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The Intimate Landscape: New Paintings by Thomas Munterich
The Intimate Landscape: New Paintings by Thomas Munterich
Locust Grove, 2683 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
April 16,2010 – May 15-2010 Opening reception April 23, 2010 5-7pm
Biography
Thomas Munterich received his BFA from the Hartford Art School where he studied drawing, photography, painting and printmaking. He received his MFA in Printmaking from the University at Albany. Strongly grounded in both traditional and contemporary approaches to art-making, Munterich has recently begun interpreting landscapes in oil. He is interested in creating a feeling of luminous depth at a very small scale, with most paintings measuring less than 3 square inches. These HYPERLINK "http://thomasmunterich.blogspot.com/"works are inspired by or directly quoting great landscape artists such as Corot, Constable, and Inness. While strikingly small, his landscape paintings convey a feeling of intimacy and detail that is surprising in it’s resonance.
Artist’s Statement
I have spent my life in the mountains and rivers of New York and New England. My relationship to these works is both one of nostalgia and deference. Most of the places where I fly fish or hike have not changed much in the past 100 years, so these are not sentimental representations of a bygone landscape from the past. These places still exist, no doubt through consistent efforts of conservation groups like the Hudson Valley’s own Scenic Hudson. My tribute to artists like George Inness and Thomas Cole is a type of conservation, a re-view of traditional landscape painting. The surprisingly small scale of these works makes us experience them differently than the originals. It encourages a close examination, an intimate exchange between the viewer and the artwork. While the spatial illusion is retained, it competes with the surface play of the brushwork. I intend for these paintings to offer a moment of reflection on natural beauty and an artist’s attempts to commemorate it.
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