Brad Price - "Echoes of Creation" 2019 solo exhibition

Brad Price Echoes of Creation

Brad Price Echoes of Creation

November 1-7, 2019

on the cover: detail of Ghost

Ranch

30x24 oil

225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico | 505.983.1434 www.meyergalleries.com | meyersfnm@aol.com

The bold brushstrokes and colors in expressionist works by Brad Price are inspired by the Southwest landscape and its rugged beauty. His work is a rebirth of the sense of style of early Taos painters and the Post-Impressionists. His works in oil are emotive and colorful with strong directional lines that he employs to guide the viewer into the world that he has seen and experienced.

Through painting Brad Price makes an emotional visit to the scene he is painting. He experiences again what it was like to be there. He can smell the chamisa and hear the waxy clacking of the aspen leaves as they blow in the wind. He can once again enjoy the breeze as it comes down from the mountains. When he paints, he is there. When he hangs a painting on the wall, he invites others to be there with him. The amazing landscape of Northern New Mexico is his primary focus. The light in New Mexico has a luminescent quality all its own, and Price seeks to capture its effects on canvas. His style emphasizes contrast and bold complementary color. His paintings are a total experience placed on canvas. According to Price, “Art is experience and the sharing of experience. It is creating something new and beautiful for the world, and then sharing that moment with others.”

An award-winning illustrator and graphic designer, Price exhibits his works in various galleries in the Southwestern US. During the Oklahoma Bi-centennial his works were exhibited at the Oklahoma State Capital. His work has been on the cover of Santa Fe Circle Magazine. In 2012, Mayor David Coss of Santa Fe, chose one of his paintings for the cover of the Centennial Issue of the Santa Fe Visitor’s Guide.

Black Mesa Vista

14x11 oil

Brad Price is an expressionist southwest artist whose paintings are bold in color, bathed in light and alive with texture and movement. His solo exhibition, “Echoes of Creation,” features a new body of work derived from the artist’s career-long inspiration: the northern New Mexico landscape. The desert flora, mountain vistas, clear air and ethereal light of the southwest draws him back year after year to the land of enchantment to gather inspiration for new paintings. For this year’s solo show, Brad Price’s paintings are a response to his most recent experiences in the southwest where fresh perspectives and shifting seasons invigorated his compositions and color palette.

The result is a distinct body of work that reflects New Mexico’s unique and rugged beauty as seen through the artist’s eyes.

Taos Church

8x10 oil

Galisteo Chamisa

30x40 oil

Lone Cottonwood at Acoma

16x20 oil

The Chama

11x14 oil

Ghost Ranch

30x24 oil

Poppies

8x10 oil

Sun Discs

8x10 oil

Chamisa, Early Snow

40x30 oil

Bell Gate

30x40 oil

The centerpiece of the show is a large 36 x 48" painting titled, “Ranchos de Taos.” The study for this painting was chosen for the “Best of America National Exhibition” of the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society in Park City, Utah.

Ranchos de Taos

36x48 oil

Storm Over Black Mesa

24x30 oil

Abiquiu Cliffs 30x40

oil

Taos Chamisa

20x16 oil

Irises

24x30 oil

Van Gogh Cowboy

16x20 oil

One of the things that I love about northern New Mexico is that the land fills me up when I walk in its beauty. My paintings are a means to express my response to the landscape and culture of the area.

That is why the theme of my show this year is “Echoes of Creation.� These paintings are echoes of my experiences in nature that spring from my heart to the canvas.

Abiquiu Autumn

16x20 oil

Embudo Village

30x40 oil

Aspen Splendor

40x30 oil

Acoma Bouquet

40x30 oil

Chama Wilderness Majesty

30x40 oil

Chimayo

14x11 oil

Las Golondrinas Chapel

16x20 oil

Cerro Blanco

11x14 oil

Rio Grande Deep

11x14 oil

Abiquiu Cottonwoods

24x30 oil

Cerrillos Rider

24x30 oil

Vase of Irises

30x24 oil

Rio Grande Reflections

16x20 oil

Brad Price

Echoes of Creation

Black Mesa Vista Taos Church Galisteo Chamisa Lone Cottonwood at Acoma The Chama Ghost Ranch Poppies Sun Discs Chamisa, Early Snow Bell Gate Ranchos de Taos Storm Over Black Mesa Abiquiu Cliffs Taos Chamisa Irises Van Gogh Cowboy Abiquiu Autumn Enbudo Village Aspen Splendor Acoma Bouquet Chama Wilderness Majesty Chimayo Las Golondrinas Chapel Cerro Blanco Rio Grande Deep Abiquiu Cottonwoods Cerrillos Rider Vase of Irises Rio Grande Reflections Santa Fe Chamisa

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Brad Price

Echoes of Creation

Education BFA University of Oklahoma MTS Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Selected One Man Exhibitions Taos Museum of Art Meyer Gallery, Santa Fe Art Exchange Gallery, On the plaza, Santa Fe Firehouse Art Center, Oklahoma MSB Gallery, Oklahoma Santa Fe Art Depot, Oklahoma The Chapel of the Arts, Oklahoma Cloudcroft Gallery, Cloudcroft New Mexico Gallery III, Oklahoma Wind River Gallery, Oklahoma Santa Fe Arts Festival, Norman, Oklahoma Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia, South America Unicentro, Cali, Colombia, South America Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, South America Selected Collections Private Collection, Senator Altamirano, NM Private Collection, Senator Bingaman, NM Lectures and Workshops Workshop in Alla Prima painting, Oklahoma Workshop on “Painting like Van Gogh” Drawing Course in Istanbul, Turkey Drawing Course in Morocco Drawing Course in Oklahoma Art Workshop, Cali, Colombia, South America Art Workshop, Medellin, Colombia, South America Art Workshop", Bogota, Colombia, South America Art Workshop, Panama City, Panama, Central America 15 week drawing course, Cali, Colombia, South America Taught “Art and the Church," Colombia, South America Taught “Art and the Church," Theological Seminary, USA

Santa Fe Chamisa

Brad Price Echoes of Creation November 1-7, 2019

Opening Reception Friday, November 1, 2019 5 to 7pm

225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico | 505.983.1434 www.MeyerGalleries.com | meyersfnm@aol.com

16x20 oil