Peter And Madeline Powell

It's not often that two individual artists are able to combine and express their talents to produce a single body of work. Peter & Madeline Powell have this rare creative alliance. Essentially, painting
is a solo endeavor, yet the Powell's have accomplished a seamless blend of unity in their work.
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Having met on Maui in 1976, they soon started working on each others artwork and before too long, it developed into a natural way of approaching and completing a painting for them.
"Life's treats and play things from the past & present are what we capture in our paintings. We enjoy taking the little things out of everyday life and giving them the prominence and importance they had when we were children. Our paintings invoke the childhood spirit that everyday life has buried deep within us."
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Peter & Madeline Powell are artists who have wed exacting technical photorealism to the sensual memories of one childhood's most pleasurable activities: Eating Candy! Not only getting it, but holding it, looking at it, and unwrapping it - the smell, touch shape & taste of it all come strikingly through the dramatically over-sized images of Hershey Kisses, Bazooka Bubble Gum, M&M's & lollipops - to name a few... The Powell's have covere...

Madeline: Ohio University, Athens, Ohio (BFA)
Cooper School of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

Peter: La Jolla High School Advanced Arts Program,
La Jolla, California

Solo Exhibitions:
2016 "All Piled Up", Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2009 Napua Gallery, Wailea, Maui, HI *(also annually from 1997 through 2008)
1998 Bruce R. Lewin Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Bruce R. Lewin Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, FL
1996 Bruce R. Lewin Gallery, New York, NY
1996 "A Closer Look...", Viewpoints Gallery, Makawao, HI
1995 "At The Movies", Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, FL
1995 "Photorealistic Candies", Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, NY
1995 "Candies on Canvas", Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, FL
1994 "Ones by Two IV: Retrospective", Viewpoints Gallery, Makawao, HI
1993 "Ones by Two III: Close-Ups", Viewpoints Gallery, Makawao, HI
1992 "Ones by Two II: Flora, Fauna, Females & Fenders", Viewpoints Gallery, Makawao, HI
1991 "Ones by Two", Viewpoints Gallery, Makawao, HI

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2017 "Sweet Tooth ll", Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2015 "My Hero: Contemporary Art & Superhero Action", Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA *(traveling through Dec. 2018)
2014 "Everybody Loves a Hero!", Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
2011 "Peter & Madeline Powell and D...