Landscape Acrylic Paintings by Mark Gould - Lanning Gallery [Sedona Arizona]

"Zapata Creek Headwaters: Arcadian #2030" - Landscape Artwork by Mark Gould

"Zapata Creek Headwaters: Arcadian #2030"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
64" x 48" unframed

Mark Gould is perhaps best known for his gorgeous continuing series, "My Neighbor's House," a dazzling exploration of the American dream. His restless brush has also created still lifes, figure studies, and landscapes, and he recently embarked on a series of western landscapes.

Mark says each genre, each piece, offers him the chance to experiment with the five formal elements of painting: line, form, mass, texture, and color. However, signature qualities shine through in all his work: a fearless, virtuosic use of color, an expansive feeling of space and freedom, and bravura surfaces ranging from a mirror gloss to roughly built-up to rhythmically incised (to lend texture to his grass and hay).

Born and raised in the rural heartland of America, Gould recalls drawing incessantly, but without access to art classes, until he attended college. On the verge of failing his initial semester he took his first art/design class, at the end of which both he and his instructor knew art should be his major.

After graduating from the University of Iowa, Gould worked in residential construction, became a general contractor and eventually fabricated tradeshow exhibitions. As assistant manager of the traveling exhibition program at a major museum he acquired a lasting appreciation for the sacredness of the objects people made.

"Floral Landscape #2021" - Landscape Painting by Mark Gould

"Floral Landscape #2021"
Acrylic on Cradled Panel Painting
30" x 24" / 32" x 38" framed

This appreciation inspired Gould in his own art-making and in his continued studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Art Students League, and the University of New Mexico. Within three years of beginning to show his work publicly, in 1986, he gained representation by major galleries.

The last few years have been marked by extraordinary growth and fruitfulness for Gould. It's been years of daredevil experimentation, dramatic maturation, and growing recognition, as well as satisfaction in finding that his work has struck a chord in collectors and art lovers around the world.

"My Neighbor's House #872"
Acrylic on Panel Painting
18" x 24"

Gould's paintings are now held in private and public collections internationally. He has participated in numerous one-man shows and group exhibitions. In 2010 the prestigious Gilcrease Museum presented Gould with the Williams Award for best of show in painting at the annual Collectors' Reserve invitational exhibition. In 2014 Gould was invited to participate in Tucson's Mountain Oyster Club's 45th Annual Contemporary Western Art Show & Sale.

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"My Neighbor's House #933"
Acrylic on Panel Painting
24" x 18"

"Moonrise Arcadian #2023" - Landscape Artwork by Mark Gould

"Moonrise Arcadian #2023"
Acrylic on Cradled Panel Painting
24" x 24" / 25" x 25" framed

"El Salto: Arcadian #2012" - Landscape Scenary by Mark Gould

"El Salto: Arcadian #2012"
Acrylic on Cradled Panel Painting
24" x 24" unframed

"Costilla Wild Horses II: Ranchlands #996" - Western Horse Scene by Mark Gould

"Costilla Wild Horses II: Ranchlands #996"
Acrylic on Panel Painting
24" x 24"

"Duo: Ranchlands #983" - Horse Landscape Scenes by Mark Gould

"Duo: Ranchlands #983"
Acrylic on Panel Painting
24" x 36"
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"My Neighbor's House #2025"
Acrylic on Cradled Panel Painting
12" x 15" / 13.5" x 16.5" framed

"Moonlight Begins Coppice #2008"
Acrylic on Panel Painting
22" x 28" / 32" x 38" framed

"My Neighbor's House #2029"
Acrylic on Panel Painting
24" x 36" / 32" x 44" framed

"Light and Mist #998"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
30" x 24" wrap

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