Duke Beardsley | Range Monitor

Duke Beardsley

Legatee, Oil, 72" x 60"

Exhibition: Range Monitor January 23 - February 4, 2017

Reception: January 26, 6:30-9pm

Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale az@altamiraart.com

Altamira Fine Art Scottsdale is pleased to present Range Monitor, the third annual solo exhibition for Duke Beardsley in Arizona.

Please join us for the Artist Reception on Thursday, January 26 from 6:309:00pm during the Gold Palette ArtWalk.

Presales available. Call 480-949-1256, or email az@altamiraart.com.

A highly anticipated new body of work will be highlighted in this new show, which centers on the idea of transparencies and visual plays on overlapping realities and falsehoods. “ Color and pattern continue to be a means to an

end for me. They’re tools I use to intentionally remove the cowboy icon from the herd-bound and conventional trappings of the traditional western landscape. What does the icon mean out here on its own? Does it still carry the traditional weight and provenance? Rugged individualism, heroic, tough?

And what happens when you impose a decidedly and unapologetically romanticized icon in front of an equally stylized and romanticized invented background of a hundred floating cowboys?� ~Duke Beardsley

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

DUKE BEARDSLEY

ALTAMIRA FINE ART SCOTTSDALE az@altamiraart.com

Duke Beardsley was born in 1969 in Denver, Colorado. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. As a fifth generation Coloradan, Duke Beardsley’s western roots run deep. Splitting his time between Denver and his family’s cattle ranch in eastern Colorado, he has been drawing and painting images of the American West most of his life. His work blends modern artistic elements with the traditional icons of the West. The result has made him a consistently popular favorite among collectors of contemporary western art.

Beardsley has a masterly command of drawing technique. His working cowboy images are rendered in a clever minimalist approach and presented in palettes that lend a Pop art sensibility. His unique art, like his western lifestyle, is a joyful melding of tradition and contemporary styling.

Beardsley’s work has been featured in exhibitions including the Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale, The Russell: The Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum, and the Colorado Governor’s Invitational Art Show & Sale. Collections include the Denver Art Museum, the Forbes Collection, Booth Museum of Western Art, and the State of Colorado.

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SHOW CATALOG

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Legatee, Oil, 72″ x 60″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Ranch 1-5, (5 paintings, sold individually) Oil, 60″ x 48″ each

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Ranch 1, Oil, 60″ x 48″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Ranch 2, Oil, 60″ x 48″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Ranch 3, Oil, 60″ x 48″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Ranch 4, Oil, 60″ x 48″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Ranch 5, Oil, 60″ x 48″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Mango, Oil on Canvas, 40″ x 40″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Tango, Oil on Canvas, 40″ x 40″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Holy Mole, Oil on Canvas, 40″ x 40″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Hangtown, Mixed Media on Collage, 40″ x 52″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Monitor, Oil on Canvas, 60″ x 72″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Silas Soul, Oil on Canvas, 48″ x 60″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Open’d Up, Oil on Canvas, 30″ x 72″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

So What Now? Mixed Media on Collage, 20″ x 36″

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DUKE BEARDSLEY

Much Respect, Oil on Canvas, 30″ x 72″

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UPCOMING SHOWS IN SCOTTSDALE Duke Beardsley “Range Monitor” January 23 - February 4, 2017 Reception: January 26, 6:30-9pm Jivan Lee “Our Land” February 6-18, 2017 Jared Sanders and Robert McCauley “Shelter/Edge of Town” March 6-18, 2017

2 LOCATIONS: JACKSON, WY + SCOTTSDALE, AZ

172 Center Street | Jackson, Wyoming | 307.739.4700 7038 E. Main Street | Scottsdale, Arizona | 480.949.1256 For more information on gallery artists visit www.altamiraart.com