An Upcoming Exhibition in Jackson, WY at Altamira

My Exhibition at Altamira Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming is SEPTEMBER 7, 5-8PM

27 AUGUST - 8 SEPTEMBER 2018 JACKSON

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Altamira Fine Art Jackson is pleased to present new work from Bradford Overton in an exhibition opening August 27, 2018.

Meet the Artist September 7th from 5-8pm during the Fall Arts Festival kick-off event, Palettes and Palates.

In this body of work tiny western archetypes loom large. Richly colored, vintage toys float on simple gray backgrounds. Shadows move across a gray plain and highly detailed cowboys and indians run across what we can only imagine to be mesas and canyons in pursuit of, or fleeing from, a scene which we cannot see.

Relying on raw skill, color, composition, and the inherent beauty of the objects he's painted, Overton's paintings call on the playfulness and sense of humor of the viewer, to be the player, playing. They also draw on Overton's earliest inspirations, his childhood fantasies of running freely through the landscape with his greatest heroes, the indians and cowboys who made the west what it is and who still enchant our minds with memories of what was.

For my upcoming show at Julie Nester Gallery in Park City, UT

This piece will be in my January 26th show at Julie Nester Gallery.  If you're in Park City, UT some see it in person. 

Another Summer Solo Exhibition in Jackson, Wyoming

This will be my first show at Altamira Fine Art in Jackson, Wyoming.  The opening reception is Thursday, August 3, 5:30-7:30pm.  Come see me. 

Approaching the Divine: Sacred Images and Spirit Animals

Images from my solo exhibition at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico June 30 - July 15, entitled Approaching the Divine: Sacred Images and Spirit Animals

Nazareno

oil and resin on panel, 60
 x 60
 

Daytrippers

oil and resin on panel, 46" x 28
 

Gethsemane II

oil and resin on panel, 60" x 60"

Cat's Cradle

oil on canvas, 36" x 36"

Super Nova Virgin of Guadalupe

oil on canvas, 72" x 48"

Nazareno, detail

What it comes down to is your taste.

What you like, what pleases you, what you make or would make, pay attention to, love, embrace as good or beautiful or worthy of your time, money, further use of, meditation on, is what you value. You've made a choice from the ones before you. You have exalted some aspect of phenomena, form, for a specific combination of qualities you responded to intellectually and emotionally. (Try and separate them). You've cast you're vote for the world you want.

As Hume argues, taste is a moral issue. 

THE EMPEROR OF WYOMING  

40"x40", oil on canvas, 2017

Drawn to Greatness

Here are two pieces that will be a part of the group show, "Drawn to Greatness"  Saturday September 17th at Arcadia Gallery in Culver City, CA.  If you're in the area, check it out! 

Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word, graphite & mixed media on Belgian linen on panel,  14" x 32"

All by Myself, graphite & mixed media on birch panel, 20" x 20"

Changes

In art and life we face changes. We either move into change gracefully or we resist. A canoe metaphor, paddling along with the current, responding to it, and making subtle and skillfull adjustents applies. That's how to deal with a forceful and changing current. But where is it taking us? What's up ahead? Our feelings about these questions will determine not only our anxiety level but will actually create what it is we will discover down stream! If we decide that change is good and canoeing is fun and trust ourselves to navigate fast water, and more, if we trust creation and creativity, (the water itself), then what we will find up ahead will be what we have hoped for, dreamed, created. 

In my painting I like change; a new studio, a new canvas, a new concept.  I like risk, aligned with curiosity. when I get to try something I've always wanted to do but was uncertain of what the outcome would be I feel excited. Gathering confidence by acquiring skills over many years, (failing at so many paintings!) I have learned to handle new subjects and concepts gracefully. And I'm able to make the paintings I paint, equal to their original mental image. 

So don't fear change. Embrace it! Navigate it enthusiastically! It's going to bring you what you create.

Painting in progress, OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL MOTION

Riding the Storm out

Back from Santa Fe for only three weeks and I've got three new paintings underway. This one is nearing completion! 

Riding the Storm out. 

24"x24" , commissioned painting.