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Woody Gwyn: Between Earth and Sky
July 20 - August 18, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, July 20, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe
1011 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
TEL 505.954.5700 FAX 505.954.5754
Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am - 5pm
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The Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition “Woody Gwyn:Between Earth and Sky”. The opening reception is Friday, July 20th, 5 to 7 p.m. for which the artist will be in attendance, and the public is invited to attend.
“Looking at the sky, the land, the ocean, produces in me the feeling of seeing the core of something. Out of this feeling, comes my work,” says artist Woody Gwyn. Gwyn’s newest oil paintings of vast landscape horizons, large vertical and horizontal seascapes, and long highway niches reflect this statement. These scenes are often inspired by not only the landscape around Gwyn’s home in Galisteo, New Mexico, but also by his travels. During the past year, his work has been inspired by a visit to the lava-built mountains and rain forested landscape of the Hawaiian Islands
Woody Gwyn, a longtime resident of New Mexico, was born in San Antonio. His landscape paintings reflect the wide horizons of his childhood in West Texas. Remarkable in their technicality, Gwyn’s large canvases are primarily about light and space. He says, “Light and space are what concern me as a painter. They are what define me as a painter. New Mexico gives me an abundance of both. Space defines the physical. Light defines spirit.” Whether it is a pastoral field of grass or a cropped stretch of interstate highway, Gwyn’s paintings explore the grandeur of the American landscape.
Reflecting upon Gwyn’s unique style of realism in the monograph , “Woody Gwyn” Sharyn R. Udall states, “Woody Gwyn’s painting helps us to understand that the external world is always mediated through subjective human experience. When he paints an isolated stretch of highway, a stand of trees, or, for that matter, the Grand Canyon, he opens an inquiry that involves more than earth, sky, and vegetation…These landscapes, studied slowly, invite us to consider anew the absences and presences within the land…Like the road cuts his brush interrogates, they slice into the western landscapes with an acute visual clarity.”
Woody Gwyn was born in 1944 in San Antonio, Texas, and received his formal art education from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Gwyn’s work has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States, and is represented in numerous prestigious museum collections, including the Albuquerque Museum of Art (NM); Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Phoenix Art Museum (AZ), among many others.
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