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A Simple Plan

UTAH ARTIST G. RUSSELL CASE PAINTS ELEMENTAL LANDSCAPES THAT EXPRESS EMOTION AND GRANDEUR

ARTISTS WHO ASPIRE to simplicity in their work have a daunting challenge. The fewer gestures an artist makes, the weightier each one becomes. For landscape artists with a modernist attraction to reducing natural chaos by abstracting the core essence of a scene, the arid architecture of the West's canyons, mesas, and mountains offers a rich playground. Here, in this stripped-down landscape, so much of the abstraction has already been done. It is a modernist's dream.

Utah painter G. Russell case is deeply invested in the mysteries of simplicity, and his native landscape has provided him with an ...

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