I first met Don Stinson when I moved to Colorado nearly twenty years ago. I felt an immediate affinity with what he was doing. Stinson’s focus was on landscape, not as scenery, nor as an artistic trope, but as a dialogue between terrain, and the society which shapes and consumes it. Mindful of history, western exploration, and influenced by the writings of J.B. Jackson, Stinson’s paintings take notice of dystopic anomalies, industrial intrusions and modern ruins. Adrift in vast deserts, or located near majestic geological formations, these byproducts of disposable culture are at once elegiac, and cautionary. What Lies Between: new works by Don Stinson is now on view at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, Colorado. Recently we caught up with one another, to talk about the exhibition.

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What Lies Between, new works by Don Stinson, will be on view through June 3rd, at David B. Smith Gallery. 1543A Wazee Street, in Denver, Colorado, 80202. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Friday 12-6pm and Saturday 12-5pm and by appointment. For more information please go to the gallery website at www.davidbsmithgallery.com. Learn more information about Don Stinson and his work at www.donstinson.com

Erratum: During the interview I misspoke, identifying Dr. Joni Kinsey (University of Iowa) as the author of a book on Albert Bierstadt, when she is the author of a definitive study of Thomas Moran, which I highly recommend to anyone concerned with the history of the American landscape.