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Praha

March 16, 2006- April 20, 2006

Glen Hansen

Fischbach Gallery

210 11th Ave

The Fischbach Gallery is pleased to present Praha, an exhibition of recent paintings by Glen Hansen, opening March 16 and continuing through April 15, 2006.

Working in a precisionist style, the paintings of Glen Hansen often capture architectural obscurities. Combining the elements of man and nature with the skilled hand of a surgeon, Hansen creates the sublime from the mundane. Hansen has envisioned paintings of skies, street clocks, and architectural details.

Praha, a series of paintings, represents the artist�s fascination with Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, where he spent extensive time studying the city�s historical structures. Making multiple observational trips, Hansen sketched and photographed this historical city and observed its unique quality of light and timeless beauty. The subject of several paintings is the Orloj, the city�s medieval astronomical clock. Using dramatic shadows, angles, and color, these paintings echo the power and magic of this ancient structure, which has kept accurate time for over six centuries. Praha is the exciting juxtaposition of the medieval mystery of Fourteenth Century Prague, observed and interpreted in a contemporary style.

Glen Hansen was born in Long Island in 1961. He earned a B.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts in 1985. This is his sixth solo exhibition at the Fischbach Gallery. His paintings are in numerous collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He currently resides in New York City.

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