Andrea Kowch, "Courtiers," 2016, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 60 inches, RJD Gallery
by Kelly Compton
Look up toward the sky, or out of your window. Chances are good you will spy a bird soon enough. Though some humans share their homes with birds, all people are surrounded by these feathered creatures, and, though we may not regularly acknowledge it, out world would be a quieter, duller place without them. In this section, we highlight the broad array of birds depicted by a flock of artists in recent years. Many of these images transcend description or charm to underscore the more profound, even symbolist, meanings that we humans has assigned to birds over the centuries.
Michael Dicker, “Babel,” 2016, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 inchesWill Hemsley, “Descent (edition of 15),” 2009, bronze, 7 x 4 x 4 ft.Kat Houseman, “Red Sun Wren,” 2016, oil and copper leaf on canvas, 12 x 12 inchesAnni Crouter, “Spooked,” 2015, watercolor on paper, 19 x 24 inchesMichael Dumas, “High Summer (Yellow Warbler),” 2015, oil on birch, 7 x 5 inchesRob Rey, “Bioluminescence IV,” 2016, oil on board, 18 x 24 inchesPaul Rhymer, “Rant and Skeptic (edition of 25),” 2013, bronze, wood and steel, 72 x 40 x 24 inchesShawn Gould, “Aspen Embrace,” 2017, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 inchesKent Ullberg, “Mind and Passion,” 2016, bronze and stainless steel,” 26-1/2 x 17-1/2 x 6 inchesEzra Tucker, “American Kestrel,” 2016, acrylic on board, 11 x 15 inchesTerry Miller, “Preserve and Protect,” 2013, graphite on board, 7-3/4 x 18 inchesCarol Guzman, “Crabapple Pie,” 2016, oil on linen on board, 11 x 14 inchesThomas Broadbent, “Feeding Birds 2,” 2012, watercolor on papJacob A. Pfeiffer, “Full Spectrum,” 2015, oil on panel, 8 x 22 inchesMary Alayne Thomas, “The Reader,” 2016, encaustic on board, 10 x 10 inchesKathryn Mapes Turner, “Lady,” 2012, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inchesRyan D. Jacque, “End of Summer,” 2005, pencil on paper, 15 x 18 inchesJan Stommes, “Moving On,” 2017, oil on canvas, 3 x 4 ft.Sarah Lamb, “A Brace of Quail,” 2012, oil on linen, 22 x 20 inchesBrad Woodfin, “Frédéric,” 2016, oil on panel, 16 x 12 inchesAnn Moeller Stevenson, “Above the Storm,” 2017, oil on aluminum panel, 14 x 11 inchesHelena van Emmerik-finn, “3 Geese,” 2017, pastel on paper, 20 x 12 inchesBen Steele, “Poe’s Crows,” 2014, oil on canvas, 44 x 34 inchesStanka Kordic, “Truth and Knowledge,” 2015, oil on aluminum, 12 x 12 inchesMark Eberhard, “Red Tail Hawk,” 2017, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inchesBart Walter, “The Critics,” 2007, bronze, 41 x 61 x 34 inchesEllen Fuller, “Sandhill Cranes,” 2015, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 72 inches
This is an excerpt from “Avian Art Takes Flight”. Find the full article in the September / October 2017 Edition of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.
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Jhenna Quinn Lewis’s work with birds is stellar and she has a show at the Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe on the 17th-30th of December.
https://www.meyergalleries.com/show/meyer-gallery-jhenna-quinn-lewis