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Tree Drawings: David Floria Gallery

Reception for the Artist June 29, 6-8 PM

The David Floria Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of St. Louis based artist Andrew Millner entitled “Tree Drawings”. Each piece captures the unique form of a different species of tree, including Dogwood, Japanese Maple, Cottonwood, Magnolia, and new for this show, a small grouping of Aspen trees.

The elegant works were produced by Millner drawing the outline of each image leaf-by-leaf and branch-by-branch using a hand stylus and graphic tablet attached to a computer. The technique both simplifies the image to a mono-chromatic outline and emphasizes the complex botanical line and form that make up the immense living natural wonders.

Millner’s body of tree works are large in scale, ranging up to 80 inches in height or width. The scale creates and imposing impression, but the works are light and mysterious, resulting in an almost ephemeral and abstract impression of the trees represented. The viewer feels as if they are being given an extended glimpse of a living moving tree at a captured moment that allows calm contemplation.

Andrew Millner earned his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Michigan in 1989. He had his first solo show in 1992, and has exhibited widely around the west and mid-west over the past fifteen years.

The public is invited to view “Andrew Millner – Tree Drawings” at the David Floria Gallery, located at 525 E Cooper, Upper Level, between Friday June 15- Saturday June 30, 2007. There will be a reception for the artist on June 29, 6-8 PM.