Fractures: a series of oil paintings by Tuck Contreras

for featured artist
Tuck Contreras

OIL PAINTINGS:

The River

Horizons
(a series of 10 paintings)

Oaks & Sky

Sunset on the Klickitats

Looking East from The Dalles

Clouds & Oaks

* Fractures
(a series of 9 paintings)

Greene with Blue Line

The Greene See

Boy with Sunset and the Sand

Sandstone and Tide

Historic Solana Beach

Storm Clouds off OB

project: Fractures

No. II in the series, Fractures. Oil painting on canvas, 26 x 15 in.

Fractures is a series of 9 oil paintings on canvas. Tuck painted the series during the period March through September 2005, and Fractures was on exhibition at The Dalles Art Center that same year.

The series explores the colors and textures of the exposed basalt in the Columbia River Gorge.

Tuck describes her inspiration as follows: “I am a person of extremes. And I have found the Columbia River Gorge a place of extremes. From its early beginnings of volcanic upheaval and continuing evolution, the exposed basalt is fractured and weathered. The edges appear sharp as razors in one outcropping, smooth as glass in another; yet another form of the basalt is rounded and pitted. ¶ I have found in my work of recording these fantastic rocks a symbol of how I see the natural world: dynamic, changing, and beautiful. ¶ With my series, fractures, I have tried to paint this landscape, in all its power and wonder.”

OTHER PAINTINGS IN THE SERIES, FRACTURES:

No. I in the series, Fractures. Oil painting on canvas, 24 x 16 in.

No. III in the series, Fractures. Oil painting on canvas, 19.625 x 11.125 in.

No. IV in the series, Fractures. Oil painting on canvas, 24 x 36 in.

Mount Adams (No. V in the series, Fractures). Oil painting on canvas, 15 x 12.25 in.

No. VI in the series, Fractures. Oil painting on canvas, 17 x 24 in.

No. VII in the series, Fractures. Oil painting on canvas, 33 x 12 in. Painted in June 2005, this is still Tuck’s favorite work in the series.

No. VIII in the series, Fractures. Oil painting on canvas, 28 x 16 in.

No. IX in the series, Fractures. Oil painting on canvas, 48 x 24 in. (approximate).

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