I love baseball and have long been a fan of the Pirates. When I saw this painting it simply tugged at something in me and I had to have it. I gave it to my brother in law for his birthday and he loves it as
well! I am visiting right now, and the baseball and mitt painting is directly in my line of sight. It is lovelier in person than I would have thought!
~ Dr. Bridgit Gilmore, Scotland
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I have just looked through your website and am blown away by your paintings. Your colors are unlike any others I've seen in their fidelity to mood, atmosphere, and place.
- Martha Marshall
I have to say that, while you are a self-taught artist, you did have a most excellent teacher! I maintain, again, that you have had one of the very best teachers, one who listens within as a well as sees from that perspective. How I wish more, or all artists were as honest as you. Meanwhile, your work is a tribute to life, for which I am grateful and inspired. 'Stay the course'- you and your works are blessings to us all.
- Dave Wilson
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When I view a scene, I see more than just what lies in front of me. I feel the presence of the past, of others that existed before me. I wonder what these people thought as they viewed the same scene, worked the land and lived out their lives on it. Changes in weather, light and seasons also work together to form a yearning for permanence that I have to distill on canvas. It's this evanescence that sparks my imagination before I decide to paint. These variations can create powerful juxtapositions ... old and new, light and dark, strong and fragile, life and death. Have you ever noticed an autumn leaf, perhaps ashen and withered, as it falls into the waters of a quiet stream? The cycle of life continues on its path of renewal, and this constant change forces me to seek an answer...in paint. Often the most powerful images are those that are most difficult to see, being small, fleeting or subtle. Charged with these sorts of emotions as I look at something like that leaf, I feel a need to respond. A need to put my feelings about the moment down in paint.
Many of my paintings involve memories, vivid ones that I've carried through the years. Oftentimes I can't work in the field, so I try to remember all that I can while gathering reference material. My memory process involves noting not only the visual details but the sounds, smells, tastes and even my own thoughts at that particular moment. Back in the studio as I begin to paint, these thoughts become crystallized as I try to pull them out and put them in the painting. In my art, it's not just the beauty of the scene I'm after. It's also the emotions conjured be they, joy, wonder, even sadness ... my own state of consciousness....life itself.
Web Site Visitor Comment:
"I found your painting in an image search on Google. Brilliant Work! You captured the essence of The Island. Brought me back. I could hear the ripping of the grass..smell the air..and hear the sound of the old screen door slamming..the sound of the generator..and my Dad in the barn shearing sheep...I greatly miss Mosquito Island..... Thank you." Clare Trevor
Completely self-taught in painting, Kliewer began showing his work at The Pine Tree Shop & Bayview Gallery in Camden, Maine, in the autumn of 1988. The following year, artist Edward Hergelroth saw Kliewer's work for the first time and said, "It's hard to believe that anyone this young and with so little formal training could produce such an incredible sense of drama and atmosphere in his work." Collectors were soon taken with his paintings and the gallery dedicated an entire show to his work at its Portland, Maine location early in 1991. His show of Maine landscapes was a near sellout. In 1995 the Camden gallery offered "Brian Kliewer-A Full Perspective" to its audience and the show nearly sold out on its first weekend! Another successful show followed in 1996. In 2001, Kliewer showed in "Two Views of New England," a two-man show at Mast Cove Galleries in Kennebunkport, Maine. In 2005 the artist was selected by curator, Margaret Bodell, to have his first show in New York City.
COLLECTIONS
Kliewer's work is in many private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe. Included among these: MBNA America (more than 30 paintings), Bank of Ireland, The Fort Worth Star Telegram, Preti Flaherty Beliveau and Pachios LLC, and Pierce Atwood, to name a few.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2008...Solo Show, Mars Hall Gallery, Tenants Harbor, Maine.
2007..."Maine to Manhattan," Mars Hall Gallery, Tenants Harbor, Maine. 2006...Juried Exhibition, Studio Connections - Annual Juried Art Show, MPBN.
2005...New Americana, E3 Gallery, New York, NY.
2005...ARTview 2005, City Museum of Washington, D.C.
2005...Two Man Show, Northeast Fine Art & Design, Northeast Harbor, Maine.
2005...Juried Exhibition, Studio Connections - Annual Juried Art Show, MPBN.
2001...Two Views of New England, Mast Cove Galleries, Kennebunkport, Maine.
1999...Open Studio, Rockland, Maine.
1996...Brian Kliewer: A Passing of Seasons, Bayview Gallery, Camden, Maine.
1995...Brian Kliewer: A Full Perspective, Bayview Gallery, Camden, Maine.
1995...One Man Show, Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, Maine.
1991...One Man Show, Bayview Gallery, Portland, Maine.
BENEFIT AUCTIONS: 2006....MPBN Great TV Auction Juried Exhibition, Portland, Maine. 2005....Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education Art Auction, Rockland, Maine. 2005....MPBN Great TV Auction Juried Exhibition, Portland, Maine. 2004....Maine Artists at Maine Audubon, Falmouth, Maine. 2003....Maine Artists at Maine Audubon, Falmouth, Maine.
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