ARTIST’S LANDSCAPES PART OF EXHIBITION
Corey Albert
“El Segundo Herald”
El Segundo, California
March 16, 1989, p.6

After spending 18 months studying art in Spain, artist Georges Le Chevallier is displaying some of what he learned at an art exhibit currently taking place in San Pedro.

The exhibit, entitled “Visions of Spain,” features numerous paintings and drawings of landscapes encountered by the 23-year-old El Segundo artist during the period he studied there.

“I usually have a tendency to do abstract work,” Le Chevallier said, “but the different landscapes I saw in Spain attracted me a lot.”

Le Chevallier was born in Paris and grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to El Segundo in 1979. He graduated from El Segundo High School in 1984 and went on to El Camino Community College where he studied fine arts.

After graduating from El Camino, he decided that traveling to Europe would prove more beneficial to his career than immediately transferring to a four-year school. Le Chevallier gained acceptance to the Fine Arts Academy of San Fernando in the Complutense University of Madrid where he studied painting and drawing as well as ultimately participating in a number of Spanish exhibitions.

Although he has also had a number of smaller exhibitions here, Le Chevallier says that his current display is by far the most significant he has had since returning to the United States. It is particularly significant, he explained, because the artist sharing the gallery is Bill Hayner, a well-known abstract painter.

Le Chevallier hopes to have several more displays over the next two years while he goes to Cal State University, Long Beach and pursues a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. By the time he graduates, he wants to have had several smaller displays.

“Hopefully, I’ll be well known by then so I can have major exhibitions in well-known galleries,” he said, explaining that he has begun working on a new series of paintings that will attempt to combine the innovation and freedom of American art with the classicism of the art he was exposed to in Spain.

Le Chevallier’s series of Spanish landscapes currently on display is being exhibited through March 29 at the distinctive Edge Gallery, 29050 S. Western Ave., Suite 113 and is free to the general public. A special reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m.