Contemporary Taos Artist and Taos Icon, painter, Art James West - Art West and Beyond - a.k.a. Alan Heuer, Southwest Art, Santa Fe, Taos, High Road to Taos

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Hey Art, I really am liking your work! I am a big fan of the

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and while you might get sick to death of being compared to them, I'll just say your work fits well in the logical progression that would follow without mimicking them. I'm going to enjoy following your Facebook posts.

-- Larry Neel, Facebook Fan Page, April 2013

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Art James West - Art West and Beyond

Contemporary Taos Artist, Santa Fe, High Road to Taos

Original, contemporary Taos artist and Taos Icon following in the tradition of the Taos School by representational expressionist artist and painter Art James West - Art West and Beyond, a.k.a. Alan Heuer, painter of the southwest, New Mexico, Taos, High Road to Taos, Santa Fe, historical, southwest art, western art, commissions, fine art prints and original oil paintings for sale.

ABOUT

Contemporary Taos artist and painter, Arthur James West a.k.a. Alan Heuer came to Taos, New Mexico in 2000 to immerse himself in the Taos art scene and develop his own style. In just a short time he has established himself as a contemporary of the original Taos School and is now recognized as a Taos Icon. In 2006 Art won the Taos Fall Arts Festival "Taos Invites Taos" (now the Taos Select) for best representational painting the first time he entered.

In 2010, Art moved his studio from Taos to Santa Cruz in Espanola, along the High Road to Taos. On any given day you may see him wandering the backroads near Taos and Santa Fe looking for reference material. In the Spring he likes to bring his easel into Taos and paint on Taos Plaza next to his gallery, Sage Fine Art. More ...

STATEMENT - Representational Expressionism and Inversionism

"I'm more of a representational expressionist than a realist and recently have been identified as an inversionist. Although inversionism is a term still being defined by the artists who work with it, I rather like it and think it helps describe my not quite traditional painting style.

"The website "Inversionism" describes inversionism to some extent, as an escape from reality and manifestation of an imaginary realm, to moments on the event horizon, not quite real, but not fantasy either, something which is simultaneously inherent of the actual reality and infinitely distant from it, a kind of "counter-essence". Technically, inversionism can effect any potential characteristic of an image such as color, composition, or its element, its form, and even content.

"For me New Mexico manifests inversionism -- the Land of Enchantment, The City Different, magical realism at the edge of the Rockies and the Southwest, a place where the light and shadow shift constantly, with four distinct seasons, where the old and new are in decay at the same time, where we are on the edge of new and old civilizations -- Los Alamos and the bomb, Taos and the Tewa Pueblo. Inversion drew me to paint in the first place, to capture and describe something instantly and almost beyond words, of things on the edge of change -- whether real or imagined -- crescent moons, shadow vs. brilliant sunlight, dreams vs reality, or urban vs. rural, things that are too fleeting to paint "in plein air". I constantly explore the reality around me looking for "event horizons", for the joy that lies beyond." More ...

EXHIBITIONS

2012
• Juror and Invited Artist, Rio Grande Art Association's (RGAA) 10th annual oil and acrylic painting show �ENCANTADA! 2012 Albuquerque

• Invited Artist, "Taos Contemporary", Denver Center for Visual Arts. His painting, "Monsoons" used for publicity.

• Invited Artist, Millicent Rodgers Miniature Show. His painting "Red Truck in Ranchos" used for publicity.

• Featured Artist, Sage Fine Art Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

2011
• Invited Artist, Hearts and Stars, Wilder Nightingale Gallery