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post sticky: about these paintings

January 22nd, 2010

Filed under: blather — Matthew Landkammer @ 8:08 am

For more about these little landscape paintings and why I am doing them, read this post.

post 2010020701

February 8th, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 5:54 am

2010020701

2010020701
oil on panel
8″ x 8″
2010
$200

post 2010020601

February 6th, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 10:15 am

2010020601

2010020601
oil on panel
18″ x 18″
2010
$200

post 2010020501

February 5th, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 7:11 am

2010020501

2010020501
oil on panel
8″ x 8″
2010
$200

post 2010020401 (Alberta)

February 4th, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 7:56 am

2010020401

2010020401 (Alberta)
oil on canvas
12″ x 12″
2010
$200

post 2010020301 (squall)

February 3rd, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 7:56 am

2010020301

2010020301 (squall)
oil on canvas
12″ x 12″
2010
$200

zinc white
ultramarine blue
raw umber
naples yellow
light red

#20 flat hog bristle
#4 filbert sable

post 2010020201

February 2nd, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 8:02 am

2010020201

2010020201
oil on panel
12″ x 12″
2010
$200

post 2010020101 (nowhere)

February 1st, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 8:05 am

2010020101

2010020101 (nowhere)
oil on panel
12″ x 12″
2010
$200

post 2010013101 (Utah)

January 31st, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 8:05 am

2010013101

2010013101 (Utah)
oil on panel
12″ x 12″
2010
$200

post 2010013001 (Snake River at Twin Falls, ID)

January 30th, 2010

Filed under: recent work, studio/process — Matthew Landkammer @ 9:09 am

2010013001

2010013001 (Snake River at Twin Falls, ID)
oil on panel
10″ x 10″
2010
$200

post A New Frequency

January 29th, 2010

Filed under: artist statements, blather, slow art — Matthew Landkammer @ 8:11 am

Alan Wiseman, in The World Without Us, describes the primeval forest that once covered the better part of Europe, one last remaining chunk of which is the Bialowieza Puszcza in Poland. The beginning of the passage (in fact, the first line of the book), reads:

You may never have heard of the Bialowieza Puszcza. But if you were raised somewhere in the temperate swathe that crosses much of North America, Japan, Korea, Russia, several former Soviet republics, parts of China, Turkey, and Eastern and Western Europe—including the British Isles—something within you remembers it.

And further:

To enter it is to realize that most of us were bred to a pale copy of what nature intended. Seeing alders with trunks seven feet wide, or walking through stands of the tallest trees here—gigantic Norway spruce, shaggy as Methuselah—should seem as exotic as the Amazon or Antarctica to someone raised among the comparatively puny, second-growth woodlands found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Instead, what’s astonishing is how primally familiar it feels. And, on some cellular level, how complete.

I don’t doubt for a second that our ancestry leaves us somehow coded to feel at home in a certain landscape. But this is my heritage, Europe, and I am drawn to something else entirely.

There is no greater comfort for me than the endless expanse of the open prairie. I feel it in my bones when I am in the landscape. It feels like home. This draw has certainly been at the root of almost all the artwork I have done over the past, say, fifteen years. And it is part of what I am doing now. Perhaps my more recent ancestry — my grandparents and great-grandparents worked the land in Nebraska –  has re-coded my genes. Perhaps I have been tuned to a new frequency — that of the unbroken horizon.

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