https://www.ArtWanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=1896 This RSS feed displays the 10 most recent images that have been uploaded by to ArtWanted.com MST en-us https://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=1896&Tab=Blog Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:49:47 MST Art Collector’s Review Collector, Mr. Lee Swan Reviews Artist Dale Beckman There has been much artistic banter about how to express the unusual light of northern New Mexico. Artist Dale Beckman has, I believe, captured the true essence of this ethereal quality and given us a rare gift through his translation onto paper and canvas. At one location it may appear as minute points of energy, at another time and location he may see it as simple shapes all dancing against a piercing cerulean sky. At yet another it may hang back as if caught in the needles of the forest trees. He carries this movement into the very fiber of the soil and the physical structure of the scene and it often shimmers and sparkles from the plant life included in his work. A broad-brush classification of Dale's work might be abstract. His work certainly shows a deep understanding of form, balance and movement. But he doesn't drift off into an academic exercise... Rather he uses the distance created by abstraction to, in turn, return the scene to the observer with all the individual pieces interconnected through the common thread: the interplay of the light and the physical world of object. I don't get the feeling looking at his work that he ever dictates how a piece should be interrupted. Many of his works have no title which, to me, says that the work is still evolving and keeps the work free for my involvement as well. Only someone very confident with his delivery intentionally invites involvement from others. Just one of his pieces enlivens a room and I notice that I always stop; every time I pass by his work……great excuse to drift off to a place of beauty, if just for a moment. Mr. Lee Swan November, 2011 https://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=1896&Tab=Blog Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:45:39 MST The Orb image I use as my logo appeared in a photograph that was taken at a gallery where I was giving a talk about my work to a group of Noetic Scientists.