Isaac AlaridPease

My abstract expressionist, New Southwest landscapes are inspired by the visual, auditory, and textural complexities of living in multicultural rural and urban environments; trash strewn streets, graffiti gracing the decrepit surfaces of worn out and sun-bleached buildings, quiet moments in the mountains, dramatic sunsets and glorious skies. My works, with their sunset palettes and playful marks are often balanced by contemplative undertones, which result in paintings that are intuitive, visceral and process driven. They are inextricable from personal experience and from place. They reflect living in the space between land and sky in the high desert southwest.