Changing Landscape: Paintings in Series by Jim Condron is an introduction to Condron’s series of abstracted landscapes painted with unexpected color and powerful brushstrokes.  Emboldening the landscape though his work on the canvas, he asserts his subject’s existence through scale and form.  Though termed by the artist as landscapes, Condron’s focus is on the objects that inhabit the space- trees, rocks, and shadow- rather than the landscape itself.  Changing Landscape is a welcome summertime retreat well-suited for exhibition amidst the picturesque Hermitage Museum & Gardens, a place where art and nature commune.

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“(Jim Condron’s paintings) present themselves as knots of energy, humming at more subtle wavelengths than the sensory eye can pick up.  He has painted ordinary objects in his everyday environment with an eye that both affirms their presence and strips them of their materiality.  But what at first might seem a deliberate estrangement of the familiar is in fact an entirely different project: an engagement with his subjects so intimate that it becomes impersonal.”

-Excerpt from Essay for the 2007 Show at the Red Door Gallery in Richmond, VA by W.D. Soud