Translations Gallery artist Jim Pittman has work in the Denver Art Museum

Translations Gallery's current exhibition of work by Jim Pittman and Mark Bowles is getting a lot of attention from both the press and the general public. Both artists create large scale, abstract, minimalist landscape paintings.

These too esteemed artists both have work in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum. While Bowles' piece, Intersection was recently acquired by the museum in 2009, Pittman's piece, Marble Canyon was accepted into the permanent collection in 2003. The museum stated "that the painting Marble Canyon was timeless and a perfect fit for them as it could be exhibited in either the contemporary or western collections" (from Denver Art Museum Press Release 12/03).

Translations Gallery is proud to display Jim Pittman and Mark Bowles together through the month of September. All work is for sale.

Image: Jim Pittman, Marble Canyon, acrylic on canvas, 54"w x 48"h

New Artist Cheryl Dietz Joins Translations Gallery

We are proud to announce that Cheryl Dietz is now a represented artist at Translations Gallery. In Cheryl Dietz’s work, orientation is not a rule. Her contemporary landscapes involve overlapping transparent images and multiple viewpoints. Invisible boundaries, transient exchanges, and the spaces in-between ordinary life intermingle with the textures of the Southwestern landscape and encroaching urban life. What is built, what grows, what is felt and what is imagined are all combined to express an environment of disruption and unpredictability. Dietz is interested in movements out of proportion, possibilities of unstable equilibrium and interpretations that are not to be found by simple observation. Cheryl is from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Translations Gallery currently has Cheryl's work on view. Her amazing 8ft x 8ft piece titled Midnight Burn will be on view for the month of October.

Image: Cheryl Dietz, Haughty Mangle, 36"w x 30"h, oil on canvas

We're a Best Bet in this Week's Denver Post

Denver Post Art Critic Kyle MacMillan chose our current exhibition, Mark Bowles and Jim Pittman as one of this week's Best Bets for Entertainment in Denver. Kyle noted that Mark Bowles is an emerging name in the Denver market. The Denver Art Museum recently accepted one of Bowles' pieces into their permanent collection.

Director of the Denver Art Museum's Petrie Institute for Western American Art, Thomas B. Smith states about Bowles' work, "Mark Bowles’ color fields celebrate the simplicity of the western landscape. He does not labor over specific locations but instead composes studio rendered impressions that have seared his consciousness and reflect the symbolic essence of place. His use of color and aesthetic nuances creates an intimate dialogue in which the viewer equally shares his delight for painting.”

Mark Bowles is showing alongside Boulder, Colorado artist Jim Pittman, who celebrates the Southwest landscape. While Mark Bowles is inspired by the plains, Jim Pittman is inspired by canyons, kivas, and other land forms that are present in the Southwest.

Images: (top) Mark Bowles, A Change of Seasons, 60"w x 48"h, acrylic on canvas
(bottom) Jim Pittman, Kiva, 60"w x 72"h, acrylic on canvas