Jared Sanders "Earth, Man and Sky" July 2019

JARED SANDERS

July 9 – 20, 2019 Jackson Hole

JARED SANDERS Earth, Man and Sky

Jackson Hole | Scottsdale | AltamiraArt.com

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Beginnings Oil on panel | 38 x 70 inches Enquire

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Jared Sanders

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Utah-native Jared Sanders finds his art on the road. Long stretches of pavement stitch together rural outposts in the American West, along which are tight shoulders where the artist parks to take in subtly sublime scenes of farmland, rivers and forests. While traveling, he allows the landscape to wash over his consciousness, registering line, shape and color from the constant stream of roadside stimuli.

Back in the studio, the essential elements percolate and resolve themselves into compositions that read simultaneously as transcendent and specific: barns made iconic by the vastness that surrounds them; a limitless desert sky grounded in sage. He sets his horizons low, allowing for peace to pervade, albeit in quiet tension with the subsumed ground. Through his meditative practice, the paved promise of Western roadways reads as calm conduits for communion with place.

Striving not for photorealism, Sanders instead reduces the noise of his travels

into serene abstractions. Disparate photos are distilled into explorations of color and form —a cliff band as contrasting contours, a roof tiled by palette knife. Less narrative and more evocative, his hand visible at every turn. Painterly and patient.

Titles gesture at locations, but never point.

Sanders considers himself a regionalist, roving between the farmlands of Utah, the alpine pastures of Montana, and the weathered architecture of Colorado. His scenes are self-determined, painted with no destination in mind. “I choose subjects other people might overlook,” he says.

“And when I put it into the square of the canvas, it becomes something else. It takes on a life of its own.” Each canvas is created according to its own will and wayfinding, unbound by geographic or artistic expectation. As long as they arrive somewhere interesting—a composition charged with visual discovery—Sanders feels content.

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A Place In the Pines Oil on panel | 60 x 60 inches Enquire

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Border Oil on panel | 40 x 60 inches Enquire

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Under the Winter Sky Oil on panel | 48 x 48 inches Enquire

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Free Parking Oil on panel | 18 x 36 inches Enquire

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Beginnings No. 1 Oil on panel | 10 x 10 inches Enquire

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Beginnings No. 2 Oil on panel | 10 x 10 inches Enquire

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Beginnings No. 3 Oil on panel | 10 x 10 inches Enquire

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Paradise Oil on panel | 18 x 17 inches Enquire

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Stringtown Oil on panel | 10 x 10 inches Enquire

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The Visitor Oil on panel | 10 x 11 inches Enquire

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Woodruff Oil on panel | 17 x 18 inches Enquire

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Grandpa’s Truck Oil on panel | 18 x 36 inches Enquire

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Sentinel Oil on panel | 48 x 48 inches Enquire

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Roofline And Sky No. 1 Oil on panel | 10 x 11 inches Enquire

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Roofline And Sky No. 2 Oil on panel | 10 x 11 inches Enquire

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Roofline And Sky No. 3 Oil on panel | 10 x 11 inches Enquire

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Roofline And Sky No. 4 Oil on panel | 10 x 11 inches Enquire

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Roofline And Sky No. 5 Oil on panel | 10 x 11 inches Enquire

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Alpine Composition Oil on panel | 60 x 33 inches Enquire

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