The Barn @ Downing Yudain is pleased to present Mike Glier: An Open Season. The exhibition features over fifty works with over thirty Field Studies by the renowned artist, Mike Glier. The exhibition catalogue, which is viewable online, has an insightful essay by the noted scholar Valerie Ann Leeds and includes images and descriptions of all the works.
Link to catalogue: Mike Glier: An Open Season
The exhibition focuses on Mike Glier’s in depth view of his natural surroundings. The Field Sketches are made en plein air, using all his senses to hear, taste and see the atmosphere which results in fully realized moment.
Through a series of interviews, Valerie Ann Leeds wrote the following regarding Glier’s
process:
The Field Notes are reliant on form in their origin in the natural world, yet, they are suggestive and abstracted. It is color, however, that defines these compositions—bottomless and immersive color—the sweeping richly toned swathes of pigment often appear incandescent.
Mike Glier describes the work in his own words:
I begin each plein air work by sitting quietly, with the senses open, to survey all of the
experiences of a place before creating improvisations based on sound, touch, and sight. But the title is also a hinge to another facet of these observational abstractions; an “open season” refers to a time when the living world is under sustained attack and its health and long-term viability are in question. Herein lies the complexity of these small works that are paeans to beauty in the service of environmental consciousness.
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For more information on, Mike Glier: An Open Season, please contact info@art357.com. Link to catalogue: Mike Glier: An Open Season
