Duke Beardsley Solo Exhibition 2018

Duke Beardsley Exhibition: Never, Not Always: Vital Extravagances from the Lost Trail to Nowhere January 15 - February 3, 2018

Reception: January 18, 6:30 - 9pm

Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale

Altamira Fine Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition for Duke Beardsley January 15 February 3, 2018.

Please join us for the Artist Reception on Thursday, January 18 from 6:30-9pm during the Scottsdale ArtWalk.

Duke Beardsley has a masterly command of drawing technique.

His working cowboy images are rendered in a clever minimalist approach and presented in

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palettes that lend a Pop Art sensibility. His unique art, like his western lifestyle, is a joyful melding of tradition and contemporary styling.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Duke BEARDSLEY

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Duke Beardsley was born in 1969 in Denver, Colorado. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. As a fifth generation Coloradan, Duke Beardsley’s western roots run deep. Splitting his time between Denver and his family’s cattle ranch in eastern Colorado, he has been drawing and painting images of the American West most of his life. His work blends modern artistic elements with the traditional icons of the West. The result has made him a consistently popular favorite among collectors of contemporary western art.

Beardsley’s work has been featured in exhibitions including the Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale, The Russell: The Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum, and the Colorado Governor’s Invitational Art Show & Sale.

Collections include the Denver Art Museum, the Forbes Collection, Booth Museum of Western Art and the State of Colorado.

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ART CATALOG “ Color and pattern continue to be a means to an end for me.

They’re tools I use to intentionally remove the cowboy icon from the herd-bound and conventional trappings of the traditional western landscape. What does the icon mean out here on its own? Does it still carry the traditional weight and provenance? Rugged individualism, heroic, tough? And what happens when you impose a decidedly and unapologetically romanticized icon in front of an equally stylized and romanticized invented background of a hundred floating cowboys?”

~ Duke Beardsley

DUKE BEARDSLEY

Argent De Poncho, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Bastille, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Berro, Oil on Canvas, 60" x 60"

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Café, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30"

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Don Dinero, Oil on Canvas, 60" x 60"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

El Charro!, Mixed Media on Collage, 18” x 36”

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Fleur de Lis, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

La Framboise, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

La Guardiana, Oil on Canvas, 72" x 60"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Le Lapin, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Tuscadero, Oil on Canvas, 60” x 60”

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Cavalier, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 36"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Cornflower, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 36"

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Never Had It , Oil on Canvas, 12" x 36"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Never Will, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 36"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Orange Whip , Oil on Canvas, 12" x 36"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Wilbur, Oil on Canvas, 12" x 36"

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Ficticios, Mixed Media on Collage, 8" x 10" Series of 24 paintings.

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Vaqueros Pequeños, Oil on Canvas, 8" x 10" Series of 24 paintings.

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Northstar, Oil on Canvas, 48" x 72"

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Join us for our

upcoming 2018 shows in Scottsdale, including: R. Tom Gilleon: Ten Little Tipis January 29 - Februay 3, 2018 Reception: Thursday, February 1, 6:30-9pm Jivan Lee: By the Wayside February 5 - 24, 2018 Reception: Thursday, February 8, 6:30-9pm Tony Abeyta: Solo Exhibition February 26 - March 10, 2018 Reception: Thursday, March 1, 6:30-9pm

2 LOCATIONS: JACKSON, WY + SCOTTSDALE, AZ

7038 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona | 480.949.1256 172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming | 307.739.4700 For more information on gallery artists visit www.altamiraart.com