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ill titleNAL Artist's Galleries - Gary Wick

Media: Soft Pastels
 website: http://www.wickartwork.com
email: gary.wick@att.net

Gary Wick is a Chicago born artist who currently works with soft pastels. He is primarily a studio painter preferring to work from photographs he shoots. He does commission work from client's photographs only if he likes the subject matter. His ability to create realistic paintings from photographs is a testimony to his close relationship with both media.
 

Gary has been involved with art since childhood and basically is self taught. He has studied with professional artists over the years and has taken classes at the Art Institute of Chicago as a youngster when he was recommended by one of his elementary school teachers and again after he returned from Vietnam for a period of time. He is a member of various art organizations and the La Grange Art League where he teaches pastels and does workshops.

His basis for painting is "paint what you see," which results in realistic art. Gary expresses his philosophy stating, "I prefer to document what I see rather than slap paint on a canvas abstractly. I'm a realist and I see life and art in that light."

In 1998 Gary became a displaying art member at The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum which is permanently located in Chicago, Illinois. This was a proud moment in his life. With the paintings he has hanging in the museum, he feels he has received the acknowledgement he has needed since he returned from Vietnam in 1968 and that act has brought closure to war for him. His paintings do not show the blood and guts of war but a view of humans caught up in their thoughts, thinking of today, or tomorrow, or of home.

"Fine art, in my belief, does not have to match the color of a wall or the furniture in a room, it should be something that you enjoy each time you look at it. Think about what you see around a painting when you are really absorbed into a painting. I hope it isn't the furniture. "Great art can hang anywhere. Enjoy what you see."

Education
University of Illinois, Navy Pier Chicago Branch (Architecture)
Drisi Academy Glenwood, Illinois (Oil Portraiture)
Pastel Workshops Here and in Europe

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