photographed by Jason Thrasher:

About the Artists featured in The View from Here:

John L. Cleaveland, Jr., earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Georgia and held a graduate assistantship in the UGA Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy. His work has been widely exhibited and collected. He says that his “paintings are specific expressions of places I’ve been to that I love, that I’m connected to, or that I’m pushed to some expression by. . . . I’m looking for a feeling—something that might tell a greater truth but in a very simple way.” He lives and works in Farmington, Georgia, where he creates the epic views of the landscape that are on display here. 

https://www.johncleaveland.com

English-born Julyan Davis, based in Asheville, North Carolina, was trained at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. In 1988 he traveled to the American South on a painting trip that was fueled by a keen interest in the history of Demopolis, Alabama, and the Bonapartist exiles who settled there. His work, widely exhibited, is included in many public and private collections. He is represented here by The Beidler Triptych, an offshoot of a collaboration begun in 2018 with the South Carolina poet Glenis Redmond that was inspired by the legend of the cymbee, a water spirit, hidden in the swamps and springs throughout the Lowcountry.

https://julyandavis.com


Philip Juras earned a bachelor of fine arts and master of landscape architecture degrees from the University of Georgia. His MLA thesis examined grasslands that flourished in the Southeast before European settlement, a subject that continues to inspire his artwork. He lives in Athens, Georgia, where he explores the rich aesthetics of a wide range of ecologically intact natural environments. He is here represented by several of his “burn paintings,” the result of his direct observation combined with study of the natural science and history of the place depicted. 

https://www.philipjuras.com