2018 Douglas Fryer Exhibition Catalog

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Revisitations

Douglas Fryer Revisitations November 16-23, 2018

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Kanab oil 16x16

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Douglas Fryer was born in Salt Lake City , Utah, and was raised in Illinois and California. In 1988 he received a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University in Provo Utah, and later returned to BYU for further study toward an MFA in Painting and Drawing, completing the degree in 1995.

Douglas has taught fine art and illustration at several universities and art schools, including BYU, The University of Hartford in Hartford Connecticut, and at The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Although he works mainly in oil, Douglas enjoys working in a variety of mediums including watercolor, printmaking, and digital. His love of landscape stems from having lived in many beautiful areas of the country, including seven years in rural Vermont, and most recently central Utah.

His personal works are moving images of places, objects and people that have simple, yet profound significance to him. He hopes that those who view his paintings will sense his love for his subjects and his pleasure in working with his materials.

Douglas Fryer’s paintings emphasize nature’s abstract elements through quick marks, loose forms and broken brushstrokes, which together form enlivened landscapes with a modern edge. Through a push-pull creative process, the artist blends, scrapes, adds and subtracts to form energetic compositions that are alive with movement yet retain a subdued and moody tone. The defined details of windblown trees or foggy mountains are smudged and smeared as Fryer aims to mimic the relative motion and abstraction of our own perception. “I want to express the idea that reality is more fluid,” he explains. “Though my eye and mind may focus on one thing in a scene, in reality all else is soft, interpenetrating in motion.”

Edge of an English Village oil 6x9.5

Bright Morning, Sevier River oil 22x30

Douglas Fryer’s paintings are under constant revision in the studio; an entire composition can be redirected with a single mark as the artist is guided and misguided by his intuitive and painterly process. “Each painting finds new life and shifting identity with each iteration,” he says. Through his solo show, “Revisitations” Fryer contemplates the elusive route he takes to arrive at a completed painting.

Twin Silos oil 8x8

Yellow Grass oil 12x24

Turns on the Sevier River, Winter oil 7x12

“I find myself obsessively rendering light and form with relatively small and broken strokes, only to take another brush or knife to broaden, simplify or soften the edges or transitions,” he says. “This goes on day after day, back and forth, until the painting begins to express the idea of infinite variety within a deliberate mode of unification of design.”

-Douglas Fryer

River Thaw, February oil 12x12

Meadow monotype 8x12

For this year’s show, the majority of Fryer’s exhibition paintings are smaller works that call for intimate interaction. “I feel quite attached to even the smallest of paintings and have a close connection to them,” explains Fryer. “Even the seemingly least significant work can inspire feelings of awe as well as intimacy.”

Autumn Poplar oil 6x9.5

Kanab oil 16x16

Ranch on Canyon Road oil 10x20

Mountain Pasture oil 8x8

Mountain Storm (reprise) oil 18x18

Farmland, Northern New Mexico monotype 8x12

Storm and Sunlight oil 10x20

Highway Farm oil 8x14

Dark Waters, Winter oil 16x16

Irish Farmland, North Coast oil 7x12

Grazing in Tall Summer Grasses oil 8x12

Mill Near Sheepscombe oil 12x24

Landscape in Yellow and Gold oil 8x8

Spring City Barnyard in Twilight monotype 8x12

Dusk oil 12x27

Douglas Fryer

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Revisitations

Autumn Poplar Bright Morning, Sevier River Dark Waters, Winter Dusk Edge of an English Village Farmland, Northern New Mexico Grazing in Tall Summer Grasses Highway Farm Irish Farmland, North Coast Kanab Landscape in Yellow and Gold Meadow Mill Near Sheepscombe Mountain Pasture Mountain Storm (reprise) Patch of Sunlight Ranch on Canyon Road River Thaw, February Spring City Barnyard in Twilight Storm and Sunlight Turns on the Sevier River, Winter Twin Silos Yellow Grass

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6x9.5 22x30 16x16 12x27 6x9.5 8x12 8x12 8x14 7x12 16x16 8x8 8x12 12x24 8x8 18x18 6x7 10x20 12x12 8x12 10x20 7x12 8x8 12x24

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Patch of Sunlight 6x7 oil

Douglas Fryer

Revisitations

November 16-23, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, November 16, 2018 | 5 to 7pm

225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico | 505.983.1434 | www.MeyerGalleries.com | meyersfnm@aol.com