Social Distancing International Virtual Exhibition

Red Mesa No.3, oil on paper, 12x16in.

I’m excited to participate in a virtual show hosted by Michael Rose who is an art historian, gallerist, appraiser, and gallery manager at the Providences Art Club in Rhode Island. Michael created the exhibition in response to COVID-19 and the corresponding gallery closures. The exhibit features 30 works by artist from across the globe, in various stages of their careers.

Michael selected my painting Red Mesa No.3 to be included in the show. In this work I provide a glimpse into Oklahoma’s diverse landscape. The mesas are the highest points of elevations in the state, they hold prehistoric treasures, and mark where the Rocky Mountains meet the shortgrass prairie. In this Red Mesa painting I use color to reflect on the Oklahoma’s iconic red dirt, its long hot summers, the past and present, and the cycle of life and death. 

In Michael’s view the painting offers “a western landscape that is reduced to absolute and necessary forms of land and sky. While we normally think of the great parallel expanse of the West, or the grand skyscapes therein, the vertical orientation here makes us aware of the connection between the horizon and the heavens.”

Please take a few minutes and visit the Michael Rose Fine Art website to see works by these other wonderful artists.

Click here to visit the virtual exhibit.