2018 Brad Price Exhibition Catalog

Brad Price Enchanted Expressions

Brad Price Enchanted Expressions

November 2-9, 2018

on the cover: Golondrinas

Chapel

40x30 oil

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

The bold brushstrokes and colors in expressionist works by Brad Price are inspired by the Southwest landscape and its rugged beauty. His work is a rebirth of the sense of style of early Taos painters and the Post-Impressionists. His works in oil are emotive and colorful with strong directional lines that he employs to guide the viewer into the world that he has seen and experienced.

Through painting Brad Price makes an emotional visit to the scene he is painting. He experiences again what it was like to be there. He can smell the chamisa and hear the waxy clacking of the aspen leaves as they blow in the wind. He can once again enjoy the breeze as it comes down from the mountains. When he paints, he is there. When he hangs a painting on the wall, he invites others to be there with him. The amazing landscape of Northern New Mexico is his primary focus. The light in New Mexico has a luminescent quality all its own, and Price seeks to capture its effects on canvas. His style emphasizes contrast and bold complementary color. His paintings are a total experience placed on canvas. According to Price, “Art is experience and the sharing of experience. It is creating something new and beautiful for the world, and then sharing that moment with others.”

An award-winning illustrator and graphic designer, Price exhibits his works in various galleries in the Southwestern US. During the Oklahoma Bi-centennial his works were exhibited at the Oklahoma State Capital. His work has been on the cover of Santa Fe Circle Magazine. In 2012, Mayor David Coss of Santa Fe, chose one of his paintings for the cover of the Centennial Issue of the Santa Fe Visitor’s Guide.

Fall Chamisa

40x30 oil

Known as “The Land of Enchantment,” New Mexico’s harsh desert beauty has inspired artists for decades with its magical light, infinite sky and captivating color palette. Oklahoma painter Brad Price is similarly infatuated with New Mexico, particularly the northern region, which has been the focus of his work for the past three decades and is naturally the subject for his solo show, “Enchanted Expressions.”

“It is the tortured beauty of the area,” he says when asked about his fascination with the southwest landscape.

San Miguel

16x20 oil

Cactus Flower

40x30 oil

“When you look at the twisted pines, the crooked cottonwoods, the eroded landscape, you feel that it has survived through adversity. The whole place looks incredibly wise, like it knows more than you do, like it could tell you some amazing stories about pain and survival.�

-Brad Price

Rio Grande Village

40x30 oil

Black Mesa Chamisa

30x24 oil

Brad Price lives in central Oklahoma but travels to Santa Fe four to five times a year to witness seasonal shifts and the subsequent effects on land and light. With a camera in hand and sketchbook in his pocket, Brad Price documents and absorbs his experiences in nature, which he later releases onto canvas back in his Oklahoma studio.

While we often recognize familiar landmarks in his work such as Ranchos de Taos or the Rio Chama, we experience them in new and exciting ways through Price’s dynamic perspective and distinct painting style. Meandering strokes of unblended color give life and feeling to stoic mountains, swaying grasses or swift moving water.

Price’s rich and exaggerated color palette heightens the land’s emotional impact and elevates New Mexico’s natural vibrancy. Trees cast purple shadows on adobe walls while chamisa bushes glow turquoise under an evening sky.

Arroyo Seco Chapel

16x20 oil

Cottonwood Valley

16x12 oil

Taos Irises

30x24 oil

Cerrillos

30x40 oil

Feliz Navidad

10x8 oil

Rio Hondo

30x24 oil

Price’s artistic inspiration is rooted in his admiration for southwest artists, from the early Taos founders to more recent painters such as Robert Daughters or William Hook. Perhaps his most evident mentors, however, are the Post-Impressionists. Price’s latest body of work for “Enchanted Expressions,” pays particular homage to the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. In “Ranchos Irises,” Van Gogh’s favored flowers bloom from the foreground while the iconic Ranchos de Taos and Sangre de Cristo Mountains fill the background. “I have long had a desire to use Van Gogh’s motifs in a southwestern setting,” says Price of his attempt to combine his most prominent influences.

Ranchos Irises

36x48 oil

Taos Chamisa

20x16 oil

Cerrillos

16x20 oil

Backlit Cottonwoods

20x16 oil

This meshing of the Post-Impressionist vision with northern New Mexico’s magnetism is evident throughout Price’s show. His new series of paintings reflects the artist’s adventures in Taos, Ghost Ranch and more recognizable northern New Mexico locations while also embodying the emotional mindset and abstract tendencies of artists like Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin. Price’s Meyer Gallery show opens just one week before Small Works, Great Wonders® at Oklahoma City’s National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Brad Price was honored by the invitation to exhibit at this year’s prestigious show and sale, which brings together the nation’s finest traditional and modern western artists.

Shadow Over Black Mesa

24x30 oil

Fall at Black Mesa

30x40 oil

Abiquiu Chapel

11x14 oil

Bell Gate Hollyhocks

36x24 oil

Golondrinas Morada

30x40 oil

Golondrinas Shade

24x30 oil

Fence Row Chamisa

11x14 oil

Moonlit Chapel

20x16 oil

Placita Chapel

30x24 oil

Taos Morada

30x40 oil

Chamisa Fire

24x30 oil

Chama River

24x30 oil

Bell Gate

30x40 oil

The Pueblo

11x14 oil

Morada and Chamisa

16x20 oil

Brad Price Enchanted Expressions Abiquiu Chapel Arroyo Seco Chapel Backlit Cottonwoods Bell Gate Bell Gate Hollyhocks Black Mesa Chamisa Cactus Flower Cerrillos Cerrillos Chama River Chamisa Fire Cottonwood Valley Fall at Black Mesa Fall Chamisa Feliz Navidad Fence Row Chamisa Golondrinas Chapel Golondrinas Morada Golondrinas Shade Hopeful Horizon Moonlit Chapel Morada and Chamisa Placita Chapel Ranchos Irises Rio Grande Village Rio Hondo San Miguel Shadow Over Black Mesa Taos Chamisa Taos Irises Taos Morada The Pueblo

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Brad Price Enchanted Expressions Education BFA University of Oklahoma MTS Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Selected One Man Exhibitions Taos Museum of Art Meyer Gallery, Santa Fe Art Exchange Gallery, On the plaza, Santa Fe Firehouse Art Center, Oklahoma MSB Gallery, Oklahoma Santa Fe Art Depot, Oklahoma The Chapel of the Arts, Oklahoma Cloudcroft Gallery, Cloudcroft New Mexico Gallery III, Oklahoma Wind River Gallery, Oklahoma Santa Fe Arts Festival, Norman, Oklahoma Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia, South America Unicentro, Cali, Colombia, South America Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, South America Selected Collections Private Collection, Senator Altamirano, NM Private Collection, Senator Bingaman, NM Lectures and Workshops Workshop in Alla Prima painting, Oklahoma Workshop on “Painting like Van Gogh” Drawing Course in Istanbul, Turkey Drawing Course in Morocco Drawing Course in Oklahoma Art Workshop, Cali, Colombia, South America Art Workshop, Medellin, Colombia, South America Art Workshop", Bogota, Colombia, South America Art Workshop, Panama City, Panama, Central America 15 week drawing course, Cali, Colombia, South America Taught “Art and the Church," Colombia, South America Taught “Art and the Church," Theological Seminary, USA

Hopeful Horizon

Brad Price Enchanted Expressions November 2-9, 2017

Opening Reception Friday, November 2, 2017 5 to 7pm

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

8x10 oil