JIM WAID | PORTALS

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JIM WAID

Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the landscape painted upon them; lush with growth they invite the viewer to explore the space. The artist said of his work, “I don’t want the paintings to be like you’re looking at a landscape. I want them to feel like you’re in it.” Initially the paintings seem non-representational, however, they slowly reveal themselves to be made up of organic textures, abstracted natural forms, and the desert landscape. They convey a sense of nature, without the specificity of traditional landscape painting.

Jim Waid was born in Elgin, Oklahoma in 1942. He is considered one of Arizona’s most celebrated painters and is included in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Tucson Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; Arizona State University Art Museum; Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, IN; as well as numerous other museums and corporations. Jim Waid currently lives and works in Tucson, AZ.

30.25 x 36.25 x 1.75 inches

Jim Waid

SPRING WIND

acrylic on canvas

72.25 x 48.25 x 1.75 inches

Jim Waid

WHIRLPOOL

acrylic on canvas

Jim Waid

CHRYSALIS

acrylic on canvas

60 x 86.25 x 1.5 inches

Jim Waid

ROAD RUNNER

acrylic on canvas

40 x 60.25 x 2.25 inches

Jim Waid

OBSERVATORY

acrylic on canvas

66 x 84.25 x 1.75 inches

Jim Waid

DRAGON FRUIT

acrylic on canvas

66.25 x 56 x 1.75 inches

Jim Waid

GARDEN LIFE

acrylic on canvas

40 x 60.25 x 2 inches

CAVE SHADOWS

Jim Waid

acrylic on canvas

66.25 x 84.25 x 1.5 inches

Jim Waid

MOONGARDEN

acrylic on canvas

62.25 x 70 x 1.75 inches

Jim Waid

SUNDROP

acrylic on canvas

32 x 43.5 x 2.25 inches

Jim Waid

HARBINGER

acrylic on canvas

60 x 72.25 x 2.25 inches

JAMBOREE

Jim Waid

acrylic on canvas

57 x 89 x 1.75 inches