FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

GALLERY at SECOND OCTOBER 18 ART RECEPTION: RANDY MCCURDY and JO ANN NEAL

HARRISBURG: Gallery at Second, a fine art gallery located at 608 North Second Street, Harrisburg, is scheduled to host a reception for its October-November exhibitions on Friday, October 18 from 6 to 9 p.m. The gallery is hosting these two independent exhibitions of these artists from October 17 through December 7, 2013.

Pennsylvania artist Randy McCurdy is a romantic, realist salon painter and is best known for his calming pastoral landscape paintings inspired by the beauty and serenity of the central Pennsylvania wetland and forest regions of Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill and Berks counties. As a Lebanon County native, he, very early in life, learned to love and respect the land. As he states, “My life’s work is, and always has been, to capture in paint the bounty that surrounds us.” He is studied in the traditional painting techniques of the Brandywine and Hudson River schools of American painting and attributes his art education to his brother, the late Allen McCurdy, a fine art educator and American painter of the New Hope Pennsylvania colony of painters. Randy has received national recognition as an American tonalist painter. As McCurdy emphasizes, “It is my hope, that if just one person is touched by my images, then my course as a painter has been run to it's finish.”

After early retirement due to the onset of debilitating rheumatoid arthritis, Harrisburg-based artist Jo Ann Neal cites art as her saving therapeutic remedy for her affliction. Neal says, “By embracing my new passion--creating art--I turned a very bitter lemon into a tasty lemonade. My art has an Afrocentric flavor, depicting masks, people and designs.” Neal applies her art to canvas, paper, greeting cards, treasure boxes, canes, small furniture pieces and more. With a bit of whimsy and vibrant colors, she considers her art to be “good medicine” for herself and others. Neal shares her art, nationally, through solo and group exhibitions, community projects, and media events. As she affirms, “You can bet I will continue to paint as long as these crooked fingers can hold a paintbrush!”

This reception coincides with October’s “3rd in the Burg” and is free and open to the public with refreshments and food provided by the gallery with live music by Jonathan Frazier.

For more information, go to http://www.galleryatsecond.com/

For a Facebook event RSVP, go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/552611178145982/

Media contact: Linda Walke, [email protected]

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