John Fincher's "Recent Works" at the LewAllen Gallery in Santa Fe

Written by Quentin Farmer Thursday, 19 April 2012 22:32

Santa Fe, NM.— LewAllen Galleries is pleased to announce its "John Fincher: Recent Works". Dedicated to registering and relaying shifts in the relationship between nature and culture, John Fincher is recognized as a leading painter of our contemporary landscape. The artist’s singular aesthetic brings into dialogue a diverse range of formal strategies and art historical quotations that reflect the heterogeneity of a rapidly changing world. The exhibition will be on view from June 3rd through July 10th.

Celebrating personal idiosyncrasy and the increasingly global outlook of contemporary art, Fincher revels in unexpected but internally consistent visual logics informed by such seemingly incompatible traditions as the taut outlines of German Expressionism, the fragmentary views and pronounced frontality of Song Dynasty landscape painting, and the visual quips of American Pop Art.

Born in Hamilton, Texas, in 1941, John Fincher earned his MFA from the University of Oklahoma in 1966. The artist’s works have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and important group shows at venues including SITE Santa Fe, the Aspen Art Museum, and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. His work resides in major public institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, and the New Mexico Museum of Art.

LewAllen Galleries is one of the oldest and largest galleries of leading contemporary and modern art outside of New York City. Exhibiting in three locations, LewAllen is widely respected as one of the leading fine art venues in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the nation's second largest art market. Operating for more than 35 years on Palace Avenue near the New Mexico Museum of Art, the gallery maintains a robust show schedule each year in its 11,000 square feet of museum-like exhibition space. It has recently completed a stunning 14,000 square foot, architecturally forward new gallery building in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District. LewAllen also operates a satellite gallery at the luxurious Encantado Resort by Auberge in Tesuque, north of the City of Santa Fe.

The Contemporary Division features work in a variety of media and its artists represent many schools of contemporary art, including Realist, Pop, Abstract, Color Field, Minimalist, Op, Geometric Abstraction and Expressionist. Its internationally diverse roster includes such noted artists as Audrey Flack, Woody Gwyn, Judy Chicago, John Fincher, Emily Mason, Bernard Chaet, Robert Natkin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Forrest Moses, Hiroshi Yamano, Janet Fish, Ed Mieczkowski and Bill Barrett, among others. During its history, the gallery has also presented the work of such historically notable artists as Fritz Scholder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Colescott, Luis Jimenez, Ida Kohlmeyer, Thornton Dial, Donald Roller Wilson and Larry Rivers, among many others.

The Modern Division is fortunate to represent fine collections, museums, and individuals in assisting placement in the secondary market for American and European Modernist works of distinction and unusual quality. The Department employs professional art historical resources and prides itself on diligence regarding provenance and authentication as well as unusual levels of research, and curatorial attention dedicated to presenting museum-level exhibitions of signal works of the Modern era. Representative works of uncustomary importance to major international collections include those by such Modern masters as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Renoir, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Amedeo Modigliani, among numerous others.

With collectors from around the world, the gallery utilizes state-of-the-art technology, the Internet and other forms of distance communication in helping clients build important collections. The gallery has a large following among corporations, public art spaces, museums and prominent private collectors in whose collections the works of its represented artists appear. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.lewallengalleries.com

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