Alpine Lake Triptych

Detail of one of the three canvases that form this triptych of nearly identical paintings.

Installation photographs by Shawn Long

2008
25 x 40
oil on canvas

available individually from Rake Art Gallery

$1,200.00

A Pair of Pairs, The New View!

Rock and Reflection
35 x 35
oil on canves 2002
1 of 2

Still Life Rocks
35 x 35
oil on canvas 2008
1 of 2

These images, mostly painted this past January were executed as a pair of diptychs where the canvases in each represented nearly identical images. As the work was being arranged for installation, I realized that by placing the two different images together and stacked vertically with the "Rock Still Life" painting as the lower image, I had a new diptych configuration that utilized the two separate images to create a single scene. Happy accident and lucky discovery. The pair of pairs worked as a very effective installation.

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Thirteen Stones

As promised, here is Thirteen Stones in it''s entirety.

40 X 65
oil on canvas
2008

$3,500.00

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The Frozen Lake

The alpine story begins here.. Many of the high lakes in the Sierra Nevadas remain frozen over until mid to late summer, depending on how heavy the snowfall was the previous winter. Frigid looking scenes like this unfold before the traveler on warm afternoons when the order of the day is a sweat soaked t-shirt and short pants. Snow melt from the high elevations feed streams and creeks all through the summer and provide sight and sounds wherever you travel, as well as an occaisional difficult water crossing through stiff currents and over slippery rocks.

45 x 45
oil on canvas
2003

$1,500.00

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Spring Thaw

In the beginning, there were 10 stretcher bars constructed in 1988 of various sizes that were to be painted illustrations for a narrative surrounding the life cycle of a single leaf on a tree in the woods, through the complete seasonal cycle. Tree in winter was the first painting, begun in 1988 but put away due to the impracticality of trying to work with messy and toxic mediums in the living quarters of an inqusitive toddler. In 1990, and living in a different apartment where I had a single car garage to work in as a studio, I made an attempt to complete the Winter Tree painting, and moved on to this canvas. This work shows the same scene, but is focused on the rocks and stream close and to the left of the trees lower trunk, where the early spring thaw has allowed a small stream to flow again. I only lived at that apartment long enough to complete these two paintings, and as mentioned in my earlier post, I reworked the original painting yet again when I began working in my current studio here in Portland. I never returned to my narrative series about the leaf on the tree, and used the remaining stretchers for the other work that I made beginning in 2002 when my current studio became usable. These two canvases are a reminder of that ambitious project, and this image is a direct forerunner to my current interest in depicting the streams and lake shorelines of the alpine environs of the mountains that mean so much to me.

1990
oil on canvas
44 x 31

$1,200.00

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Tree in Winter

This was a project begun in 1988 with a toddler in the house and no good area to work in, re-visited in 1990, and finally completed in 2003. At one time there had been a bird hopping through the snow.

40 x 45
oil on canvas
$1,200.00 un framed + shipping
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The Calm at the Top

2007
oil on canvas
44 x 75

$3,500.00

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