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statement
The process of painting begins for me in the rationalization of thoughts, ideas and occasionally dreams. Sketching these sometimes fleeting ideas allows me to engage the process of thinking, and begin to give structure and form to these thoughts. A portion of these sketches make it to the easel. It is in the process of painting that I really get to explore an idea and what its content means to me.
The substance of my work revolves around a central theme, humanity. I enjoy exploring ideas and theories of human behaviour and evolution, the ways in which we impact and react to others, our environment, and ourselves, and the past present and future of our species. Painting allows me the freedom to explore this range of ideas through the use of metaphors, abstraction, and geometry
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inclusion
2002 O'Niell's Uptown, Albuquerque, NM
2002 O'Niell's Pub, Albuquerque, NM
2000 "New Era Art" 516 Magnifico Artspace, Albuquerque, NM
2000 "Scratch and Sniff Show" Room 222 Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
1999 "Emerging Artists" Limner Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Texas and Neighbors" Irving Art Center, Irving, TX
1998 "Magnifico: Art of Albuquerque" Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1996 "Artists Exhibition" John Summers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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exhibition
2001 "Common" Exhibit/208, Albuquerque, NM - solo
1999 Asylum Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1998 "A Glimps at Ourselves" R.B.Winnings Café, Albuquerque, NM - solo
1997 Rising Sun Gallery, Madrid, NM
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publication
2001-2005 Color illustrations of native New Mexico fishes. Contracted by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.
2000-2001 B/W scientific illustrations of Thamnophis eques Complex of Mexico, by R. Conant, American Museum of Natural History #3406.
1999 "Buyers Direct Magazine" Slowart Productions, New York,NY (spring and fall editions).
1998 Brochure of Endangered Fishes in the Pecos River, NM. Contracted by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.
1997 Twenty-three illustrations for "Threatened and Endangered Fishes of New Mexico". Contracted by New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.
1996 Illustrations of Notropis simus simus for "Environmental Biology of Fishes", 46:382
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all images © w. howard brandenburg - 2000-2004