Meadowlark Posters and Objects compressed

compressed

Hopper firmly considered himself an “Abstract Expressionist and action painter by nature

It explores the psyche of conflict – from the primal tribalism of paint and feathers through the ideal of the chivalrous warrior to the scientific clinicality of triggers and switches

“Il Giardino” is a series that is born as self-analysis

having spent time with its curators and its collection

Meadowlark Posters and Objects compressedTo make the pictures in Meadowlark, Ian Bates spent years driving the vast, sparsely populated spaces of the American West, often sleeping in his car. This is a project borne of both passion and patience, and though Bates was initially inspired by the Western Meadowlarkstate bird of North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Kansas, and Nebraskathe bird ultimately proved elusive, and appears here only once, as a crude facsimile painted on a weathered