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| Painter Jeff Aeling's love of landscapes developed as he traveled
throughout the United States and Europe as a child. The dramatic
landscapes of Hawaii and Colorado had the greatest impact on him.
Aeling
studied art under William McKimm at the Kansas City Art
Institute. In his early career before becoming a full-time
artist, he worked as a theatrical scene designer and owned a mural and
pattern design business creating antique finishes for architects and
interior designers. In his free time, Aeling often painted and
experimented with new mediums.
In 1996 Aeling won a Grand Arts Foundation grant that led to a solo exhibition at a gallery in Kansas City.
Though Aeling's paintings contain elements of European style they are quintessentially American.
Source:
Southwest Art Magazine, July 2002
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Biography from Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery Santa FeTucson:
| Jeff Aeling was born in 1958 in Iowa City, Iowa and currently resides
in Kansas City, Missouri. His father was an Army physician during the
1950s and 1960s so the family moved from one hot spot to another when
the Cold War dominated the American consciousness. Jeff Aeling's
connection to nature came when the family was posted in Hawaii.
In
addition to painting landscapes images at his home studio in Kansas
City, Missouri, Aeling recently concluded an exhibition that took over
two years to design and create. "The Layman's Guide to the Passage of
the Millennium" included over a hundred exquisite three-dimensional
assemblages and paintings addressing the anxieties of contemporary
culture.
Jeff Aeling's painting travels take him all over the Southwest.
He finds himself returning to particular areas that allow clear
observations of the weather, atmosphere and the unobstructed lay of the
land.
Out on location, Aeling absorbs the geography and the rich
earth colors, terra verde, ochre and reds that permeate the
landscape. Once in the studio, he paints with economy. He keeps
his brush strokes gestural, often painting at arm's length, and
applying pigments to board, he uses the smallest number of brush
strokes.
Selected Career Highlights
Education
BFA painting & printmaking
Kansas City Art Institute, Art Institute Chicago
Awards
Lowick House of Printmaking Grant, Lowick, United Kingdom
Autumnal Fund Grant, Kansas City Art Institute
Margaret Hall-Silva Sculpture Foundation Grant
Collections
Sprint
Johnson National Bank, Racine, WI
St. Regis Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Rennaisance Grand Hotel, St. Louis, MO
Boyd Collection, Johnson Wax
Johnson Collection, Johnson Wax
Hall-Silva Collection, Hallmark
Hall-Marshall Collection, Hallmark
Ronald Dunn, Brooks and Dunn
Kathleen Collins, President, Kansas City Art Institute
American Century Investments
Gates Rubber Company
Wilmington Trust Company
D. S. T. Systems
Exeter Oil Company
Johnson County Community College
Charles Schwab
Selected Bibliography
Southwest Art, July 2002
New American Paintings, August 1998
Kansas City Star, July 1998
Santa Fe New Mexican, July 1998, Jeff Aeling: The Essentials of Landscape
St. Louis Post Dispatch, March 1998
Dialogue Magazine, February 1998
Southwest Art, January 1998, What's New in the Santa Fe Galleries
Focus Santa Fe, January 1998, Searching for Essentials
NYU Press, September 1997, Peter Von Ziegasars Essays "Apocalyptic Art Since 1970" in The Year
2000: Essays on the End.
St. Louis Post Dispatch, March 1997
Kansas City Star, November 1996
Kansas City Star, May 1993
Museum Collections
Beach Museum, Manhattan, KS
Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
Museum of the West, Tucson, AZ |
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