Ian Tornay-Landscapes

Bowery Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new landscape paintings by Ian Tornay. For his ninth exhibition at the Bowery Gallery, Tornay paints exclusively “au plein-air” in eastern Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Tornay’s broad, active brushwork captures the elemental forces of nature as wind, water, foliage and sky transpose to rhythmic movements in color. His romantic approach brings the viewer in direct contact to nature’s monumental or intimate aspects. In Southern Pennsylvania, he works in local parks such as the Pennypack Preserve or at Twining Park where an abandoned golf course has been reclaimed by nature. Surrounded by suburban sprawl, many of the locales demonstrate nature’s resilience even in populated areas. These scenes feature the wooded streams and gentle rolling hills common to Southern Pennsylvania. In North Eastern Pennsylvania’s rural farmland, the deeper vistas are composed of rugged, hilly terrain of fields and woodlands, still majestic despite man’s intrusion.

Born in 1965, Tornay received an undergraduate degree in architecture from the Cooper Union in 1989 and a graduate degree in Fine Art from Queens College in 1995. Tornay currently teaches architecture and interior design at Community College of Philadelphia and Northampton Community College. He has exhibited regionally and nationally, including a recent solo exhibition at the Whitemarsh Gallery in Ft. Washington PA. His exhibitions have been reviewed by the New Republic, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chestnut Hill local.