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featured artist

Tony MAGAR
Tony Magar has always been a painter's painter. He is a genuine paint mover
each painting is held together by a solid underlying structure of balance and
form. Despite his free flowing gesture, Tony Magar is an accomplished draftsman
and a pure poet of the painterly language.
In his recent body of work, Magar returns, full force, to his Abstract-Expressionist
roots; pulling together paintings that express a reverence for the past while
maintaining a fresh contemporary vitality.
Music has always been an important element in Magar's creative process. From
In the works of Tony Magar, the tonality of the music translates into the tonality of
the colors in his painting, while the rhythm and tempo become like the gesture
and compositional form.
He is one of the most active remaining artists of the great American
Abstract-Expressionist generation. Magar has an entire chapter in the recent
book 'New American Abstraction 1950-1970' published by Skira. His first exhibition
was at the legendary Martha Jackson Gallery in 1958, where he exhibited side
by side with Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Willem De
Kooning and Franz Kline. Magar was co-founder, along with Mark Di Suvero, of
New York's legendary  'Park Place Gallery'.
Forty-five years later, Tony Magar is still going strong.
New Gallery - Thom Andriola
2627 Colquitt.
Houston. TX 77098
713.520.7053
www.newgallery.net
Crescent
Surf
Time Of Change
Red Cloud
Mending Hearts