"Because he works in the vernacular of realism, viewers look for verisimilitude in Daniel Sprick's work, as if his paintings were a mirror of reality. The more we dwell on his paintings, however, the more we become aware that they are anything but a part of our world, and are, instead, poetic renditions of his own making"--Timothy J. Standring
This book, the first devoted entirely to Daniel Sprick's work, accompanies a solo exhibition of recent work at the Denver Art Museum. In addition to full-page plates of nearly fifty paintings, mostly portraits, the publication features an essay by Timothy J. Standring that describes Sprick's painting process in detail.

Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

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Rosie Sandifer documents the evolution of the artist's career as both painter and sculptor, from painting portraits, genre, and landscape to sculpting tabletop and public monuments. The painting collection includes pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and oils, and depicts her ventures throughout the American West as well as international travels. Her sculptures have narrative qualities and can be viewed at installations nationally. 
Rather than a catalog of Sandifer's figures, this book includes the stories behind the sculptures--why they were created and their unique installations. Sandifer's life-size and monumental clay originals and the works in progress in her studio and at the foundry are displayed, and the clay-to-bronze process is described step-by-step.
Robin Salmon observes that Sandifer sculpts the mundane, elevating it to a special level in her slice-of-life depictions. Tuck Langland sums up her work as, "portraying the joy of life, revealing a perspective which is in stark contrast to those artists who see only misery, pain, and suffering." He acknowledges her unusual life as a hybrid artist. "While most sculptors draw, few are serious about painting. This straddling the world of two and three dimensions is rare." It is her language of art.

Rosie Sandifer: Language of Art

Sandifer, Rosie

History & Criticism

"To view from where Sam Scott stands is to see the spiritual in all things. In every touch of his brush on the canvas . . . Scott has serious intent. Each day as an artist is felt and considered; every new work containing the attention to each moment lived there. Sam Scott is and always has been a painter in pursuit of beauty."--Jennifer Doran
 In Encounters with Beauty, Sam Scott's writings, excerpted from his journals, come from an artist's contemplative perspective. His thoughts offer insights and wisdom that he has gleaned over the last thirty years in Santa Fe. As a pursuer of beauty, he offers the reader a unique opportunity to look inside the artist's struggle in the pursuit of beauty and art, and its importance in our personal lives.
 "We seem to need art now, more than ever before, to do what it always has done, which is to get our singular, internal, and imaginative responses to our world out into the world. . . . During the forty-plus years of his life as a painter, while so much of the art world has turned to the cold severities of the conceptual and the analytic, Sam Scott has remained committed to an art that is sensual and synthesizing. Now, as art seems increasingly determined to become what Peter Plagens calls 'the putatively transgressive arm of the fashion and entertainment industry,' Sam Scott makes his case for the primal place of art. He wants to remind us of the delicate balance that must be maintained in the relationship of art and life."--from William Peterson's Introduction

Encounters with Beauty: Excerpts from an Artist's Journal, 1963-2006

Scott, Sam

Humanlandscapes is a special fusion of talent by physician and photographer P. Miller and poet Peter Crane, producing a lyrical and unabashed tribute to the human body, beauty, the feminine, and the natural world. The core of the book is comprised of images of the body in many different Southwestern settings as well as in the studio, and in both color and black-and-white. The oversized book allows the images to be presented elegantly and each to be paired with a poem specifically written for it, setting the tone and expanding the mood. Humanlandscapes is divided into four sections, each addressing a different aspect of the human experience.The images come from an awareness of the human body to the spiritual and natural forces surrounding it. What is the character of the feminine, and what does it mean to be human? The images and poetry lead us through a journey of discovery to celebrate both the physical and spiritual parts of the self. This unique book brings together rich images and text in a tapestry of visual and emotional rewards.

Humanlandscapes: Interpreting the Human Form

Cane, Peter

Photography & Video

Poetry, art, and art history mingle in the crucible of James E. Dammann's new book, The Opaque Decanter: Words to the Music of Painting. The resulting alchemy creates an intensely evocative, you-are-there experience that transports the reader straight into the world portrayed in each of the paintings in the book, most of which are instantly recognizable masterpieces by such artists as Van Gogh, Picasso, Goya, and Manet.
Dammann's poetry is robust and masculine, yet is presented with subtlety and wit. Here is a brand new structure that is fine poetry, classic prose, succinct and witty art history, and a wise, unique viewpoint, all rolled up together and integrated and streamlined into its own form. Standing in the Musée d'Orsay or making sketches in a sidewalk café on the streets of Montmartre, Dammann is a regular guy with a thoroughly contemporary mind who uses art and poetry as a means of inhabiting the imaginative world of the artists who made those environs great.

The Opaque Decanter: Words to the Music of Painting

Dammann, James E.

"Sam Scott is and always has been a painter in pursuit of Beauty. This is an uncomfortable phrase to the cynical, but Scott's beauty resides only at great depths. It is hard-won and tentative. It emerges for this artist from the shadows as well as by the light of his noon Santa Fe sky. When he leaves the comfort of home, working in ways that are new to him, Scott travels well and freely. He generously reveals to us with his mark how it went and who he met along the way. 
"Acknowledging teachers in his past, Philip Guston, in quirky line and bold form, Nathan Olivera's figural stance and Clyfford Still, the impossible task-master, Sam Scott cherishes their presence in his life and work. He will never forget. But Scott alone paints with such a generous heart and truth in his own unique mark, that if one is lucky enough to experience both the artist and his work, it becomes vastly clear that Camus was right."--Jennifer Doran, Robischon Gallery, Denver

Sam Scott: Drawings, Watercolors, Oil Paintings (New Mexico Artist)

Edwards, Jim

Peterson, William

Since the late 1970s, crop circles have been appearing in grain fields all across the globe, but especially in Southern England. These large graphic designs are created through the contrast between the light-catching, flattened grain, swirled to the ground, and the darker grain left standing in the fields. The beauty of the art can be seen in its entirety from the air, and such space-filling, dynamic patterns are evidence that creative, intelligent CircleMakers are intentionally marking the Earth. But why they do it and who they are remain mysteries. In Crop Circles, Mary Nelson speculates on possible answers to these questions.
Nelson takes the view that crop circles are a new art form. The record of civilization can be read through a study of art history. Today, CircleMakers are using land as a canvas. She asks, what do crop circles reveal about our own period? Are these huge artworks alerting us to increase our awareness, to follow an elevated path, more spiritual and less material, more in harmony and less adversarial, more of a circle than a box, so that humanity can at last fulfill its evolutionary destiny instead of destroying itself?
In Crop Circles Nelson combines the viewpoint of an art historian with that of artist and seeker to probe the connection between the crop formations and developments in contemporary thought.
 There is also a special hardcover edition available with a linen slipcase and accompanied by original artwork by Mary Carroll Nelson.

Crop Circles: An Art of our Time

NELSON, MARY CARROLL

The ancient Egyptians dedicated special temples to the sacred art of dreaming. Today, the world's shamans and elders encourage humanity to imagine the world that we want to see emerge, to dream into reality, healing, balance, and peace. Taos artist Kimberly Webber's paintings are meditations on the sacred vision of dreams, on the mystery, power, and magic of the natural world, and on the realms of the archetypes that reside in our collective super-consciousness. Webber's oil paintings are created with a merging of traditional Asian and classic European schools of painting. The completed paintings are seventy to one hundred layers of pure earth pigment, subtle color washes, and delicate oil glazes. Traditional materials such as vine charcoal, powdered mineral and earth pigments, ink and handmade oil formulas are used to produce paintings that are luminous, multidimensional, and light interactive. Webber prefers natural elements for their superior practical applications as well as for their metaphysical properties. The process is an alchemical blending of materials, light, and intent. Touching Earth invites the viewer to discover recent works in beautiful, full-color plates with insightful writings by the artist.Kimberly Webber's paintings are exhibited and collected internationally.

Touching Earth: The Paintings of Kimberly Webber

Amin, Omnia

Roseta Santiago is a storyteller. At first glance seeming to be impressionistic realism, Santiago's compositions venture far beyond the simple fruit-and-bowl tableaux that so many still life artists pursue. She focuses instead on the world of an earlier time, creating stories on canvas told by objects ranging from ancient Native American pottery and baskets to Asian sculpture and woodblock prints; from bird nests and eggshells to bleached deer antlers found in the mountains of the Southwest.
Santiago's stunning still life work exhibits the mastery and precision of an artist who has spent a lifetime as an oil painter. Conversations in Paint Language is a deep look into our inner selves through the eyes of Roseta Santiago.

Conversations in Paint Language: The Art of Roseta Santiago

Saar, Bob

Since the late 1970s, crop circles have been appearing in grain fields all across the globe, but especially in Southern England. These large graphic designs are created through the contrast between the light-catching, flattened grain, swirled to the ground, and the darker grain left standing in the fields. The beauty of the art can be seen in its entirety from the air, and such space-filling, dynamic patterns are evidence that creative, intelligent CircleMakers are intentionally marking the Earth. But why they do it and who they are remain mysteries. In Crop Circles, Mary Nelson speculates on possible answers to these questions.Nelson takes the view that crop circles are a new art form. The record of civilization can be read through a study of art history. Today, CircleMakers are using land as a canvas. She asks, what do crop circles reveal about our own period? Are these huge artworks alerting us to increase our awareness, to follow an elevated path, more spiritual and less material, more in harmony and less adversarial, more of a circle than a box, so that humanity can at last fulfill its evolutionary destiny instead of destroying itself?In Crop Circles Nelson combines the viewpoint of an art historian with that of artist and seeker to probe the connection between the crop formations and developments in contemporary thought.There is also a special hardcover edition available with a linen slipcase and accompanied by original artwork by Mary Carroll Nelson.

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Daniel Sprick's Fictions: Recent Works

Rosie Sandifer: Language of Art

Encounters with Beauty: Excerpts from an Artist's Journal, 1963-2006

Humanlandscapes: Interpreting the Human Form

The Opaque Decanter: Words to the Music of Painting

Sam Scott: Drawings, Watercolors, Oil Paintings (New Mexico Artist)

Crop Circles: An Art of our Time

Touching Earth: The Paintings of Kimberly Webber

Conversations in Paint Language: The Art of Roseta Santiago

Crop Circles: An Art of our Time