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The Village Gallerie, 1870 Ashwood Circle, Ft Wright KY 41011

A Show of Art by Tom Lohre

May 12th to June 9th, 2006

The Story:

            Tom Lohre, fine artist and native of Park Hills, Kentucky will show a collection of recent and earlier urban landscapes from Nantucket, Atlanta, New York City, Harrisburg, Seattle, Greenville SC, Cincinnati and Covington. He melds his formidable portrait skills with his accomplished “en plein air” manner.

For thirty years he has painted formal portraits that sometimes take upwards of a year to paint. The life size portraits are masterpieces of modern romanticism. The surface of the canvas is amazing to look at for Tom uses the white of the canvas and transparent tints to create lifelike form. Tom is obsessed with the surface of the painting. He emulates the great master figurative painter William Adolph Bouguereau. Tom started his “en plein air” work, artwork painted outdoors, after mastering his portrait manner. He honed his skills by painting outdoors everyday. He would paint scenes devoid of people even though they would be in very popular locations.

Now Tom incorporates well wrought figures into his “en plein air” work. The figures and composition are worked up in the studio and painted on location. Nature is Tom’s inspiration. He will take numerous photographs of people milling about and use these images as stepping off points for the figures he creates in his canvases. The ten inch high figures in the new work can be portraits. The small figure in the painting can look just like a person but the size prevents it from becoming to ponderous.


The Balcony, Ludlow Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio, 8" x 10", Oil on board, April 2006

“The Balcony” shows the second floor apartment above the shop “Spiral Light.” Tom was working on another painting when he notices this woman planting flowers. The ornate railing was always a favorite view and the greening of the balcony gives direction to the painting. This painting was done just inches from speeding cars.


Ludlow Avenue Bulletin Board, 12" x 16", oil on board, April, 2006

Tom considers this a pivotal painting in his “Urban Landscape Series.” By chance he saw the two women just as they are clothed and depicted. The scene is simplified of additional objects like bikes, more planters, signs, etc. but the color and overall effect gave Tom a euphoric feeling he had never experienced. It was as if the feeling a great painting give the viewer was continually experienced by Tom as he worked on the painting. He worked on this painting from Bender Optical. The quite warm office was an excellent place to work.


Ludlow Garage in Snow, 12" x 16", oil on board, March, 2006

Tom worked from inside the barber shop to paint this work. The woman was seen walking by. You can imagine the spring snow being here on day and gone the next. You can still see the empty parking spaces from the morning rush hour.


Esquire Theatre in Winter, 16" x 12", oil on board, March, 2006

This work painted from inside Dan's Clifton Barbers. It had snowed a few days earlier and Tom took advantage of the memory.


Telford Avenue with Snow, 16" x 12", oil on board, March, 2006


Sitwell's Coffee House Interior, 20" x 16", oil on board, March, 2006


Perry Street, NYC, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, September 2006


Old Ludlow Avenue Bulletin Board, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, September 21, 2005


Fountain Square with Woman, 8" x 10", Oil on canvas, September 2005

This work was composed in the studio. The idea for the girl in the foreground was adapted from a photo Tom took the day before while working on Fountain Square.


Katrina Relief Fund, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, October 2005

This work painted in Hyde Park, one of Cincinnati’s Villages. The idea for the girl came from a street fund raising effort on Ludlow Avenue. Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music organized a New Orleans Style Band to set up on the street while other students solicited money from the passing cars.


Bengal, Paul Brown Stadium, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, November 2005

This work painted outside of Paul Brown Stadium during the week before the game. During the game Tom discovered that the whole area if crowded with smokers. This work painted outside of Paul Brown Stadium during the week before the game. During the game Tom discovered that the whole area if crowded with smokers. While there painting, a TV station came down to do a feature on the new quarter back Carson Palmer, Tom picked up his guitar, which he always carries with him in the field and played a rallying song about Carson being a god sent to lead the Bengals to a Super Bowl for the reporter and his cameraman. It did not make the news.


Hyde Park Fountain, Cincinnati, Ohio, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, October 2005

A detail of the Kilgore Fountain is shown. The girl in the painting was inspired by a shop clerk who walked the shop dog frequently during the time Tom was working on the small painting.


Ludlow Avenue Bulletin Board, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, September 2005

Inspired from a snap shot Tom took on the street the day before. The woman was very rotund and the dog had pink spray paint on its coat.  In the background is the perennial bicycle with the flower baskets, anchored to the bike hitching post complete with flat tire.


New York City Clean, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, October 2005

“New York City Clean” was also painted from life on the streets of New York City. The painting has quite a lot of street dirt on it from Tom’s sitting so close to Sixth Avenue. The funniest thing that happened to Tom was a man across the street dressed up in his Sunday’s finest light gray suit, pastel blue shirt and light gray shoes. He stood in front a bus across the square and yelled at it for a good half hour. He was berating the bus for being parked there. Did not the bus know that the square was called Father Demos Square because a church burned down on this spot and the city would not allow the church to be rebuilt so the spot was made into a square for the sole purpose of remembering the denial of the city? He constantly said that the square was only to be used for sitting and no bus parking was allowed. After the man got tired of talking to the bus he came over to where Tom was working and laid into him. There was to be no tripods set up. Tom was flabbergasted by the affront. Never had he experienced such a tongue lashing. Since Tom had his guitar on his lap he was also told to take that guitar over to Washington Square, there was to be no guitar playing on Father Demos Square. Tom finally had to tell the man that he was sorry but the man would have to get the police to have him removed. After a good long time the man finally walked off. Later while Tom was talking to a local bench sitter he learned that the man had been diligently performing his job for several years. He never returned.  Father Demos’s church was rebuilt across the corner into the magnificent “Our Lady of Pompeii.”


Esquire Girls II, 8" x 10", Oil on canvas, 2005


 

Sitwell Woman checking her cell phone holding an ice cream cone on Ludlow Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio by Tom Lohre.

Sitwell Girl II, 8" x 10", Oil on canvas, 2005


Museum Center, 8" x 10", oil on canvas, 2002


Cincinnati Girl, 12" x 16", oil on canvas, 2000



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