The Laguna Art Museum hosts a Artist Talk with David Ligare Thursday October 29 2015.
5:30pm: Light Bites courtesy of Las Brisas.
6:00pm: Artist David Ligare Presentation.
Book Signing to Follow.
This presentation is included with museum membership or museum admission.
David Ligare: California Classicist discusses his work and ideas.
A self-proclaimed Classicist, David Ligare creates perfectly ordered still life, landscape, architectural, and figurative paintings that occupy their own poetic world.
The complete range of his subject matter is represented here in this retrospective exhibition of nearly 80 works.
Although often grouped with California’s Photorealists, the very unreality of Ligare’s paintings and his underlying interest in antiquity belie such a label, and the perfection of his unblemished subjects and hyper-purity of his paint application seem more unearthly than real.
In achieving these qualities, Ligare looks to the ancients for guidance and references the formal relationships found in Classical sculpture and architecture.
Ligare’s paintings are firmly based in the specifics of California—and the Monterey region. allowing Ligare to create art that is richly layered, broadly universal, and yet specifically of our time and place.
Tickets can be reserved in advance by visiting Laguna Art Museum
or calling the Membership and Development Office at (949) 494-8971 extension: 203.
Laguna Art Museum is located at 307 Cliff Drive.
Timed Metered Street Parking is available near the Museum.
