Announcement of member's exhibit

Greetings! 

On behalf of Northern Trust, I am pleased to invite you and a guest to join us for our Spring 2011 Art Reception, featuring Painter Gerry Grout and Sculptor Harvey Bream. 

Our RSVP deadline is Thursday, April 7.  Kindly reply to RSVP-Inbox@ntrs.com if you wish to attend.  You have also been mailed an invitation.

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Northern Trust

cordially invites you and a guest to the opening of

SPRING ART SHOW

featuring

SCULPTURE BY HARVEY BREAM
PAINTINGS BY GERRY GROUT

Thursday, April 14, 2011

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served

On-site parking is available

Northern Trust

2398 East Camelback Road

First Floor Bank Lobby

Phoenix, Arizona

Kindly RSVP by Thursday, April 7, to 602-468-2679 or RSVP-Inbox@ntrs.com

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HARVEY BREAM: SCULPTOR

Harvey Bream was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in architecture and minors in speech and art. He spent 38 years as an architect designing and building custom homes in the Greater St. Paul area. When he retired at age 58, he elected to turn his architectural focus to the pursuit of art, working primarily in stone and steel. After 3 years of being mentored in a private studio by Karen Sontag, Minneapolis stone sculptor, he opened his own studio in St. Paul, MN. He continued carving stone and working with other materials including steel, wood, and paints.

When he moved to Arizona in 1995, he enrolled in the Art Department of the Scottsdale Community College and has been working there for over 15 years. He has combined metal and stone in his sculpture and has found the possibilities to be endless.

Harvey and his wife live in Scottsdale and have a summer home in Pine. He has working studios at both homes. His work is on display at his Scottsdale home, studio, and sculpture garden. He is a juried member of the Arizona Artists Guild and the Sonoran Art League, and he has shown his work in various public shows and numerous other shows and exhibits including Shemer Art Center and Sky Harbor Airport Terminal 4 Gallery Exhibit.

GERRY GROUT: PAINTER

"My art is born more from a sense of touch than from sight. Drawing from a model or object before me is like climbing a mountain as opposed to viewing it from afar ....I need to feel I have touched the solid form."

A native of Arizona, Gerry Grout came from a ranching family that moved to the West in 1909. Interested in the visual arts since childhood, she earned her first prize at the age of 1 0 with a painting of sunlight highlighting Arizona boulders. She is motivated by the solidity and linear quality of natural forms and prefers to paint in series. She is currently concentrating on her fifth series that involves flora and plant forms.

Gerry is a life member of the Arizona Artists Guild Hall of Fame and a juried member of the Arizona Watercolor Association. She has won jurors' Best of Show and numerous choice awards. She is the author of a book titled Linear Images of the Living Figure. The book includes 60 drawings of nude figures, many of which are used as references for figurative paintings. Her images have been featured in many national art publications.

Gerry has served as a docent and member of the Director's Circle at the Phoenix Art Museum. She was a Board and Founders Circle Member of the West Valley Fine Arts Council and Chairman of the Arizona Artists Guild's Scholarship Program. Gerry provides an annual scholarship to encourage the continuation of college art students. She was a volunteer art teacher at a Juvenile Correctional Center, a member of the West Valley Arts Council Building Campaign and a member of the recently completed Arizona Artist Guild building project.

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