North Fork Artists Michael Killelea and Max Moran Christen Jamesport Manor Inn’s Rosalie Dimon Gallery

Jamesport, NY (Monday June 5, 2007) –The long anticipated reopening of the Jamesport Manor Inn will delight locals and visitors with the addition of the new Rosalie Dimon Gallery. North Fork artist Max Moran will open the Gallery with a collection of his North Fork paintings to be on display through August 2007. An opening reception highlighting new works will be held on

Sunday Afternoon, June 24, 2007 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm.

As a former resident of Manor Lane, Moran will return with observations and his conversations with the landscape. “With so much agenda-driven art, I’ve decided to give landscapes an agenda with this new group of paintings. I’ve observed, over my 30 years as a painter, how often artists who once started with landscape paintings abandoned and then returned to the subject later in life. I have never left the landscape; it continuously gives a wealth of information and inspiration through the medium of paint and canvas. These new paintings, some of which were executed early this spring, will continue my tradition influenced by the 19th and 20th century American Masters. Their paintings still move and profoundly affect my work today. A landscape painting can quietly and sometimes profoundly remind us who we are as temporary custodians of the land.” Moran can often be seen in the fields of Manor Lane and the North Fork “chasing clouds” and capturing them in his paintings. After an encounter with one of Moran’s Manor Lane canvasses, Suffolk County Poet Laureate George Wallace penned the poem “State of the Sky.”

Moran has been a member of the East End Arts Council for many years and would like to thank them for arranging this exhibition at the newly restored Manor Inn at the Rosalie Dimon Gallery. Mr. Moran’s work can be seen online at www.maxmoran.com.

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