“Pictorial to Abstract”
The Art of ALEX McKibbin
PRESENTED BY THE MANAYUNK-ROXBOROUGH ART CENTER
419 Green Lane (rear), Philadelphia, PA 19128
OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2019 from 12 NOON to 3:00 PM
SHOW CONTINUES: APRIL 13TH AND 14TH, 2019, FROM 11AM TO 3 PM
Admission is free, $5.00 donation encouraged.
For the month of May, the exhibit will be available for public viewing Monday through Friday 10 AM to 6 PM at
Roxborough Development Corporation (RDC), 6111 Ridge Avenue, Roxborough, PA 19128.
Public parking is available nearby.
“Pictorial to Abstract” features artist ALEX MCKIBBIN’S watercolors, oil paintings and drawings, along with artwork in various media by members of the Manayunk-Roxborough Artists’ Co-Op, for three days only in the gallery of the Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center (MRAC), 419 Green Lane (rear), Philadelphia, PA 19128.
Alex McKibbin has been painting since 1957 and his works can be found in 32 public collections and over 60 corporate collections to date. He holds an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, and a B. F. A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
McKibbin's style is known for its spontaneity, brilliance and figurative draftsmanship in abstract forms. His prolific body of work has been reproduced in 40 books, magazines and CD covers, featured in over 200 exhibitions, 80 of which have been national and regional juried shows. He has also won numerous awards throughout his career, which includes three decades of teaching art history, painting and drawing at the collegiate level both here in the United States and in Greece and Mexico. He currently works out of his studio in Bensalem, PA. Of his work, Alex says, “My brush seems guided less directly by my eye than by a kind of motor empathy with the rhythms, weight, and tensions of the elements of the landscape before me.”
