Gallery Talk and Stroll
Perspectives: Exhibiting August 2 - October 5
Featuring works by Alan Paine Radebaugh & Robert M. Ellis
Thursday, September 265:30-7:30pm
Guest Speakers, starting at 6:00pm
- Albuquerque Museum Director, Andrew Connors
- Artist, Alan Paine Radebaugh
- Robert M. Ellis Collection Trustee, Wendy Shannon
Open late on September 6 & October 5!
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| View of the Main Gallery, featuring both Robert M. Ellis and Alan Paine Radebaugh |
An exhibition of contemporary landscapes by Robert M. Ellis on behalf of the Robert M. Ellis Collection Trust and Alan Paine Radebaugh. Perspectives includes paintings and prints by Ellis and paintings by Radebaugh.
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| Robert M. Ellis, Studio Bay with View of Valdez Valley, Lithograph |
“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. 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.
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| Alan Paine Radebaugh, Jonson Sixteen, Oil on canvas |
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.
Find out more:
RadebaughFineArt.com
RobertMEllis.com
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