"Weedtree and Goldenrod"
Monotype
18" x 22"
by Rod Bouc

"Through my post graduate days of experimentation, my work quickly evolved from abstracted landscapes to non-objective mark making and field painting. The challenge became how to apply the paint and charcoal in interesting ways. I made the inevitable connection to the mark making and action painting of the New York School.

"Several years after graduate school, I had a renewed interest in depicting the land and sky. Regionalists influenced me less stylistically than philosophically. Unlike Benton, Wood and Curry, I knew the Midwest intimately. I farmed for my entire youth and into my early 20's. I grew up with the idea of making art about the landscape that was around me, but my painting had changed to the non-objective.

"Slowly I moved to representational depiction, incorporating much of the mark making, treatment of materials, and composition of my abstract days. In this way I achieve a new synthesis in my work of representation and the vigor of mark making." -Rod Bouc

Learn more at www.rodbouc.com

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