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statement
Vernacular and historic architecture along with landscape are the vehicles I use to convey isolation and otherness. Representational yet surreal, the paintings inhabit a twilight zone between reality and imagination. Abstracting the images to various degrees further incorporates a sense of mystery allowing them to read as symbolic structures--as portals or refuges.
influences & favorites
Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Georgia O'Keeffe
bio
Trish Booth was born in Hillsboro, Oregon in 1955, but spent her youth on her family’s wheat and cattle ranch near Highwood, Montana. She obtained a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1988 and remained in the Bay Area until re-locating to New Mexico in 2007.
Booth works in a regionalist style with life in the American Southwest dominating her oeuvre. She has exhibited in many venues in the Bay Area including the Esteban Sabar Gallery in Oakland. She is included in an exhibition at the Booth Western Art Museum titled 21st Century Regionalism: Art of the New West running from 12/22/2007 to 4/13/2008.
Booth’s work was featured on the cover of Art Calendar magazine and she has a painting in the permanent collection of “Menopause the Musical.” She founded the Ghost Pony Gallery in Truchas, New Mexico in 2007 and is currently the Gallery Director.
She describes her work as “Representational yet surreal, inhabiting a twilight zone between reality and imagination.” The prices for her works ranges from about $600.00 to $6400.00. She lives with her husband, Leonardo Pieterse, also an accomplished artist, in an adobe in Truchas, New Mexico.
on the nightstand
Auspicious Autumn, Ghost Pony Gallery, Truchas, NM, September 1 through November 4, 2007
21st Century Regionalism: Art of the New West, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA, December 22, 2007 through April 13, 2008
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