The Art of Charles Muench Newsletter 

 Spring 2016

 


 

Bodie_ CA
 
30" x 36" | oil on linen
Wood, rusted machinery, and bricks, stand in defiance of time and elements in the ghost town of Bodie, CA.
CONVERSATIONS WITH LAND AND SKY SHOW


  

"I was toting my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca road
 
When along came a semi with a high canvas covered load
If your goin' to Winnemucca, Mack with me you can ride
And so I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside
He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand
And I said, 'Listen! I've traveled every road in this here land!'"
 -Goeff Mack/Hank Snow (the Johnny Cash version)

Painting is my passion. Both the gothic shapes of the Eastern Sierra and the endless horizon of the Nevada High Desert inspire and inform my work. My paintings are the result of a synesthetic dialog with the landscape. I cannot help but hear the colors of the high desert in the mid-summer sun, smell the grandeur of the Sierra peaks rising above the alpine autumn twilight, and touch the expanse of vast, open spaces on a cold, winter evening. The weight of rusted machinery settling into the land, the quaking of aspen leaves vibrating across infinite undulations of Nevada's Jarbidge wilderness, the creaking rusted relics of western ghost towns- these sensations fuel my passion.

These experiences are the impetus for a show I have created:

CONVERSATIONS WITH LAND AND SKY
June 3rd - 4th, 2016
At the historic ballroom in the Brewery Arts Center, Carson City, NV.
Reception: June 3rd, 4:00 - 8:00pm
June 4th,  11:00am - 5:00pm

Here is a link to a recent radio interview where I talk about this show, my art, and my artistic journey:

Thanks again for your interest in my art.

Charles 
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Lake Tahoe
40" x 30"" | oil on linen
East shore waters after a spring snow storm.
CONVERSATIONS WITH LAND AND SKY SHOW

Carson Valley
24" x 32" | oil on linen
Looking towards Jobs Peak and Carson Valley after some good spring rains.
CONVERSATIONS WITH LAND AND SKY SHOW

Desert Relic
9" x 16" | oil on linen
Rusted rembrance from another time, another journey, near Middlegate Station, NV.
CONVERSATIONS WITH LAND AND SKY SHOW

Jarbidge Wilderness
22" x 28" | oil on linen
Autumn in the true west- vast expanses of open public land in the Jarbidge Wilderness of Nevada.
CONVERSATIONS WITH LAND AND SKY SHOW


Lone Pine
12" x 16" | oil on linen
SMALL PAINTINGS OF GRANDEUR
Galerie Gabrie, Pasadena, CA.
May 4th - June 18th 
 
RECENT SALES 
From Here to There- Burr Trail
"From Here to There- Burr Trail"
30" x 40" | oil on linen
SOLD
"Into the Land of Giants"
30" x 36" | oil on linen
SOLD
 

 

To see a complete selection of available paintings, please visit my website:

WWW.CHARLESMUENCH.COM

775 265 4454

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