The International Guild of Realism

''The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century" International Guild of Realism

“The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century” is the first traveling museum show of this century to not only look at the state of
Realism painting around the world, but to also compare those artworks with their historical predecessors.

Fifty-six artists are represented with sixty-five paintings from the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Korea, Russia, France,
Iceland, Romania, Norway, and Finland in this juried show organized by the International Guild of Realism.
The exhibition looks at such media as oil, acrylic, egg tempera, graphite and colored pencil to give
viewers a snapshot of how Realism artists are approaching their art form today.

Each artist was asked to identify one historical painting that can be used by museum attendees to compare and
contrast today’s work with the pioneers of this art technique. The artists cited such predecessors as Ingres,
Da Vinci, Dürer, Vermeer, Harnett, Constable, Memling and Dali as starting points for their current work as they explored still life,
landscape, figurative and even trompe l’oeil art forms. In some cases, the contrast between the old and the new is startling;
in other cases, one can almost see the apprentice soaking up the Old Master’s techniques for modern visuals.

Each of the sixty-five contemporary paintings can be directly compared with an historic Realism painting.
Each wall label features an image of a related historic painting.

Albino Hinojosa	Don Clapper	Janet Weaver	Mark Thompson
Andrew Denman	Donelli DiMaria	Jean Miller Harding	Oleg Radvan
Anne Kullaf	Donna Surprenant	Jorge-Alberto	Pamela Carroll
Arlene Steinberg	Ellen Catherwood	Karl Jóhann Jónsson	Rik Viola
Arleta Pech	Frances Poole	Ken Fuller	Robert Aragon
Bernard Scholl	Frederick Denys	Kiche	Scott Royston
Bonnie Hamlin	Gail Gash Taylor	Kimberly Merrill	Sheila Cantrell
Bryce Cameron Liston	Gary J. Hernandez	Kolbjørn Håseth	Tom Cardamone
Camille Engel	George A. Gonzalez	Kory Fluckiger	Vadim Dolgov
Cindy Revell	Gerald Schwartz	Larry Charles	Vala Ola
Colin Poole	Ginger Bowen	Laura den Hertog	Véronique Molinier
Damon Denys	Grace Kim	Lee Alban	Victor Leger
David Camp	Isabelle du Toit (Rouaud)	Linda Lucas Hardy	William Yenkevich
Debra Teare	Jane Jones	Lorena Kloosterboer	Zamfir Dumitrescu