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Three Edd Enders paintings were featured in the 2017 group show “A Railroad Runs Through It” at the Livingston Depot Center through September 24th, 2017 in conjunction with the Depot’s 30th Anniversary.
This show features 18 diverse artists’ multimedia interpretations of the impact and integration of the Railroad in the Livingston, Park County region. Featured artists include Jim Barrett, Marc Beaudin, Storrs Bishop, Eleanor Williams Clark, Edd Enders, Malou Flato, Doris Davis Gallagher, Sheila Hrasky, Bob Newhall, Adrienne Pollard, Parks Reece, Tandy Miles Riddle, Robert Spannring, Colleen Story, Mark Strand, David Swanson, Joe Wayne, and John Zumpano.
A special artist reception will be held June 15, 2017 at 7pm and feature music by the Park High School Jazz Band and poetry by Marc Beaudin. The evening will include light fare passed by the Sister City Cultural Exchange, and refreshments provided by Neptune’s Brewery.
Located at 200 West Park, the Depot is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. There is a nominal admission, and group visits are also welcome by special arrangement. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Depot office at (406) 222-2300.
16 Edd Enders Trees in 2016: 16% off these 16 paintings HAS ENDED and nearly all these paintings have been sold. See currently available work at the portfolio.
Edd is drawn to the personality, individuality, vibrant color and dynamic form of trees and they’re fan favorites.
Here’s a collection of 16 trees – curated and discounted 16% in 2016 – spanning eras, environments, compositions and sizes. Here is your opportunity to bring an Edd Enders tree home in 2016.
Click on any image to see larger and use the > arrow image to scroll through the collection and see more details about the sizes, years and prices.
SOLD Juniper Sunrise, 24″ x 30″
SOLD Cottonwood Branch in Wind, 2016, 18″ x 32″, with 16% discount, $1,450
Cottonwood #176, 60 x 42″
SOLD Juniper Tree Deep Creek Bench, 40″ x 60″
SOLD Cottonwood #200, 2014, 54″ x 36″
Red Tree on Corner, 2010, 60″ x 30″
SOLD Edd Pine with Purple, 2016, 66″ x 36″
SOLD Juniper #2, 18″ x 24″ at Faye’s Cafe’
SOLD Cottonwood # 180, 2011, 42″ x 30″
Cottonwood #178, 66 x 42″
Cottonwood #181, 2011, 66″ x 30″
Cottonwood #198, 2015, 32″ x 48″
SOLD Cottonwood #173 on River, 2011, 60″ x 72″
SOLD, On the Road to Find Out
SOLD Featured in the YAM 2017 Auction. Murder of Crows at Crossing
SOLD. Big Timber Church, 2001, 40″ x 52″
Contact 406.222.4848 or email buzzmemedia@gmail.com to make arrangements to see & purchase work. Check, cash, credit card or installment payments accepted but credit card payments will include an extra 3% charge to process, sale prices do not apply to installment payments, and all invoices not paid within 90 days will be assessed a 1% charge per 30 days.
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One of the things that Edd Enders captures well is the undulating backroads of Montana. To capture these vast vistas, Edd drives out to find landscapes that inspire him. He then sketches the the scene, looking for compositional angles and adding details and color notes. Back in the studio, he lays down oil paint on the canvas – referring to the sketch – using nonrepresentational colors that are complementary and adding visual elements that draw the eye like roads, powerlines, and often birds. These two new paintings inspired by Swingley road just outside of Livingston, Montana, are iconic examples of how Edd captures the freedom and unique beauty of Montana road trips. Contact 406.222.4848 to see these and other Edd paintings.
Swingley Meets Business Park Road, Stage 1
Swingley Meets Business Park Road, completed. 36″ x 66″, $7,120
When Edd feels stuck on complicated landscape or urbanscape paintings, he regularly taps into his unconscious and paints a self portrait. This 2016 painting incorporates a new element; text. The theme is aging and the passage of time. Edd has more than two dozen self portraits and they demonstrate different stages of his painting style and where he is in his life. Edd generally does not sell his self portraits.
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Edd completed a series of paintings in 2016 featuring motel signs, buildings and people inspired by the business district on West Park Street in Livingston near the overpass. He gave himself the challenge of tall, narrow canvases to work with. The night sky, signs and people smoking evoke the darker urban themes common in Enders’ cityscape paintings. This four painting series is available for exhibition or sale. Contact 406/222-4848 to make an appointment to see them in person.
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Edd has paintings up at Glenn’s Food and Spirits in Livingston at 122 North Main Street in Livingston for patrons to enjoy, and all the paintings are for sale. Poet Marc Beaudin recently was inspired by Edd’s paintings there, especially his red cottonwood trees, and shared this fine poem.
Cottonwood Red (Contemplating Edd Ender’s Paintings at Glenn’s Bar)
All his roads are going
to Somewhere called Nowhere
& you want to be traveling each one
with the windows down & the radio low
All his trees have survived
this Livingston wind
that topples semis on the Interstate
& keeps California at bay
He’s created a new color
called “cottonwood red”
that’s somewhere between
not-quite-dried crow’s blood
& the alpenglow in singing mountains
between dogwood stems in the snow
& gasoline puddles at the truckstop
between everything you desire
& everything you tried to leave behind
All his roads are skies
all his trees are stairways &
every brush stroke is loud
With the wind
of the wings
of the crow.
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Fall in Montana 2015 was exceptionally long, warm and lovely. Edd is outside every day walking his dog, hunting or fishing and most importantly; observing nature and sketching scenes that inspire him. Fall is one of Edd’s favorite seasons to paint because the deep orange of the foliage is a complementary color to Montana’s big blue skies.
Edd regularly gives himself new painting challenges and puzzles to solve and this Fall he made half a dozen very narrow rectangular canvasses. He has painted them both horizontally and vertically and the narrow strictures forced him to frame and crop scenes differently. Canvases with a narrow perspective also forced Edd to create linear movement with color contrast rather than his usual roads, fences and power lines. This painting, finished the first of November, demonstrates his unique and creative variable coloring of a Cottonwood tree to create texture, depth and contrast against the slice of background hills and sky.
Edd Enders’ artwork illustrates the inaugural publication by Livingston’s Elk River books, Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals by Marc Beaudin. The cover features an Edd Enders color painting and his black and white drawing illustrate the interior.
Edd introduces Beaudin’s book
The book, “blends travel memoir with poetry to recount the author’s hitchhiking and road trip adventures. From Central America and Britain to the American West and Midwest, the book follows in the tradition of Bashō’s haibun classics such as Narrow Road to the Deep North and Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton. Amid stories that are often humorous and sometimes harrowing, lies a strong foundation of commitment to wild spaces, freedom (in all its precariousness) and the transformative power of poetry.”
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Reviews include: “Here is a poet’s road trip, tracing the blue highways with a dazzling prose that keeps us belted in for the fast passage – a firm anchor of raven, woodlands and the fractured moon on the lake at night. We should all take strength from his impressive traverse.” – Doug Peacock, author of Grizzly Years
“Is there such a thing as free-range literature?
I think there is and I think this is it. These lovely, spirited, freewheeling trip logs are charged with the poetry of motion.” –Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air
This is not the first time Edd’s artwork has graced the cover of a local creative force, the late, beloved musician Ben Bullingston’s CD Lazy Moon featured an Edd Enders painting.
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Edd Enders’ art was featured in the high-traffic lobby of the Emerson in Bozeman May through September, 2015. Edd’s vibrant paintings “Roads, Rivers, Sky” had an opening reception Friday, May 7 from 5 – 8 pm during the first Bozeman Art Walk of the Season and the work remained in the lobby through September.
All original oil paintings are for sale through the duration. Enders does no prints or copies so this is an opportunity to invest in timeless and durable original work of oil on canvas – which will last for generations – from a self-taught iconic Montana native.
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Many enjoyed the Danforth Gallery and Park County Friends of the Arts 2015 annual series “Discourse at the Danforth” discussing the creative process. After three stellar presentations by fascinating, creative and talented folks for three weeks, the series ended with Edd Enders discussing his creative process on April 21, 2015 in conjunction with his “Inch x Inch” art exhibit April 17-22. Free admission, donations and memberships greatly appreciated. The Danforth Gallery is at 106 North Main Street in Livingston. Visit http://www.pcfadanforth.org/ for more information.
Final Discourse: Edd Enders Painting on Tuesday, April 21st, 2015.
Danforth Board Chair introduces Edd
Enders will discuss his creative process; from sketching scenes, to building canvases, to mixing oil paints, to his painting style and why he paints what he paints. Don’t forget the reception for Edd’s show of new work “Inch x Inch” on Friday, April 17 at 6 pm, with a percentage of the proceeds benefiting the Danforth. Discourse at the Danforth has been sponsored by The Mint Bar and Grille (so stop by and thank them for supporting the arts and enjoy their own creative Taco Tuesday after the Discourse) as well as Synergigi Interior Designs.
Discourse at the Danforth – April 14, 2015 with Distiller Thomas McGuane Thomas McGuane IV grew up in Paradise Valley. After graduating from MSU in 1991 with an English degree, McGuane began a career in bladesmithing. He had his first knife show at the Danforth Gallery. In 2014 McGuane added a new craft, distilling spirits at Bozeman Spirits Distillery. Creativity and craft are what link the process of making artisan knives and spirits.
McGuane describes his creative efforts as combining “a sort of shared alchemy between transforming wood, metal and grain that connects these crafts in the convoluted mind of this artisan.” He adds that he will likely continue doing things as he pleases! McGuane will expand his alchemy by mixing cocktails with his spirits at his Discourse at the Danforth. Learn more about Bozeman Spirits at http://www.bozemanspirits.com and visit them at 121 West Main Street in Bozeman, phone 406.577-2155.
Discourse at the Danforth – Laurie Sargent April 7, 2015
Woe on those who missed the amazing songwriting discourse (we even got to write a song together!) on April 7th at the Danforth Gallery. Learn more about Laurie Sargent Musician/Songwriter. Laurie Sargent has has a long and a storied career as a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist and added organic farmer to her resume when she moved to Wilsall, Montana.
Her self-described “long squiggly career” includes recording for major labels with Boston-based new wave band Face-to-Face, who had a top 40 hit, and acclaimed indie-label bands Twinemen and Orchestra Morphine, in which she joined forces with her partner Billy Conway (formerly the drummer for the band Morphine). Her collaborations have included recording two discs for performance artists The Chip Smith Project and several solo albums featuring a talented roster of musicians. Following Discourse at the Danforth, Sargent will head out on tour to open up for longtime friend Johnette Napolitano (vocalist/songwriter and bassist for Concrete Blonde). Sargent’s latest solo recording is “Little Dipper and the Shooting Star,” which The Boston Globe calls, “a deeply satisfying solo disc,” and applauds her, “ finely honed lyrics with bruised wisdom.”
Sargent also recently added painting to her creative pursuits and owns and operates local farmer’s market favorite Crazy View Farms. Learn more about her tour, music, and see paintings at http://www.lauriesargentart.com/sonic-painting/
First 2015 Discourse at the Danforth Jerry Iverson’s discussion about philosophy and painting was fascinating and lively on March 31. Learn more about Jerry’s work at http://jerryiverson.com/ and read below: Artist Statement. My art has been much influenced by the materials, balance and grace of Asian calligraphy. I don’t know what the characters mean, but I love how they look. I use many layers of sumi ink, paper and rabbit skin glue to build a distressed, uneven texture. Torn and broken black lines create a tense, awkward balance. In order to examine an idea thoroughly, I like to work in series. One idea, over and over again: Language Series expresses the difficulty of communication. Black lines look like words, but they don’t say anything. Nerve Blocks show the strained and shattered nerves that happen in life. Things fall apart.
Line Bombs remind me of the violence and disruption of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how war has taught the powerless and dispossessed that anything can become a weapon. The days are full of hidden bombs, and the lives of innocents are torn apart.
Darwin’s Trees are a reflection on Charles Darwin’s own ink drawing of the Tree of Life. He used it as a visual representation of his great theory of evolution – that species diverge from common lineages. Yet the branches are broken, misshapen, and most species become extinct.
Causation uses the intersection of black lines and circles to show the chain of life. Causal relations are everywhere. Each event in our lives is connected to events of the past and present. Often, the causal chain is very complex and hard to identify. Sometimes, it’s one big mess.
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When Edd feels stuck on complicated landscape or urbanscape paintings, he regularly taps into his unconscious and paints a self portrait. This 2016 painting incorporates a new element; text. The theme is aging and the passage of time. Edd has more than two dozen self portraits and they demonstrate different stages of his painting style and where he is in his life. Edd generally does not sell his self portraits.
of the Tree of Life. He used it as a visual representation of his great theory of evolution – that species diverge from common lineages. Yet the branches are broken, misshapen, and most species become extinct.
e. Causal relations are everywhere. Each event in our lives is connected to events of the past and present. Often, the causal chain is very complex and hard to identify. Sometimes, it’s one big mess.