Perspectives
Alan Paine Radebaugh and Robert M. Ellis
Exhibiting August 2 - October 5, 2019
First Friday Opening Reception: August 2, 5-8pm
Check out our booth! Happening during the gallery exhibit:
Albuquerque Art Showcase: August 15-19, 2019
Location: ABQ Convention Center, Southwest Exhibit Hall
First Friday's: September 6 & October 4, 5-8pm
Artist talk: Coming Soon
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| Alan Paine Radebaugh, King's Cake, oil on canvas, 50" x 120" |
“Perspective” is the filter by which experience binds
time and place, creating the impression in which conscious and unconscious emotional
value generates memory. “Perspective” as an artistic device is utilized to
transfer the memory of three dimensions onto a two-dimensional plane.
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| Robert M. Ellis, View of Ranchos Church #4, oil on canvas, 78" x 144" |
When exposed to the northern
New Mexico landscape of Taos, Ellis admitted he was so awed by the landscape he
could not paint it. “Eventually”, Ellis remarked, “the fields became like
floorboards—they had that perspective and angle to them.” Like the floorboard
receding into a room, Ellis’ two-point perspective landscapes vanish into the
corners of geometric canvases and compositions resulting in an architectural
approach to landscape painting. Ellis’
perspective places the audience grounded by the expansive fields while
floating in the sky above.
For years as a painter, Alan Paine Radebaugh was challenged
by the vastness of landscape. To paint the boldness and hugeness of the
mountains and plains of North America, he tightly-framed and intensified his
vision of the landscape. He viewed nature in small abstract shapes and painted
the geology and flora of the land in fragments.
Overtime, using his familiar brushstrokes, he built these fragments into
large abstracted landscapes. Currently,
his landscapes are more representational. Yet, if one views these new paintings
up close, one sees that the images are still fragmented and built of
Radebaugh’s familiar abstract shapes.
Using one-point perspective and rich painterly surfaces, Radebaugh
invites his audience into his landscapes.
More about the Artists:
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| Alan Paine Radebaugh, GSL 10, GSL 12, GSL 11, Oil on canvas, 36" x 28" |
