Painted Lady Migration, Mustangs and Shoe Canopy in the Eastern Mojave oil on linen 2026 50" x 81"
Taylor Evans
Director
tevans@gpgallery.com
Gerald Peters Contemporary is delighted to open the fall season with Relics, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Don Stinson. Exploring the interplay of realism, shifting light, atmosphere, and color, Stinson conveys both the beauty and environmental complexity of immense landscapes.
These paintings consider the consequences of progress in both art and industry, incorporating wind turbines, rail lines, land art, and oil infrastructure into landscapes rendered as beautiful places. While this may appear to be a straightforward approach to realist painting, Stinson finds an unexpected power and tension in making what is often overlooked the subject of art. Central to the work is the tension between what is actually there and what we hope to see—a space Stinson considers both creative and productive.
Together, the paintings expand conventional understandings of landscape and landscape painting, asking viewers to reconsider what constitutes an authentic Western landscape. Spanning both new and earlier works, Relics reflects what Stinson describes as “relics of experience and thought” accumulated over the past 25 years.
Don Stinson (b. 1956) is known for panoramic oil paintings that explore the physical and cultural geographies of the West. Stinson’s encompassing views reveal much about shared myths of the West, the lasting impact and evolving shape of energy landscapes, notions of progress, individual creativity, and America’s beautiful, if often deeply flawed, relationship with its own lands.
Stinson received his B.F.A. from Colorado State University and his M.F.A. from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He was the recipient of Colorado Council on the Arts Director’s Grant.
His work is placed in the collections of the Phoenix Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, The Whitney Collection at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, The Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles and the Art in Embassies Program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Don has had prominent showings at The Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, The Phoenix Art Museum, The Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and Artist Space, New York. Don’s work has been featured in the New York Times and Time magazine.
Don Stinson
Painted Lady Migration, Mustangs and Shoe Canopy in the Eastern Mojave 2026
oil on linen
50" x 81"
Don Stinson
America the Beautiful: Clark Fork of the Yellowstone River 2026
oil on linen
39" x 53"
Don Stinson
Questions Raised by a Foaming Sea and the Long Swim South from Rozel Point 2026
oil on linen
81" x 89"
Don Stinson
On the Map: Viewing Stations at Sun Tunnels, December 2003 AM 2003
oil on linen
81" x 89"
