Randy Bacon

Dusty crossroads, wide-open skies, and peacefully nestled buildings distinguish Randy Bacon's paintings of West Texas and New Mexico.  His long, horizontal canvases, like calm, lingering sighs, echo the vast, extended horizon of the Southwest region. These scenes, which are defined more by architectural and geographic features than by human characters, reminisce over farm roads and forgotten towns tucked into the rural fabric of the Western frontier.  Many of Bacon's sites attest to arrested development in their dichotomous layers of past expansion and present desolation.  Although human figures compose a minimal, if not altogether nonexistent, visual component of Bacon's paintings, human activity is etched in the a...