Douglas Fryer: Moments

D o u g l a s Fry er Moments

D o u g l a s Fry er Moments December 3 - 16, 2021

Meyer Gallery 225 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.983.1434 800.779.7387 www.meyergalleries.com

Douglas Fryer presents a new collection of richly textured, subtly abstracted landscape and still life paintings. The Utah artist uses a variety of tools, techniques and media to create poetic works that inspire contemplation and reflection. His solo exhibition, “Moments,” opens on December 3rd with an artist reception from 5-7pm at the gallery. All artwork is also viewable online at meyergalleries.com.

“I continue to explore the process of breaking down the subject, then building the composition around an interpretive or inventive concept as opposed to a simple representation,” says Fryer of his latest work. “The work begins with an emotional response to the subject and is developed through multiple processes, materials, and tools I may use. My hope is that the resulting content is a metaphysical concept rather than only a creation of a likeness of the subject.”

Fryer’s paintings represent a frame of mind, mood or emotion rather than a specific location or physical landmark. Merging remembered and invented memories, his paintings provide a sensation of moving through time with blurred foregrounds or layered vantage points. Fryer believes that “works of art are evidence of the artist’s effort to experience and comprehend the world, and to observe particular nuances in visual, conceptual and spiritual information.”

Fryer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois as well as California. Fryer ultimately returned to Utah where he received his BFA and MFA from Brigham Young University in Provo. This year is a personal milestone for Fryer, marking 40 years since he began his studies as an artist at BYU in 1981. Fryer’s work now hangs in private and public collections across the country, and he has taught painting at several schools and universities including BYU, the University of Hartford in Hartford Connecticut, and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. He currently lives with his family in Spring City, Utah.

Summ er St o rm, Du sk o i l

12 x 24

Farm Pond, Dece mb e r

oil

8 x 8

Recedi ng Snows, M a rc h

oil

12 x 12

Appl e i n Morni n g Li g h t o i l

8 x 8

Whi speri ng Gra sse s

oil

11 x 11

Pat chwork M ea d o w

oil

11 x 7

Beneat h a S i l ve r S ky

oil

12 x 12

St udy of T h ree P e a rs

oil

10 x 10

Dri vi ng Past a Far m i n t h e E v en i n g

oil

13.5 x 30

Wi nt er Mi st s Bey o n d t h e Ced a rs

oil

10 x 10

St udy of Two S ma l l P e a rs

oil

8 x 8

Sout h Breeze Th ro u g h M ea d o w

oil 12x 27

Int o Th e S u n

oil

24 x 24

Wi nt er S o l st i ce

oil

18 x 36

Fal l i ng P et a l s

oil

18 x 18

In Sum mer s P a st

oil

18 x 18

Hi l l si d e B a rn

oil

18 x 36

Aut umn E a rt h

oil

11 . 5 x 2 0

Price List Summer St orm , Dusk

oil

12x24

$5,500

Far m Pond, D ecember

oil

8x8

$2,800

R eceding Snows, March

oil

12x12

$3,400

Apple in Morni ng Li ght

oil

8x8

$2,800

W his pering G rasses

oil

11 x 11

$3,200

Patchw ork Meadow

oil

11 x 7

$2,900

Beneath a Sl i ver Sky

oil

12x12

$3,400

Study of T hree Pears

oil

10x10

$3,000

D riving P a s t a Fa r m in th e E v e n i ng

oil

13.5x30

$6,700

Winter Mi st s Beyond t he Ced a rs

oil

10x10

$3,000

Study of Two Sm al l Pears

oil

8x8

$2,800

South Breeze Through Mead o w

oil

12x27

$6,400

Into The Sun

oil

24x24

$7,800

Winter Sol st i ce

oil

18x36

$8,200

Falling Pedal s

oil

18x18

$6,400

I n Summ ers Past

oil

18x18

$6,400

Hills ide Barn

oil

18x36

$8,200

Autumn Eart h

oil

11 . 5 x 2 0

$4,900

Meyer Gallery

225 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.983.1434 800.779.7387 www.meyergalleries.com