Western Art Collector – August 2019

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UPCOMING SHOW

Up to 20 works

Aug. 9-Sept. 12, 2019

The Owings Gallery

120 E. Marcy Street

Santa Fe, NM 87501

(505) 982-6244

http://www.owingsgallery.com

SHOW LOCATION SANTA FE, NM

B

etween 4 and 8 million years ago

volcanoes dotted the landscape of the

Colorado Plateau, now part of the Navajo

Reservation. Worn down by erosion, their

remains are still awesome and inspirational.

Ed Mell portrays the buttes of the region in his

nearly 7-foot-wide canvas, Dilkon Vastness.

It is included in an exhibition of his recent

paintings at Owings Gallery in Santa Fe, New

Mexico, August 9 through September 12.

A love of automobile design led Mell to the

Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles

to study illustration and advertising. Despite

a successful career in advertising in New

York, two summers teaching silk-screening

and drawing on the Hopi Reservation had a

profound impact on him. He recalls, “Spending

months in that beauty right after being in the

city was the catalyst that changed my artistic

direction.” He turned to painting the landscapes

of the Southwest in which he was born.

Mell approaches his subject in a pared-

down naturalistic style as well as a dynamic

Black Desert Mesa, oil, 11 x 14"

Nature’s Theater, oil, 24 x 24"

Canyon Monolith, oil, 22 x 28"