One of Colorado's most influential artists.
Collection Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Denver
“He was able to translate his totally unique, idiosyncratic visions by massively employing four different media,” Grant says, listing watercolors, oils, tempera and casein. “He transferred these visions into paintings. He developed 37 series in five major periods during his career of 55 years. Quite extraordinary."
Painted before the space race — much less any Hubble images — Kirkland relied on his own imagination to create the dazzling series, in which oils fold over watercolors and impasto is tempered by the intricate, deliberate dots. Grant notes that for these paintings, “he developed three unique textures that had never been seen in art before.”
“Chris had asked me to redo the core collection list of Kirkland’s paintings, which means that we try and decide on paintings we absolutely, hopefully never have to sell unless we just get an enormous amount of money,” Grant recalls. “I kept running across these paintings that had no explosion at the middle of his explosion series. I had noticed only two before."
“The ‘Forms’ paintings have no explosion, but they are incredibly charged with energy,” Grant explains. “They have congestion, spurts of energy — little dots coming out from the very complex shapes and forms. … Vance talked about the fact that they could be dissipating energy of a dying star, or building toward nuclear fusion giving birth to stars.
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