Owens Valley

Artist Patricia Chidlaw (born 1952)

Date2017

MediumOil on linen

Dimensions20 x 50 in. (50.8 x 127 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection

Object number2018.108

DescriptionSanta Barbara-based urban realist Chidlaw’s spacious, cleanly defined, atmospheric works are amalgams of time and space. The artist states, “When asked what kind of paintings I make, I usually call my work ‘Urban Landscapes’ to distinguish them as paintings about areas of human habitation rather than landscapes that reference the natural world. But my subjects are certainly not all urban. And while I often treat older architectural forms, I want to make it clear these are not paintings about nostalgia – all are contemporary scenes, recently observed. I've painted a number of pictures which seem neither urban nor rural but are set in that particular non-space that now covers so much of the landscape – the limbo of freeway exits and on-ramps and their attendant fast-food franchises.”

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