Travis Walker

Night at the Tate

2023

Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...

Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...

Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...

Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...

Biography Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979. For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator. His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana. Artist Statement For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear...

This is a framed original painting. Biography Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979. For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator. His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana. Artist Statement For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear or tells sentimental stories of rangeland romance-my paintings embody something more elemental and timeless, animated and abstract. The images tend to be stark, graphic, and charged with painterly energy. Though they are derived from fugitive television images, the paintings, as paintings, are still, silent and non-ephemeral. They register the technological transfer of primal shadows onto the electroluminescent screens of our collective consciousness, a shimmering blur of perception and memory transposed in an interchange of gesture and description, painted marks simultaneously arresting and embodying movement. I've always liked what a painter friend, Marc Vischer, wrote in 1988 about an early group of my western paintings. Now, I'm fourteen years closer to actualizing my vision for this work, and his astute remarks seem more pertinent today than they did then. He wrote in part, "For McConnell, a searing light emanates from a new desert: that of television. And from that most desolate backdrop, he salvages fragments from a movie world that spoke of honor in a land that was lawless. In a romantic sense, McConnell's works are a visual seance. Figures, like specters distorted through intense heat waves, are captured from their eternity of 24 frames a second. Their shapes and shadows are brought back into a radically different world and given substance and texture. It is an impossible attempt to freeze them, to arrest the present's ceaseless molestation of the past, to close off the continuum. Sometimes this is done darkly and thickly as an emphatic gesture of permanence. In other works a few light strokes quickly applied suggest the ephemeral nature of film and perhaps the fleeting nature of our own lives." I have been examining new imagery in my paintings, drawing subjects from Mexican graphic novelas, modern women and men of romance and mystery from the mid-20th century, motorcycles and airplanes. The end titles of movies, stated in several languages, have inspired me to begin a new series of cross-media translations in both acrylic and watercolor. My paintings have long begun where the movies have left off. The elements of water and light co-mingle in some pieces from this series and in others which take the viewpoint of a swimmer, watching other swimmers from the wet side of this aqueous membrane, looking up toward the light. My arrival in Montana in 1982 brought me into intimate contact with some of the most storied places of the historic West and also gave me the opportunity to study the paintings of two of the most influential codifiers of western imagery, Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell...

You will receive this painting stretched, with painted edges and completely ready for hanging. Framing is not obligatory and depends only on your preference. This painting depicts...

You will receive this painting stretched, with painted edges and completely ready for hanging. Framing is not obligatory and depends only on your preference. The "Spring" series c...

Mohammad Osman - Gangireddu Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 36 inches, 2020 Born in 1972 Originally from a village in Mahabubnagar district ,I draw inspiration heavily from village life.. I have completed my bachelors of fine arts from JNAFAU Hyderabad.My first solo show happened with gallery g in 2010.later after that I had many solo and group exhibitions. Recently I have been painting various versions of a bull that is traditionally decorated during sankranthi. I am touched with Indian culture and tradition and since past many years I have been working on this bull series and its also symbolic image of "SANKRANTI" festival. My childhood my village are the reasons for this gangireddu. I lived in a village for twenty five years and am strongly connected to my village and my roots there.And I have chosen Gangireddu because I found it very interesting with beautiful traditional elements in it. I feel it's nothing less than a beautiful composition of art. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: B. F. A ., (Painting) J.N.T.U , College of Fine Arts ,HYDERABAD. SOLO SHOWS: 2010 - Gallery – G , Bangalore. ( Kole Basava - Kala Basava ) 2009 - “RENAISSANCE GALLERY”, Bangalore. 2019 - Gallery - G , Bangalore. GROUP SHOWS . 2019 - Gallerie. Nvya. New Delhi... 2019 - TIGER.. TAO art gallery mumbai…(travelled show) 2019 - TIGER.. the state art gallery, Hyderabad. 2019 - state art gallery Hyderabad, 2017- KARA art show, club botanica. 2017 - Studio 3 art gallery , Mumbai( singapur art fair} 2017- Studio 3 art gallery , Mumbai (Dubai art fair) 2017- A project for private collection, ( huge size painting), Hyderabad 2017- Beyond the contours, Mon art gallery, Kolkatta 2016- Samara art gallery, Ahmedabad 2016- Art for cause, hotel AVASA hyderabad 2016- Studio 3 art gallery , Mumbai 2016- Madhyam, Bangalore 2016- Mahua art gallery. Bangalore 2016- Catharsis art gallery ,Ahmedabad 2016- gallery G , Bangalore 2016- Mahua art gallery Bangalore.. 2016- Madhyam, Bangalore 2015- Gallery NVYA, (flight of expressions) 2015- Gallery NVYA, (oorjha) 2014- show of gallery collection, gallery space,Hyderabad 2014- Concern india foundation ( Hyderabad ) 2014- Concern india foundation ( Ludhiana ) 2014- Gallery space, Hyderabad( art for cause ) 2014- Gallery NVYA, (Zen movments) 2014- Hotel HYATT, Ahmedabad by kalakrithi art gallery 2013- Gallery NVYA, (The winter tale) 2013- Gallery NVYA, (Amalgam prathama collection) 2013- Gallery NVYA, ( 9 th anniversary show) 2013- Gallery NVYA, (Varsha-sharad) 2013- Gallery NVYA, (Basanthagreeshma collection, IGIA) 2013- NVYA Art Gallery , New Delhi ( Within Reach-IV.) 2013- Taj falaknuma palace, Hyderabad (an art saturday by kalakrithi art gallery) 2013- NVYA art gallery, New delhi, (Completely Contemporary) 2013 - NVYA Art Gallery , New Delhi .( The timeless journey of indian contemperory art) 2013 - NVYA Art Gallery , New Delhi . ( Hemanta-Shishir) 2013 - Kalakriti Art Gallery , Hyderabad.( Flavours of hyderabad) 2013 - Time And Space Gallery ,Bangalore 2013- Gallery NVYA, (The timeless journey of indian contemperory art) 2013- Galley NVYA (Comletecontemperory )new delhi 2012- Gallery NVYA, (Hemantha- shishira, IGIA) 2012 - Nvya Art Gallery, New Delhi . ( Within reach lll) 2011 - Forum Art Gallery ,Chennai .( Deccan musings ) 2011 - Time And Space Gallery ,Bangalore 2011- Kalakriti Art Gallery , Hyderabad. ( po10tial - 2 ) 2010 – Biddle & Webb , Birmingham ,U.K. 2010- Galley NVYA (Comletecontemperory )new delhi 2010- gallery G bangalore. 2010 - Time And Space Art Gallery ,Bangalore. 2009 - Goup show of artists from HYDERABAD at Windsor Manner, BANGALORE. 2008 - USA (San Francisco), a Group show with Indian Contemporaries. 2008- Artist from India...

Mohammad Osman - Gangireddu (Sacred Bulls) Acrylic on Canvas, 48 x 48 inches, 2020 Born in 1972 Originally from a village in Mahabubnagar district ,I draw inspiration heavily from village life.. I have completed my bachelors of fine arts from JNAFAU Hyderabad.My first solo show happened with gallery g in 2010.later after that I had many solo and group exhibitions. Recently I have been painting various versions of a bull that is traditionally decorated during sankranthi. I am touched with Indian culture and tradition and since past many years I have been working on this bull series and its also symbolic image of "SANKRANTI" festival. My childhood my village are the reasons for this gangireddu. I lived in a village for twenty five years and am strongly connected to my village and my roots there.And I have chosen Gangireddu because I found it very interesting with beautiful traditional elements in it. I feel it's nothing less than a beautiful composition of art. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: B. F. A ., (Painting) J.N.T.U , College of Fine Arts ,HYDERABAD. SOLO SHOWS: 2010 - Gallery – G , Bangalore. ( Kole Basava - Kala Basava ) 2009 - “RENAISSANCE GALLERY”, Bangalore. 2019 - Gallery - G , Bangalore. GROUP SHOWS . 2019 - Gallerie. Nvya. New Delhi... 2019 - TIGER.. TAO art gallery mumbai…(travelled show) 2019 - TIGER.. the state art gallery, Hyderabad. 2019 - state art gallery Hyderabad, 2017- KARA art show, club botanica. 2017 - Studio 3 art gallery , Mumbai( singapur art fair} 2017- Studio 3 art gallery , Mumbai (Dubai art fair) 2017- A project for private collection, ( huge size painting), Hyderabad 2017- Beyond the contours, Mon art gallery, Kolkatta 2016- Samara art gallery, Ahmedabad 2016- Art for cause, hotel AVASA hyderabad 2016- Studio 3 art gallery , Mumbai 2016- Madhyam, Bangalore 2016- Mahua art gallery. Bangalore 2016- Catharsis art gallery ,Ahmedabad 2016- gallery G , Bangalore 2016- Mahua art gallery Bangalore.. 2016- Madhyam, Bangalore 2015- Gallery NVYA, (flight of expressions) 2015- Gallery NVYA, (oorjha) 2014- show of gallery collection, gallery space,Hyderabad 2014- Concern india foundation ( Hyderabad ) 2014- Concern india foundation ( Ludhiana ) 2014- Gallery space, Hyderabad( art for cause ) 2014- Gallery NVYA, (Zen movments) 2014- Hotel HYATT, Ahmedabad by kalakrithi art gallery 2013- Gallery NVYA, (The winter tale) 2013- Gallery NVYA, (Amalgam prathama collection) 2013- Gallery NVYA, ( 9 th anniversary show) 2013- Gallery NVYA, (Varsha-sharad) 2013- Gallery NVYA, (Basanthagreeshma collection, IGIA) 2013- NVYA Art Gallery , New Delhi ( Within Reach-IV.) 2013- Taj falaknuma palace, Hyderabad (an art saturday by kalakrithi art gallery) 2013- NVYA art gallery, New delhi, (Completely Contemporary) 2013 - NVYA Art Gallery , New Delhi .( The timeless journey of indian contemperory art) 2013 - NVYA Art Gallery , New Delhi . ( Hemanta-Shishir) 2013 - Kalakriti Art Gallery , Hyderabad.( Flavours of hyderabad) 2013 - Time And Space Gallery ,Bangalore 2013- Gallery NVYA, (The timeless journey of indian contemperory art) 2013- Galley NVYA (Comletecontemperory )new delhi 2012- Gallery NVYA, (Hemantha- shishira, IGIA) 2012 - Nvya Art Gallery, New Delhi . ( Within reach lll) 2011 - Forum Art Gallery ,Chennai .( Deccan musings ) 2011 - Time And Space Gallery ,Bangalore 2011- Kalakriti Art Gallery , Hyderabad. ( po10tial - 2 ) 2010 – Biddle & Webb , Birmingham ,U.K. 2010- Galley NVYA (Comletecontemperory )new delhi 2010- gallery G bangalore. 2010 - Time And Space Art Gallery ,Bangalore. 2009 - Goup show of artists from HYDERABAD at Windsor Manner, BANGALORE. 2008 - USA (San Francisco), a Group show with Indian Contemporaries. 2008- Artist from India...

"Contemporary, American, Blue, Vintage TV, with Cat in Mid Century Mod Room" This work is titled, "Ten past 4:00." It is 41 x 58.25" and is Unframed Oil on Canvas. $18,000, price negotiable. A well-known figure of the contemporary Fort Worth art scene, Daniel Blagg...

Acrylic on canvas.