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Garrett Middaugh
Texas Stream 30" x 30" Oil on Canvas Landscape American Realist Water & Stones

2019

$3,000
£2,275.38
€2,725.33
CA$4,319.69
A$4,419.67
CHF 2,506.98
MX$56,650.88
NOK 28,749.88
SEK 29,966.62
DKK 20,372.08

About the Item

Texas Stream 30" x 30" Oil on Canvas Landscape American Realist Water & Stones by Garrett Middaugh. The painting is gallery wrapped so need for a frame. Texas Stream depicts on of Texas' most popular landscapes in the style of Realist painting. The artist use the natural beauty of Texas as scenes for his Realist paintings. The artist brings us deep into the painting Texas Stream. Almost an escape from the world. The artist is a regional Texas landscape painter working in oils and pastels whose subject matter varies from the mountains and desert of west Texas to the wetlands along the Texas coast, with a strong focus on Texas forests and trees. The artist is in corporate and private collections around the world. Garrett Middaugh is a native Texas artist who obtained his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been painting professionally for some 40 years, beginning in the mid 1980s in post-modern narrative figuration primarily influenced by surrealist philosophy. He first showed with the Patrick Gallery (now closed) in Austin, and his work garnered attention at the time when he won Juror's Choice and Best of Show awards in local and statewide exhibitions. In 1990 he changed directions, however, realizing a preference for pure realism, focusing on landscape. In the early '90s he began showing at the Harris gallery in Houston, where he remained until its closing in 2016. Working in oils, acrylics and pastels, he painted Texas landscapes in a photo/hyper realist style, most often depicting its forests and flora. His paintings in this vein can be found in many corporate and private collections throughout the state and nationally. He achieved some recognition as a pastel artist, winning several awards in pastel competitions, including Best of Show in the Pastel Society of America's annual exhibition in New York City in 2004. In recent years Middaugh has returned to a more expressive style, utilizing surrealism/figuration/abstraction to generate imagery that, informed by the philosophy of Absurdism, is essentially meaningless. "I'm kind of embracing absurdism, in my old age," Garrett states, " exploring my imagination following this principle. I don't predetermine the course of a painting with sketches, etc., I may reference photos but I don't copy them, I make everything up as I go along, it's pretty intuitive. I look for ways to negate any 'meaning' or narrative that starts to develop, for ways to distort or deconstruct any reality that tries to infiltrate. I want to be able to inject 'nonsense' into my paintings. I view the structures of reality and meaning as crutches that limit the imagination, although I still enjoy, every once in a while, the technical challenge of realist painting."
  • Creator:
    Garrett Middaugh (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2019
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Houston, TX
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1405218766882

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