Vincent Xeus was born in China and began his artistic training during childhood. He has since become a torrential force on thei nternational art scene. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, his work embraces yet challenges the traditions of painting through an exploration of contemporary practices and observations. Xeus reminds the audience to continually adjust perceptions by providing alternative ways of seeing the temporal world. His prodigious artistic output has earned him international acclaim, and his work is exhibited inrenowned public and private collections in museums and galleries worldwide.

Xeus currently lives and creates in Manhattan and Napa Valley,California. He served as a Director on the Board of the Arts Council Napa Valley, and Arts Commissioner in Yountville, California. The artist holds a high honors bachelor‘s degree in architecture from University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

www.VincentXeus.com

Shelley Farmer is Director of Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York.  This is her 20th year with the firm. She began her tenure at Hirschl & Adler Galleries in the Print Department and has served as Director of its Modern and Contemporary arm since 2008.

Shelley’s primary areas of focus are Modern, Postwar and Contemporary American Art.  Her expertise in paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture also includes historical material, as Hirschl & Adler has been specializing in American and European art of all periods throughout its 65-year history.

Under her direction, Hirschl & Adler Modern represents a select group of established and mid-career contemporary artists as well as Estates, mounting up to eight exhibitions a year while participating in top-level International art fairs including Art Basel Miami Beach, TEFAF New York, The ADAA Art Show, and others.

She works with private collectors, consultants, institutions, and museums with the goal of placing works in collections both large and small.  Her clients range from first-time buyers to seasoned private collectors and major American and international museums.

Shelley graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College with departmental honors in Art History and American Studies.  Her graduate work includes the Sotheby’s Art Institute in New York and the NYU Appraisal Studies Program.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

• Acadia Foundation, Northeast Harbor, ME
• Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo TX
• Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson AZ
• Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AR
• Arnot Art Museum, Elmira NY
• Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford PA 
• Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH
• Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs CO
• Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder CO
• Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington DE
• Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
• Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Evansville IN
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco CA
• Flint Institute of Arts, Flint MI
• Foothills Art Center, Golden CO
• Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City MO  
• Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art, Denver CO
• Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, Longmont CO
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
• Mint Museum, Charlotte NC
• Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe NM
• New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain CT
• Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa OK
• Reading Public Museum, Reading PA
• San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego CA
• San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA
• Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield OH
• University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY
• Whitney Western Art Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody WY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015
Quidley and Company, Nantucket MA, “Lemon Fall”

2012
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Outside the Box”

2010
Pismo Fine Art, Aspen CO

2007
J. Cacciola Gallery, exhibition catalog, New York  

2005
Sardella Fine Art, Aspen CO

2004
Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA, “Still Lifes With Magic and Mystery”
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, exhibition catalog, San Francisco CA

2003
Carson Gallery, Denver CO

2002
Susan Duval Gallery, exhibition catalog, Aspen CO

1999
Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO

1998
Carson Gallery, Denver CO, “Still Life”
Philbrook Museum of Art , Tulsa OK,
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville IN, “Still Life Paintings”

1996
Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO, “New Work”

1993
Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO, “Illusions of Reality”

1990
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley CO, “Drawings and Paintings of Scott Fraser”

1989
Carson Gallery,  Denver CO, “Ink Washes”

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

• Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston TX, “Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: 
• The Frank and Michelle Hevrdjes Collection.”

2016

• Deleware Art Museum, Wilmington DE, “Truth & Vision: 21st 
• Century Realism” Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville DE, “Behind the Easel: 
• The Unique Voices of Twenty Contemporary Representational Painters”

2015

• Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada CO, “Conscious and Unconscious: 
• Subjects of the Real and Surreal”
• National Western Complex Denver CO, “Coors Western Art Exhibit”

2014

• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Celebrate Summer”
• Southport Galleries, Southport CT, “Not So Still Life”
• National Western Complex, Denver CO, “Coors Western Art Exhibit”

2013

• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Fluid”
• Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, “Evansville Collects: Contemporary American Still Life”

2012

• J. Cacciola Gallery, New York NY, “Things Are Not What They Seem”

2011

• Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson AZ, “Vanishing Circles”
• New York Academy of Art, New York NY, “Peterson Collection”

2010

• Imago Gallery, Palm Desert CA, “Realism in Diverse Media”
• Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford PA, “Reality Check: Contemporary American 
• Trompe L’oeil Painting”

2009 

• The Citadelle Art Foundation, Amarillo TX, “Super Real”
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “On Paper”
• Gallery 1261, Denver CO, “Beyond The Object Project”

2008

• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Winter Haiku”
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA , “Beyond Representation”

2007

• Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science, Evansville IN; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville SC; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa OK; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chatanooga TN; Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood CO, “The Object Project”
• Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, Longmont CO, “Fraser, Switzer, Stoner: Still Life”
• Foothills Art Center, Golden CO, “REALationships: Works of Surreal Inspiration”
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, exhibition catalog, San Francisco CA, “Eighth Annual Realism Invitational”

2006

• Flint Institute of Art, Flint MI, “To Be or Not to Be, 400 Years of Vanitas Paintings”
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Seventh Annual Realism Invitational”

2005

• C T E Gallery, Charlotte, NC, “House and Home”

2004

• Mint Museum, Charlotte NC, “Revelation”
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Sixth Annual Realism Invitational”

2003

• Arnot Art Museum, exhitibition catalog, Elmira NY, “Re-representing Representation VI”
• Foothills Art Center, Golden CO, “35th Anniversary Exhibition”
• Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo CO, “Magic Realism “
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Fifth Annual Realism Invitational”

2002

• Foothills Art Center, Golden CO, “Random Acts of Beauty”
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Fourth Annual Realism Invitational”
• J. Cacciola Gallery and Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, “Gallery to Gallery”

2001

• J. Cacciola Galleries, New York NY, “Form and Figure”
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Third Annual Realism Invitational”

2000

• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Second Annual Realism Invitational “
• J. Cacciola Galleries, New York NY, “Introductions”

1999

• Arnot Art Museum, exhibition catalog, Elmira NY, “Re-representing Representation IV”
• John Pence Gallery, exhibition catalog, San Francisco CA, “Drawings”
• Memorial Art Gallery – University of Rochester, Rochester NY, “New Realism for a New Millennium”
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco CA, “First Annual Realism Invitational”
• John Pence Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Trompe l’Oeil:  Art and Illusion “

1998

• Amarillo Museum of Art , Amarillo TX, “Realism ’98”
• John Pence Gallery, San Francisco CA, “Still Lifes and Florals”
• M A Doran Gallery, Tulsa OK, “American Still Life Paintings”

1997

• Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro KY, “Shared Treasures”
• Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO, “Patrick Hughes, Scott Fraser”

1996:

• Denver Art Museum, Denver CO, “Colorado Artists: Recent Acquisitions”
• Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville IN, “Arranging Things: Contemporary American and European Still Life”
• Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe NM, “Realism ’96 “
• John Pence Gallery, San Francisco CA, “American Realism: Past and Present — 1856-1996”

1995

• Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe NM, “Realism ’95 – Vision and Poetry”

1994

• Gerold Wunderlich Gallery, New York NY, “Contemporary Realism”
• Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA, “Slice of Life: Contemporary Still Life”
• Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills CA, “Contemporary Perspectives II”
• Susan Duval Gallery, Aspen CO, “Realism in Perspective”
• Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe NM, “Realism ‘94”
• Gerold Wunderlich Gallery, New York NY, “An Original Idea”
• Sherry French Gallery, New York NY, “Flowers in February”

1993

•  Gerold Wunderlich Gallery, New York NY, “Contemporary Realism “
• DAM Close Range Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO, “Much Ado about Something”
• Gerald Peters Gallery, exhibition catalog, Santa Fe NM, “Still Life 1963 – 1993”

1992

• The Real Thing – Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills CA, “The Real Thing”

1991

• Coe Kerr Gallery, New York NY, “Contemporary Still Life Painting”
• Flint Institute of Arts, Flint MI, exhibition catalog, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples FL; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN, “New Horizons in American Realism”

1990

• National Academy of Design, New York NY, “165th Annual Exhibition”
• Gerold Wunderlich Gallery,New York NY, “1900 to Now”
• Gerold Wunderich Gallery, New York NY, ” Contemporary Realism”
• Boulder CO, “Rocky Mountain National Park 75th Anniversary Exhibition”

1989

• The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, “Colorado Artists at the Kennedy Center”
• Grand Central Art Galleries, exhibition catalog, New York NY, “The Food Show: Still Lifes by Sixty Six American Artists”
• Grand Central Art Galleries, New York NY, “New Work”

1988

• Sherry French Gallery, New York NY; National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC; Robertson Center for the Arts, Binghamton NJ; Evansville Museum of Arts, Evansville IN; Noyes Museum, Oceanville NY, “Trains and Planes: The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting”
• Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH, “52nd Annual National Midyear Show”

1985

• Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington DC; Alexandria Courthouse, Alexandria VA; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids IA; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City UT; Minnesota Museum of Art, exhibition catalog, “Art and the Law”

1984

• Minnesota Museum of Art, exhibition catalog, St. Paul MN; The Albany Museum of Art, Albany GA; South Texas College of Law, Houston TX; The Canton OH Art Institute, “Art and the Law”

BOOKS, ARTICLES AND EXHIBITION CATALOGS

• Davis, Rodney. The Art of Vanitas: 2016.
• Gillies, Max. “Brand-New Masterworks.” Fine Art Connoisseur, July/August, 2015.
• Sherwood, Clint. “On Lemons and Art History.” Artists on Art, Summer, 2015.
• Trippi, Peter. “Celebrating America’s Great Collectors.” Fine Art Connoisseur, February, 2015.
• Jackson, Robert C. Behind the Easel. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2014. 
• Rooney, E. Ashley. Artists Homes and Studios: Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2014.
• Carstens, Rosemary. “Still Life as Story.” Western Art & Architecture, December 2014.
• Gangelhoff, Bonnie. “A Still Life Master for Our Time.” SouthwestArt, April 2013.
• Baker, Kenneth. “Outside the Box.” ARTNews, April 2013.
• Ocvirk, Otto G, et al. Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice. Twelfth Edition. New York: McGraw Hill, 2012.
• Sozanski, Edward J. “Trompe L’oeil as More Than Visual Trickery.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 17, 2011.
• Brewer, Linda M. Vanishing Circles: Portraits of Disappearing Wildlife of the Sonoran Desert Region. Tucson: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, 2010. 
• Grant, Daniel. The Business of Being an Artist. New York: Allworth Press,  2010.
• Macmillan, Kyle. “Contemporary Realisms Day in the Sun.” The Denver Post, March 13, 2009.
• Stork, David G. et al. “Finding Intrinsic and Extrinsic Viewing Parameters from a Single Realist Painting.” Proceedings of Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP) http://www.diatrope.com/stork/JordanetalCAIP09.pdf ,2009.
• Aristides, Juliette. Classical Painting Atelier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2008.
• Doherty, M. Stephen. Object Project: Five Objects, Fifteen Artists. Exhibition catalog, Evansville, IN: Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, 2007.
• Kelly III, Raymond J. To Be, or Not To Be: Four Hundred Years of Vanitas Painting. Flint: Flint Institute of Arts, 2006.
• Contemporary Realism Collection, Volume II.  Exhibition catalog, Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 2006.
• Napier, Bill. Still Lifes With Magic and Mystery. Exhibition catalog, Seattle, WA: Frye Art Museum, 2004.
• Baker, Kenneth. “Bubbling Over With Talent.” ARTnews, September 2004
• Gangelhoff, Bonnie. “Mystery & Resonance.” SouthwestArt, March 2000.
• Mason, Marilynne. Still Life. Exhibition catalog, Tulsa, OK:  Philbrook Museum of Art. Evansville, Indiana: Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1998.
• Gomez, Edward. “Past is Present.” Art & Antiques, December 1998.
• “The Unconventional Still Life.” The Daily Oklahoman, February 12, 1998.
• Watts, James D., ”Magical, Mundane Combine in Scott Fraser’s Paintings.” Tulsa World, 
• January 16, 1998.
•   “Realism: The New Hip?” ARTnews, February 1997.
• Pulkka, Wesley. “Realism ’95: Rare Glimpse into Masters’ Works.” Albuquerque Journal, October 29, 1995.
• Mason, Marilynne.”Realism with a Hint of Mystery.” The Christian Science Monitor, August 30,  11993.
• LeClair, Charles. Color in Contemporary Painting. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1991.
• Wolff, Theodore. The Christian Science Monitor, June 13, 1989.
•  “Artists Worth Watching.” ARTnews, October 1989.
• The West Collection. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1986.
• Elze, Peter (ed.). Atelierhaus Worspwede 1983, 1984, 1985.. Worpswede: Atelierhous Worpswede, 1985.