On February 17, Altamira Fine Art in Scottsdale, Arizona, will present a new solo show for landscape painter Jared Sanders. Titled Stone & Sky,the show will feature Sanders’ paintings of remote desert locations in the Southwest.
Chuska Skies, oil on canvas, 36 x 72 in.
Many of his works, including new pieces in this show, are quite large, sometimes measuring 72 inches wide. This allows viewers to stand in front of the paintings and be immersed in the vastness of the location. In many cases, Sanders creates quiet conversations between land and sky amid the droning beauty of light, heat and bleak emptiness.
Stone & Sky, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in.
“Jared Sanders has an uncanny ability to distill the vastness of the American desert into something both intimate and monumental. With Stone & Sky, he turns his attention to the spare geometry and subtle atmospheres of the Southwest. Wide horizons, shifting temperatures of light and silent mesas that define our experience of desert space,” gallery owner Jason Williams says. “Jared’s work reminds us that the desert is not empty; it is essential. By reducing the landscape to its purest relationships, he reveals a deeper rhythm of the West, one rooted in stillness, clarity and endurance. His paintings feel almost architectural in their structure, yet deeply emotional in their restraint. In a world that moves quickly, Jared invites us to slow down and look again. Stone & Sky is a meditation on the spaces that shape us, an homage to the quiet drama of the desert, and a powerful continuation of the New West landscape tradition.”
Native Stone, oil on canvas, 24 x 46 in.
New works include Chuska Skies, which is located near the Chuska Mountain in Northern Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. The 72-inch-wide painting is probably 80 percent sky, here painted a soft blue that shifts nearly white as the sky merges with the horizon. His land forms are painted with hints of blue and violet, which are true to the shadows of the Southwest.
In both Native Stone and Stone & Sky,Sanders focuses more on the land forms and how the harsh desert sunlight can make cliffs and rocky features glow, even as dramatic shadows slice through the natural forms of the rock. The locations he paints are meant to feel inhospitable and even dangerous, and yet their beauty can be overwhelmingly alluring as they call out to those brave enough to venture to these destinations.
Turquoise Sky, oil on canvas, 30 x 60 in.
Stone & Sky opens February 17, and there will be a reception on February 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. —
Altamira Fine Art 7038 E. Main Street • Scottsdale, AZ 85251 • (480) 949-1256 • www.altamiraart.com
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