Laguna Art Museum
Timed Auction

43rd Annual California Cool Art Auction

Sat, Feb 15, 2025 12:00PM EST - Sun, Mar 2, 2025 12:30AM EST
Lot 110

Desert Sojourn #11 by Robert Redding

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Robert Redding

Desert Sojourn #11 

2024

Acrylic and oil on canvas

12 x 30 in.

Courtesy of the artist

 

About Artwork: America has a long tradition of landscape painters. In the mid 19th century painters in the Hudson River School imbued their landscape painting with the symbolism of America's promised prosperity. Their work celebrated the country's vision of Manifest Destiny, two hundred years later I see a different America. California, the Golden State, is where I live and it is my subject. The purposefully eye-level view of the composition is meant to envelop one, inviting them to walk into the work.  They are meant to be seen as one peers out at the vastness of the landscape or the people in it. I chose to depict the presence of nature with man-made elements pushing into it.  I hope to capture the evolution of the land over the past centuries, our misuse of it, and the spaces created that possess elements of society's fringe or "outsider" presence. My choice of painting, not photography is an important one, my interest is not straight documentation. I believe painting allows a search for an emotional connection to the subject, with the hope the final image becomes a memorable one for the viewer.

About Artist: Robert Redding is an Orange County, California based painter. He graduated from Cal State Fullerton with BFA in Painting and Photography.  After a short time as a graphic designer he made a career as a print and textile designer in the surf/skate clothing industry. It was during this time he witnessed first-hand the myth and evolution "California Dream". Robert now depicts the dichotomy of California life in its land and people with his work. He currently has a full-time painting practice with a studio in San Juan Capistrano, CA. His work is included in private and corporate collections.

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