{"id":1664,"date":"2010-03-16T14:14:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/03\/gaylen_hansen_-_fin_fur_feathe\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T14:14:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:14:43","slug":"gaylen_hansen_-_fin_fur_feathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/03\/gaylen_hansen_-_fin_fur_feathe.html","title":{"rendered":"Gaylen Hansen &#8211; fin, fur, feather and paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using mostly oils and rarely extending his painted ground beyond a grown man&#8217;s hand span, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/Exhibit\/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=10855\">Gaylen Hansen<\/a> staples his canvases onto a wall, rips them off when he&#8217;s done and considers them finished without frames. <\/p>\n<p>His colors are orchestrated, but he makes a fetish out of flatness. Like Japanese scroll painters, he conveys distance in layers. He paints wolves the color of sage who contemplate a deer drinking in a fish-filled stream. Buffalo, crickets, fish, dogs, cats, deer, bears, crows and magpies<br \/>\nmuscle Hansen&#8217;s stand-in, the Kernal. When fish play him, he<br \/>\nplays along.<br \/>\nWhen the sun bears down, he carries an umbrella.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gaylenhansensun.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/gaylenhansensun.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"317\" width=\"400\" \/>Now 89, Hansen continues to be a bright spot in the art terrain of rural Eastern Washington. He moved there in 1957 to take a teaching job Washington State University and give up on getting anywhere in the art world. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gaylenhansengrsshop.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/gaylenhansengrsshop.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"331\" width=\"400\" \/>The act of giving up, he said later, freed him to fully inhabit his own experience. His new work on view at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindahodgesgallery.com\/exhibit\/exhibit.html\">Linda Hodges Gallery<\/a> is small, with less inflected brush strokes than previously. He has reduced it to its color-struck essence &#8211; the wild West as comic still life. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Through March 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using mostly oils and rarely extending his painted ground beyond a grown man&#8217;s hand span, Gaylen Hansen staples his canvases onto a wall, rips them off when he&#8217;s done and considers them finished without frames. His colors are orchestrated, but he makes a fetish out of flatness. Like Japanese scroll painters, he conveys distance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}