LenChmiel

Hardcover, 200 pages, 150 color plates
$65.00 retail
Release date: December 2011
Distributed by University of New Mexico Press

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New Release 

Sparks cover

Introduction by Roddy MacInnes, interview by Blake Milteer, and essays by John Nichols and Sparks, with an afterword by Sparks Susan Zwinger

$45.00

12x12” hardcover; 104 pages; 60 black and white plates

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  Sprick catalogue  

The Living and the Dead                                           

Daniel Sprick

One Man Exhibition

 

Part One

  There is a delicate rhythm to the most recent work by realist Daniel Sprick...

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Conversation with Wayne Thiebaud, recorded March 16, 2009, in the sunlit offices at LeBarons Fine Art, Sacramento, California for the Loveland Museum of Art, Loveland, Colorado. Mr. Thiebaud said he had one hour to talk, but that easily slipped into ninety minutes--I could have stayed there all day listening to him. 

Wayne Thiebaud

RF: When people write about your work they use such words and phrases as: ‘what happiness feels like’; ‘radiant rainbow outlines’; ‘dance of brushstrokes’; and, ‘joyful’. I wonder, is the light and humor in your work a reflection of you as a person or more influenced by something outside your control?

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YellowstoneLen Chmiel’s painting, his art and his life as a painter, gardener and vintner flow in the vein of ‘aestheticism’, very much in the same sense as artists such as James McNeill Whistler who avowed the belief that fine art and design carry equal status, and that art need not have a moral or didactic purpose; the pursuit of beauty is enough. The Water Series is, in many ways, a culmination of Chmiel’s lifelong artistic pursuit. The six paintings that make up this series come from on-the-spot paintings created over the last twenty-five years, and speak to his innate design ability that is ever entwined with his own aesthetic and deep understanding of art. As with Whistler, Chmiel understands perfectly that fine art is a melding of design and beauty. Through the clarity of pure water, Chmiel shines like no other American painter today. -RF

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