Waddell Slonim catalog

THEODORE WADDELL

February 2-14, 2015

Reception February 12, 7:00 - 9:00 PM

ALTAMIRA FINE ART SCOTTSDALE 7038 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona | 480.949.1256 172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming | 307.739.4700 www.altamiraart.com

DAVID MICHAEL SLONIM

THEODORE WADDELL “I tell people that I’m a Western artist in that the subject matter that I do has tied me to Western art. I’m painting a contemporary slice of the West. I’m living what I paint.” – Theodore Waddell Theodore Waddell was born in 1941 in Billings, Montana, and raised in Laurel, Montana.

He studied with Isabelle Johnson, Montana’s first modernist painter, before earning a scholarship to study at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He received his MFA from Wayne State University.

Waddell’s sophisticated modernist paintings have attracted widespread recognition. A former cattle rancher, Waddell most often paints freely rendered range animals roaming the vast plains of Eastern Montana. His art draws a deliberate parallel between his subject and abstract art elements. Cattle and horses are motifs arranged formally on the flattened and enveloping painted “ground” characteristic of modernism. While his early works were noted for heavily textured surfaces, Waddell’s recent paintings are more atmospheric, with translucent wax medium layers suggesting the drift of grazing animals, transitions of days, and the movement of seasons.

Waddell was deeply influenced by Abstract Expressionists such as Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollack, Hans Hoffman, and others. Waddell noted, “I didn’t realize how important these influences were. These painters wanted you to know that the canvas had a presence, more than their illusionistic predecessors. The paint had its own identity as well with thick swatches, drips, and blurbs.”

Waddell’s paintings represent diverse approaches, styles, and techniques. There are cattle or horses dotting expansive plains. Some are huddled together in winter blizzards, lost in landscapes of thick paint, under the windswept colors of a rising moon. They are brushed, knifed, dripped, jotted down, and can be thickly textured or feint abstractions. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Denver Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Booth Museum of Western Art, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, among others.

Dell Angus #3 Oil, Encaustic on Canvas 20 x 24 inches

Bob Marshall Horses Dr. #9 Mixed Media on Mylar 12 x 12 inches Bob Marshall Horses Dr. #10 Mixed Media on Mylar 12 x 12 inches Bob Marshall Mules Dr. #6 Mixed Media on Mylar 12 x 12 inches

Highwood Angus Oil on Canvas 36 x 42 inches

Dillon Paint Oil on Canvas 18 x 18 inches

Condon Horses Dr. #1 Mixed Media on Mylar 12 x 12 inches Condon Horses Dr. #2 Mixed Media on Mylar 12 x 12 inches Condon Horses Dr. #3 Mixed Media on Mylar 12 x 12 inches

Monida Angus #20 Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches

Winter Horses #5 Oil, Encaustic on Canvas 18 x 24 inches

Cascade Oil on Linen 30 x 40 inches

DAVID MICHAEL SLONIM “I started out as a plein air painter. The more I painted and studied, the more fascinated I became with abstraction. Now I am more interested in interpreting nature than representing nature.” - David Michael Slonim David Michael Slonim was born in Miami, Florida, in 1966. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988.

Slonim’s fine art career began with a sold-out show in 1998 at Overland Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. His work is inspired by a wide variety of masters including Diebenkorn, Mitchell, Motherwell, de Kooning, and Cezanne. Slonim develops visual rhythms from a combination of observation and improvisation.

“I feel an affinity with the abstract expressionists of the mid 20th century,” he says. “I share their belief that relationships of color, space, and texture can convey aspects of human experience in purely visual terms.”

His work has been selected for the Coors Western Art Exhibit, Great American Artists, C.M. Russell Auction, Western Rendezvous of Art, Western Miniatures Show at the C.M. Russell Museum, and the Rising Stars exhibit at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum. Solo exhibitions at regional museums include the Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, Indiana; Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, Indiana; and Anderson Center for the Arts, Anderson, Indiana.

Slonim’s paintings hang in corporate, museum and private collections nationally. His work has been featured in Western Art & Architecture, Southwest Art, Big Sky Journal, USArt, Plein Air Magazine, and Indianapolis Monthly.

Modulation No. 9 Oil on Linen 48 x 36 inches

Kissing in Heavy Traffic Oil on Linen 30 x 24 inches

Lean In to It Oil on Linen 20 x 16 inches

Modulation No. 1 Oil on Linen 48 x 36 inches

Modulation No. 2 Oil on Linen 48 x 36 inches

Snorkeling With You Oil on Canvas 24 x 18 inches

Red White Oil on Canvas 60 x 48 inches

Yellow and Blue Over White Oil on Linen 30 x 24 inches

Modulation No. 11 Oil on Canvas 60 x 48 inches

UPCOMING SHOWS R. TOM GILLEON “RODEO DRIVE: A LOOK AT THE ARTIST’S HOME ON THE RANGE” Show Dates: February 16-28, 2015 Reception Date: February 26, 7-9pm

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