Mr. Mark S. Reynolds
Santa Fe, NM
Landscape Study 3
Oil & alkyd on prepared paper
11” x 15” x 1”
$200
About
1981 – Rhode Island School of Design, Summer Session; Oil Painting, and Drawing and Color
1982 - B.A. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Fine Art major
Related Employment:
1983 – 2003
Career in Decorative Arts:
Evergreene Painting Studios, New York City
Terra Firma, New York City
1998 – 2009
Owner, MSR Color, Inc., New York City and Santa Fe, N.M. Specializing in faux finishing, pictorial and tromp l’oeil murals, stenciling, gold leaf, and historic restoration.
2008 – present:
Trader Joe’s sign and display artist, Santa Fe, N.M. – with mural installations at both Albuquerque, N.M. Trader Joe’s store locations.
Artist Statement
For the past two years, I’ve focused primarily on painting landscapes. During this time, my approach to painting has changed decisively. Realizing that I needed to move past the confinements of a strict representational style, I have begun instead to see the possibilities that arise from letting the paint itself become the subject. Without question, the daily dance I observe between the New Mexico light and land certainly provides aesthetic and spiritual inspiration, but my approach to representing it has now become less literal. Rather, the landscape has become a way to give compositional structure to paintings that are essentially abstract. For me, the immediacy of the resulting work is both more engaging and visually evocative.
Art from Mr. Mark S. Reynolds in other TAAC exhibitions
This is Mr. Mark S. Reynolds's first TAAC exhibition