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exhibitions

Hot Times, Cool Art: Artists Council Exhibition: Artists Center, Palm Desert, CA

Frame of Reference Fine Art Gallery, Bigfork and Whitefish, MT

California State University San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus

29 Palms Art Gallery, Differences in Common: A Contrapuntal Exploration of our American West—exhibition and artist's discussion

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Reference Location
Idaho

Red Hot Trucking

Acrylic on canvas
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2017
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30" x 40"
Painting of an orange semi truck crossing a highway overpass above a golden grassy field in Idaho, under streaky white clouds.Painting of an orange semi truck crossing a highway overpass above a golden grassy field in Idaho, under streaky white clouds.
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Motels & Roadside Signs
Idaho

An orange-and-white semi crosses a highway overpass in Idaho between grassy embankments, a small green highway sign beyond it. The foreground is a sweep of sunlit grass in yellow and green, blurred as if seen in passing, under a blue sky with long white clouds.

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