Mike Glier
Bird Song at the Acequia2019, oil on aluminum panel, 32"x40"
Stream Crossing on the Columbine Trail: Carson Forest, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 11"x14"
Two House Finches in the Aspen Trees: Taos, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 20"x30"
The Sound of House Finch Nestlings Begging: Tesuque, New Mexico2019, oil on arches oil paper, varnished and mounted on hardboard, 12"x16"
Jackrabbit in the Columbine: Tesuque, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 11"x14"
Poison Berries: Lama New Mexico2019, oil on Arches oil paper, varnished and mounted on hardboard, 12"x16"
Evening: Tesuque, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 11"x14"
Ponderosa Pine Studies2019, oil on hardboard, each 16" x 12"
Morning Sun: Santa Fe Canyon, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 11"x14"
Crow Talk in Tesuque Canyon: New Mexico2019, oil on aluminum panel, 32"x40"
Arroyo Walk: Santa Fe, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 11"x14"
It Heard a Growl: Santa Fe Canyon, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 11"x14"
Quiet: Lama, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 11"x14"
Joy Arriving: East Fork Jemez River, New Mexico2019, oil on hardboard, 24"x36"
Installation ViewGerald Peters Gallery Santa Fe, NM

Mike Glier is a peripatetic artist whose work describes an exchange with the natural world.  Working “en plein air”, his recent paintings incorporate sound, touch, smell and taste as well as sight to record the complex experience of being in the New Mexico landscape. For this exhibition, Bird Songs of the Acequias, his sixth with the Gallery, Glier visualizes the smell of Juniper trees; the chatter of birds; the growl of a bear; the roar of the wind; and the profound babble of water flowing through acequias in the Santa Fe and Taos regions. His attempts to record sensory experiences that are not visual result in unexpected shapes, fresh color chords and surprising compositions that slip easily between representational and abstract styles. 

Selection from the press release for Bird Songs of the Acequias, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, 2019.

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