CLYDE ASPEVIG
BORN
1951, Rudyard, Montana
EDUCATION
Montana State University-Billings
AFFILIATIONS
National Arts Club, NYC
AWARDS & HONORS
Honored Guest Artist, C. M. Russell Auction, Great Falls, MT
Robert Lougheed Memorial Award Prix de West Invitational, Oklahoma City, OK
Red Smith Award, Western Visions Miniature Show, National Museum of
Wildlife Art Jackson, WY
Alumni of the Year Award Montana State University- Billings, MT
Juror's Choice Award, Buffalo Bill Historical Center Cody, WY
Prix de West Award, Prix de West Invitational, Oklahoma City, OK
Frederic Remington Award National Academy of Western Art, Oklahoma City, OK
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
American Artist
Art of the West
Big Sky Journal
Southwest Art
REPRESENTED BY
Juniper Ridge Studios
The Trespass Trail
Clyde Aspevig
40" x 50" Oil on Canvas
Private Collection
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The image resolves from deliberative yet intuitive process of the artist seeing nature, undistorted by the filters of acculturation.
Subject matter is of prime consideration here. Further contemplation of the painting eventually yields its subtle nuances of texture and rhythm.
Each painting is a struggle and a journey for the artist, the destination a prolonged feast of discovery for the viewer. While his mastery of the medium is apparent, the desire of the artist is that technique shall never override the painting's essential concept.
His own physical and spiritual connection with the subject's place and time emerges on the canvas, a transformation intended to be savored as long as the work exists."
"To this artist, painting expresses human emotions better than any other medium. The divine nature of light reveals to the receptive eye the timeless interaction of landforms and sky, water, flora, soil and rock.
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