The Unexpected Paintings of
Clarence Medina
By Rebekah Powers | December 2022
Paintings of spectacular moments on ordinary days describes the art of Clarence Medina. His work has the immediacy of being on location, making it easy to see through the artists eyes, stand in his shoes and allow the scene to envelope you. Medina evokes that sensation of place, the energy of the day, but most of all, a feeling of home.
As a boy growing up in the small mountain enclave of Dixon, Clarence would see painters, their easels set up in precarious locations: a smattering across the hillside, or along the road overlooking a valley or spread out around one of the New Mexican mission churches near Dixon. He thought then that he wanted nothing more than to grow up and do that too.
He showed an unexpected interest in the art districts of Santa Fe as he got older and began to adopt different painters as mentors, finding his own visual language and beginning to paint with finesse and serious intent. He has spoken about his artistic trajectory of focusing on getting the details right at first, but learning to paint more freely and “welcoming the unexpected “ which usher in new perspectives.
Clarence Medina is known for expressive landscapes that reflect a very personal connection to this place, revealing the simplicity as well as the majesty of life in the land of enchantment. Experience the back roads, the by-ways and one spectacular painting after the next, on view now at Chimayo Trading.
Clarence Medina 1969-2022
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