Roadside Landscapes

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 11, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00am - 5:30pm, Saturday: 11:00am - 5:30pm
Public Contact: 310-657-9843

Koplin Gallery is please to announce our fifth exhibition of the work of David Hines.

In his most recent body of work, David Hines has created oil paintings that depict cultivated farmlands and rural areas bisected by highways. Hines forms a tension between the quiet beauty of the rolling pastures and the penetrating, stark sky. Human figures are absent from Hines' works, yet their presence is implied by the marks left on the land. These works freeze the evanescent gaze of the outsiders that pass through these lands without attachment or reflection. Lush yet haunting, Hines' technical mastery endows these natural landscapes with a sense of foreboding mystery.

In "Mojave Highway", a two lane highway stretches into the far off dusk. The tonality of the sky reflects the setting sun as it fades into the pure blue atmosphere. The only signs of inhabitants are a barren one story house and shed inset from the road. Surrounding the house are fields of warm, billowy grasses that are luminous with the dwindling light of early evening. Hines evokes a scenario of contemplation and reclusiveness, where man's relationship with the earth is characterized by temporal and ascetic sustenance.

David Hines received his M.A. and B.F.A. in Painting from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He has been included in a number of important group shows including "Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art" that traveled through the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA. to the the Art Museum of South Texas at Corpus Christi, and the Laguna Museum of Art in Laguna Beach, CA.