Jim Waid (b.1942)
"Ranchero"
acrylic on linen
60" x 72"
"Pond's Edge"
acrylic on canvas
68" x 64" (SOLD)
"Mariposa"
acrylic on canvas
40" x 60"
About the Artist
“I don’t want the paintings to be like you’re looking at a landscape. I want them to feel like you’re in it.” — Jim Waid
Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with marks, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the landscape painted upon them; lush with growth they invite the viewer to explore the space.
Initially the paintings seem nonrepresentational, however, they slowly reveal themselves to be made up of organic textures, abstracted natural forms, and the desert landscape. They convey a sense of nature, without the specificity of traditional landscape painting.
He is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Tucson Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; Arizona State University Art Museum; Indiana University Art Museum, as well as numerous other museums and corporations.
