Joe Fay

Blue Beaver

2023

In 1993, a window of opportunity opened as a result of several different situations that were occurring. I was participating in an Artist-in-Residence program in Yellowstone National Park. At the same time, I had recently been asked to show my artwork in nearby Livingston, Montana. All of these events resulted in a major lifestyle change. My love of the outdoors and of fly-fishing drew me to make the transition. So here I am. I live in a small town nestled in the Rocky Mountains where life is the opposite of what it was in Los Angeles. - Joe Fay

In 1993, a window of opportunity opened as a result of several different situations that were occurring. I was participating in an Artist-in-Residence program in Yellowstone Nationa...

Les Thomas' animal paintings tend to play with the relationship between culture and nature. The special encaustic wax finish that he applies, he explains, "may very well pertain to m...

In 1993, a window of opportunity opened as a result of several different situations that were occurring. I was participating in an Artist-in-Residence program in Yellowstone Nationa...

Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality that grip the viewer with the idea that he or she is looking at a contemporary description of something timeless. For painter Gary Komarin, abstraction has never been a formal dead end. Rather, it has allowed him to challenge the limitations of the style - to make painting ‘include more’ precisely because a recognizable image excludes too much. Komarin has been called a “painter’s painter”. His status in this regard is based on the authenticity of his work, its deep connection to the tradition of Modern painting as well as its sustained individuality as an utterly personal voice. Like many of the best artists of his generation he is indebted to the New York School, especially his mentor Philip Guston with whom he studied at Boston University where he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Komarin has been particularly successful at filtering these influences through his own potent iconography. “From these seemingly unlovely methods Komarin gets paintings that vibrate with historical memory, echoing such things as Matisse’s driest most empty pictures. Robert Motherwell’s spare abstractions of the 1970’s, or the early New Mexico and Berkeley paintings...

Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three diverse cultures-native, Anglo and Spanish. Majio has for many decades made yearly painting trips and extended retreats to the triangle between Sante Fe, Taos and Abiquiu. Her animal depictions not only reflect stories but are also enhanced by how people there embody the land and wildlife. Her intimate connection to the cultural traditions of the Pueblo Indians, descents from 15th century Spanish...

Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem. Oil on canvas, measuring 76,2 x 91,4 cm Signed Verso Bunnies by Hunt Slonem When Hunt Slonem enters his studio each morning, he warms up...

Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem. Oil on wood Painting is framed, as seen in the images. Framed dimension 14.5 x12 inches Signed Verso, titled and dated. Please note that ...