Together these five artists remind of the pleasure and allure of the natural world while showing us a breath of approaches and techniques.
The artists in 11 Landscapes approach the form in very different ways. From Bryson Gill's near total abstraction in Fog 3 to the precision and detail in James Chronister's works, they run the gamut of approaches to creating a landscape painting. However, not a single painting in the show is a traditional landscape. Swanson's paint pours, abstractions and vague references to a skyline or architecture hint at the built world around us while never quite depicting it. Machado's Wake Series paintings, done with thick impasto strokes of oil paint, allude to water, movement, and the churn of the deep ocean as a cargo ship tears through the water. Russel's Sticks and Stones is a moment in a dense forest, no horizon line or forest specifically, he paints the moss and lichen on branches in beautiful detail, pulling out the vivid greens and textures on the surfaces of branches and leaves.
Together these five artists remind of the pleasure and allure of the natural world while showing us a breath of approaches and techniques.
Together these five artists remind of the pleasure and allure of the natural world while showing us a breath of approaches and techniques.
