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James Cook

February 3, 2007—March 6, 2007

Nationally recognized for his painterly, impasto oil on linen paintings that capture mountains, rivers, hillsides, cliff-faces, evergreens, and aspens. Cook’s grasp of abstract composition and color theory elevates his work beyond sheer landscape. A lone yellow aspen on a steep hillside full of blue pine trees is a function of composition – a pure play of color normally reserved for abstract expressionists – but as the viewer steps away from the canvas the vigorous marks of oil paint focus into well-observed, powerful scenes of the Western landscape.

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