NIK WALLENDA
oil on canvas
30″ H x 24″ W
Art Uptown Would like to welcome Bix Mannion as a new resident artist to the gallery!
Artist Bio:
Bix is a contemporary impressionist painter who focuses on the portrait, the figure and its relationship to its environment.
His first patron was his grandmother who with her husband, Jack Dorrance, had one of the finest
impressionist art collections in the world. Having carefully observed Bix’s interest and talent in art, she arranged for his first private lesson at the age of ten from Madame Magat one of the premier french painting instructors in the Philadelphia area at the time.
Bix went on to focus on his art at The Hotchkiss School and Middlebury College. Hearing the turmoils of the starving artist, Bix opted for a career in finance where he spent twenty five years of his life. All through his career as a mortgage banker Bix found time to feed his passion which is painting. Bix, now a full artist, has studied privately and academically in the United States and abroad. He has received instruction and guidance from likes of Everette Raymond Kinstler, Peter Van Dyck, Peter Paone, Ellen Cooper, Gene Costanza and Charles Miano.
SIESTA
oil on canvas
22″ H x 26″ W
His work can be found in many personal and corporate collections throughout the United States. He was awarded 1st Place in Art Uptown Gallery’s “Dog Days of Summer” juried art show in Sarasota Florida.
He is a member of The Portrait Society of America and served as a Board of Director for Main Line Art Center in Haverford PA.
Bix and his wife, Gretchen, live with their eleven year old daughter, Grace, in Sarasota Florida while their adult children live in the Philadelphia area where they all grew up.
Stop by the gallery on Main Street, in Downtown Sarasota, and experience the work of Bix Mannion and our other talented resident artists!
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