Opening July 7 at Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt, Colorado, is the two-artist show Perspectives. The title is fitting since landscapes will be shown from two unique points of view by painters Dan Young and Andy Taylor. Young’s work is more representational, while Taylor’s work is looser and more abstract. Both show landscapes in the West.
Dan Young, Road to Town, oil on panel, 24 x 30"For Young, he is doing the show as a tribute to gallery owner Ann Korologos, who died in January. “This show is sort of a tribute show for me. Ann wasn’t from Colorado but had a long-time connection with it and had spent summers here for many years. I plan to create paintings that I think will hopefully represent that connection,” Young says. “I plan to spend some time painting around her home in Sopris Mountain Ranch near Basalt, Colorado. I have painted her neighborhood many times, but I have never painted the actual view of Mount Sopris from her backyard, so that is definitely one of the ideas I hope to develop into a larger piece.”
Andy Taylor, Three Times, oil on linen, 37 x 50"
For his work Road to Town, Young was inspired by a setting near his own studio. “I have observed this scene many times and also photographed it in every season. I did a field study of the scene earlier in the year before the leaves had returned to the cottonwoods,” he says. “I was fairly pleased with the painting but decided it needed a stronger value pattern to slow the viewer as they move through the painting. The road was an obvious directional device, but I felt it took you through the painting too quickly. When I returned to the scene about a month later, I noticed the dark values and shapes of the cottonwoods could be used as elements for the viewer to stop and hold their attention for a brief moment as they moved through the painting. I did a second study and felt it definitely was a more interesting painting. I did a lot of editing and moving of elements to simplify from the actual scene. For me it’s so important to make a painting and not copy exactly what is in front of me.” —
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