ANDREW LENAGHAN | My paintings are life paintings. They are painted outdoors and on location. I observe the sun and weather move over the subject. I paint with an urgency to capture these passing moments. I encounter the people who frequent the site. I learn anecdotal stories about it. While working, I am fully immersed in my subject. It's exciting to get to know a foreign city or place through the act of pleinair painting. And that was the case for me in Santa Fe.

ABOUT | Santa Fe Paintings 2009
In this new series of paintings, New York-based Andrew Lenaghan spent the month of August, 2009 in Santa Fe as a first-time visitor. He set up his easel at various locales around the city and commenced to paint what he saw, resulting in the 15 plein aire paintings in this exhibition. From a recent New York Times review of Lenaghan’s work Roberta Smith writes, “Andrew Lenaghan’s paintings are always off, weird and distorted, but subtly, in a way that makes you look long and satisfies the eye…his brand of realism is subtly tweaked, oddly relaxed and personal. It quietly but decisively avoids photographic truth, introducing unexpected curvatures and gently emphatic planes that assert each picture as a formal construction, made up of different parts and separate pictorial incidents.” This new body of work reflects a fresh and new perspective on Santa Fe’s street and landscapes.