PAUL STANLEY: Garden City Art Exhibitions Announced

KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley will present his art at two special appearances on January 4 and January 5 at the Wentworth Gallery in Garden City, New York. Both appearances are open to the public and free of charge.

The details are as follows:

Wentworth Gallery
Roosevelt Field Mall
Garden City, NY 11530
RSVP: 516.742.6100
Friday, January 4, 2008 6 - 9 p.m.
Saturday, January 5, 2008 6 - 9 p.m.

Paul Stanley visited Fox 5's "Good Day Atlanta" on October 19 to promote his Atlanta art appearances at the Wentworth Gallery. Watch the interview at MyFoxAtlanta.com.

When asked by INsite magazine during a recent interview what encouraged or prompted him to pick up the brushes and begin painting at this stage of his life, Stanley said, "About six or seven years ago I was getting divorced and I really, like many people in that position, had a lot going on and a lot that maybe needed to get released. A friend of mine, my best friend, said that I needed to paint and my having never really applied myself to painting, somehow that connected with me and I went out and bought canvasses and paints and brushes and all kinds of other supplies and just decided to throw caution to the wind. The only thing that I was clear on from the get-go was that I wasn't interested in making a flower pot look like a flower pot. I was more interested in painting a reality that didn't necessarily have to be a literal or visual depiction of something so I wanted to approach it more of a stream of consciousness, where perhaps instead of using words I was using colors and textures to put my emotions, or what was going on inside me, on canvas. It was purely a relief and, I guess, cathartic therapy for me that once other people started seeing clearly connected with them."