For this exhibition, the artist depicts the prairie views near his Northfield home as well as sweeping views of the Mayo countryside in Ireland where he completed his fellowship last summer. Painted with heavy impasto, Wykes structures his paintings with palette knife scrapes, introducing rhythmic lines and facets of lively color into his compositions. This contemporary approach to the genre of landscape paintings gives Wykes’ images a unique aesthetic, one that is rooted strongly in the gesture of drawing and reveals the energy inherent in quiet, rural vistas.
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