"Silent Forest, Water, Wind & Stone" - Dan Mason

DAN MASON SILENT FOREST, WATER, WIND & STONE

April 23 - June 4, 2022

DAN MASON

Dan Mason studied art at St. Olaf College and received the MFA in drawing and painting at the University of Iowa. He has taught art and art history at colleges in Kansas and Minnesota, and retired from teaching after twenty years at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park. Dan’s paintings are in numerous corporate and public collections, including General Mills, Target Corporation, Methodist Hospital, Wells Fargo, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Thrivent Financial, and more. Dan has completed numerous commissions for stained glass designs for architectural settings in Minnesota, Kansas, Michigan and Oklahoma. He recently designed stained glass windows for the Pearson Chapel at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas.

ARTIST STATEMENT My oil on linen paintings are abstractions of landscape, architecture and space. In some cases, the settings are imagined, with forms that suggest hillsides, cities, figural trees, harbors and bodies of water. With others I am inspired by characteristics of specific places—the waters of Gunflint Lake in Minnesota, the architecture of Italian hill towns, and forests of very old trees. The geometry of these forms provides a structure on which I explore color, light, texture and illusions of flat and deep space.

Looking back over my career in painting, I see that I have worked to bring order out of chaos, striving for images that convey and promote a sense of peace.

As I paint, I make a series of applications of transparent oil glazes which gradually develop color that is complex and layered. Forms create the illusion of light and color that emanates from within. Contrasts of light and shadow “carve” the surface with the illusion of three-dimensional forms, and suggest both a shallow space between forms, and infinite space across land and water.

The textured linen support catches and holds the thin oil glazes, adding its own physical quality to the surface.

Writing in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, art critic Mary Abbe observed: “Distilled in part from the design of ancient Italian hill towns, his dreamy, utopian world offers an imaginative vision of a landscape enhanced rather than despoiled by human intervention.”

- Dan Mason

Water & Stone VIII 2016 | oil on linen $3,600.00 image: 54 x 44" | frame: 56 x 46"

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Morning Wind IV 2022 | oil on linen $1,900.00 image: 26 x 26" | unframed

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Morning Wind III 2022 | oil on linen $500.00 image: 10 x 10" | unframed

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Morning Wind II 2022 | oil on linen $500.00 image: 10 x 10" | unframed

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Painted Forest V 2022 | oil on linen $2,300.00 image: 42 x 32" | unframed

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Water & Stone XIII 2022 | oil on linen $2,900.00 image: 42 x 42" | unframed

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Painted Forest VI 2022 | oil on linen $2,100.00 image: 42 x 30" | unframed

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Sarteano Evening II 2022 | oil on linen $1,900.00 image: 24 x 28" | unframed

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Northern Waters II 2021 | oil on linen $500.00 image: 10 x 10" | unframed

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Northern Waters 2021 | oil on linen $500.00 image: 10 x 10" | unframed

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Sarteano Evening III 2022 | oil on linen $1,900.00 image: 26 x 26" | unframed

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Sarteano Evening 2021 | oil on linen $500.00 image: 10 x 10" | unframed

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