JARED SANDERS
AS LONG AS IT LASTS July 14-26th
Reception Thursday: July 17th 5:00-8:00 PM
ALTAMIRA FINE ART JACKSON
172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming | 307.739.4700 7038 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona | 480. 949.1256 www.altamiraart.com
April Flats, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 63 inches
JARED SANDERS Jared Sanders considers himself a regionalist, and he travels the winding roads of the West for his inspiration. His masterful handling of paint allows him to portray the subtle grace of a small Utah farmhouse at dawn, a vast Montana pasture in early spring, or a hundredyear-old Colorado barn. His skies are exquisite luminous yet quietly potent. The artist’s reverence for the everyday contemporary West is clearly evident in his work. In his latest work, Sanders says he has been searching out the abstract in the intermountain western landscapes he loves so much. “The architecture, the composition, the division of shapes within the scene is where I find the abstraction,” he said. “As an artist I try to look at things differently. I want to find the beauty in scenes that others may have overlooked, and present them in a pleasing and unique way. There is a piece of me in my paintings, and a little mystery in them.” Sanders infuses his paintings with potency and nostalgia, aware as he is that many of the scenes he paints will be gone someday. He chose the title for his show based on his quest as an artist to find and portray these scenes. “For as long as it lasts, I will keep searching and looking and painting,” he said. Jared Sanders’ selected awards include the 2000 Art for the Parks People’s Choice Award, a 2003 Award for Best Oil or Acrylic at Maynard Dixon Country; and the 2004 Purchase Award at Deseret News Landscape Art Show “Color of The Land.” In September 2000, he was featured in Southwest Art’s “21 under 31.” He has had over a dozen one-man shows in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Sedona, Arizona, Park City, Utah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. His heroic canvas, the 72” x 60” Landmark, was acquired in 2013 by the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Whitney Gallery for their For More images from Jared’s show please visit: permanent collection. http://www.altamiraart.com/exhibitions/85/works
St. Charles, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Early March, Oil on Canvas, 24 x 24 inches
1918, Oil on Canvas, 35 x 72 inches
Bloomington, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 inches
One Sided, Oil on Canvas, 35 x 72 inches
West Side, Oil on Canvas, 38 x 60 inches
Open Spaces, Oil on Canvas, 35 x 72 inches
For more information please contact Dean Munn at dean@altamiraart.com or Katherine Harrington at katherine@altamiraart.com or call 307.739.4700 www.altamiraart.com