Alan Paine Radebaugh
Albuquerque, NM
NIGHT ONE
Oil on canvas panel
14” x 33” x 0”
2005
$1500
About
An American artist, born in Boston and raised in Maine and New York, Alan Paine Radebaugh left New England in 1973. He had studios in Santa Barbara, CA; Portland, OR; and Pueblo, CO before settling in NM in 1979. In 2002, he had a major exhibit spanning 20 years of creativity, Chasing Fragments: 1982 – 2002, at 516 Magnifico Artspace, Albuquerque, NM. His exhibit, Mass: of Our World, at UNM Art Museum Jonson Gallery received Albuquerque Arts Alliance Award for Excellence in Visual Arts in 2007. Paintings from this series are in the Albuquerque Museum, UNM Art Museum, State of New Mexico 1% for the Arts. In 2009, Radebaugh began his project Ghost of Sea, traveling from NM to the Arctic Ocean for inspiration. Ghost of Sea has shown in 8 solo exhibits, including Nicolaysen Art Museum. For Canyons, his current project begun in 2021, he will journey throughout the American Southwest.
Artist Statement
These organic shapes, I see them everywhere—in the sky, shadows, clouds, and the shadows of clouds, looking into a stream bed, leaves, and the space between the leaves. These shapes that I relate to are absolutely everywhere. I like form and these are forms. Form and color, it is simply an excuse for painting, an excuse for dragging around these paints. I started joining the canvases when individual paintings would bump up against each other and suggest continuity. Sometimes I make that work a little bit, beyond the serendipitous part of it, but mostly the individual paintings are haphazardly joined, creating another environment, making up whole new environments.
