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Located on the lower level of the St. Cecilia Music Center building, the Terryberry Gallery showcases area artists throughout the year, making it a unique and beautiful space for hosting small receptions or as an overflow space when renting the Mika Music Library.
For room rental availability for your special event, please contact Event & Facility Director Carla Messing at 616.459.2224 (ext 204) or carla@scmcgr.org.
LEON LOU | Models & Fictions: Recent Paintings
LEON LOU
I was born and raised in Shanghai, China. When I was a teenager, I dreamed of becoming an artist and spent many after-school hours on drawing and painting under the tutelage of art teachers who were influenced by European traditions. After teaching psychology at Grand Valley State University for 24 years, I am now retired to become a full-time painter. As a cognitive psychologist, I have conducted well-cited original studies on human visual perception and specifically on how artists see things they depict differently from non-artists. As a largely self-taught artist, I have focused on developing a style in rendering my perceptions of live models and real scenes that is both expressive and realistic.
Dilligent, Oil
I love to depict strong and interesting forms of human face and figure, and I like mood-suggesting colors. I strive to be consistent by responsive drawings in painting with various mediums, including watercolor, gouache, oil and wax-based pastel (Caran d'Ache). A highlight of my accomplishments in recent years was my 2022 ArtPrize entry in the "time-based" category, which involved drawing ArtPrize visitors daily during a 3 week period at the G.R. Ford Presidential Museum with each drawing timed for 10 minutes. My effort led to over 300 drawings of ArtPrize visitors. More than a series of portraits of isolated individuals, it portrays people who might otherwise never meet in life connecting with each other through spontaneous gestures in the pictorial space I created, manifesting the themes of "Be part of the picture" and " Unity through diversity".
Michael, Watercolor
ARTIST RECEPTION
Friday, September 6 | 5-7pm
Throughout the artist's residency, select pieces are available for purchase through St. Cecilia Music Center. Contact Event + Facility Director Carla Messing at carla@scmcgr.org for more information.
