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P Meyer Gallery presents an exhibition of prints, drawings and sculpture by two San Diego artists, Joe Nyiri and the late Barney M. Reid. The exhibition will be available for viewing beginning Friday, July 10th, 2009 through Saturday, August 22, 2009.
The opening reception for this significant exhibition will take place on Friday, July 10, 2009, from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m., in conjunction with Kettner Nights presented by galleries and artists of the art and design district of north Little Italy (NoLI).
This exhibition, the first for Reid since 1992, will consist primarily of prints (lithographs, linocuts and etchings), complimented by drawings and sculptures. Many of Reid’s featured prints are from the 1930’s and 40’s, created while he was working on his master’s thesis at the University of Iowa, under the tutelage of Grant Wood and Fletcher Martin. His works from 1946-1949 were created when he was teaching at Arizona State University (ASU). Barney Reid lived in San Diego from 1950 until his death in 1992.
Joe Nyiri was born in Racine, Wisconsin. He received a bachelor of science degree in art (cum laude) and a master of science degree in art and art education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He continued his art education with advanced studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, San Diego State University, University of California at San Diego and the United States International University, San Diego.
Joe Nyiri has had thirty one-person exhibitions in the United States and sixteen two-person exhibitions in the United Stated and Mexico. He has been included in over 360 juried and invitational exhibitions from 1960 – 2009 and has work in over 280 public and private art collections.
Joe Nyiri on Barney Reid: “I met Barney Reid in 1963 when I was voted into the Allied Craftsman organization of San Diego County. Barney’s artwork I found was capital, excellent craftsmanship, originality of ideas, prodigiously rich in detail and color and overall technically inventive.
I worked with Barney during the summer of 1963 at the Navy Electronics Laboratory (N.E.L) in Point Loma as an illustrator and graphics designer. We collaborated on ideas and projects and we traded works of art. He was a brilliant man in so many ways. He was a standard in the San Diego art world until his death. “
Mark Lugo, San Diego Public Library Art Director / Curator, on Joe Nyiri: “Joe Nyiri is one of the most creative and energetic forces in San Diego art scene. Over the years, he has produced an enormously rich, diverse, and inventive body of work.”
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