Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 2026 | 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Exhibit: March 6 - April 9, 2026
This exhibition features works by Brad Teare, an American painter known for expressive, highly textured interpretations of the Western landscape. Based in Utah’s high desert, Teare’s work is shaped by decades of direct engagement with place and sustained plein air practice.
Teare first gained national recognition through a successful career in illustration in New York, producing book covers for prominent literary figures. A pivotal encounter with the paintings of Vincent van Gogh redirected his practice toward the physical and emotional possibilities of paint. Working primarily with palette knives, he constructs layered surfaces that emphasize movement and light. His work is represented in galleries and collections across multiple states.
Influenced by early American landscape painters including William Wendt, Birger Sandzén, and Edgar Payne, Teare situates his work within a lineage that values expressive surface and formal strength. Plein air studies inform larger studio works that retain immediacy and compositional refinement. Collectively, the works reflect a contemporary engagement with the Western landscape as both a physical environment and a sustained subject of artistic inquiry.