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J.R. Lancaster
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J.R. has been an artist for over thirty years, beginning as an amateur photographer in the early seventies and progressing into fine art black and white photography after attending a workshop taught by Ansel Adams in 1980. Subsequently he apprenticed with master photographer Paul Caponigro printing images for his books "The Wise Silence" and "Megaliths of Europe," all the while working to further his own craft.
Throughout the mid-eighties J.R made several trips to Central America to photograph prehistoric Mayan sites. In 1989 he was appointed by the Navajo Nation to document and photograph sacred sites and plants for educational books and projects, so moved to Chinle, Arizona from his home in Louisiana, remaining four years. He relocated to Navajo Mountain for two years to continue this project, then in 1994 to his current home in Utah where he established Cloudwatcher Studio and Gallery.
Employing time-honored mediums as well as found objects and natural materials, J.R. endeavors with each movement to create unique organic pieces which convey a multi-dimensional chronicle of life- present, past and future... and the spaces beyond. His art sources from the high desert landscape; abstracts-colored of the region and the soul- frequently integrate with prehistoric images. Mixed media pieces combine paint, photography and collage. Hand-sized sculptures,magnetic, in presence, are fashioned using traditional clay of the area, and complex large-scale assemblages of wood, stone and metal(some reaching more then twenty feet in height) are custom made for clients nationwide.
J.R. work has been exhibited nationally in over sixty galleries and museums, is part of MOMA permanent collection, appears in a number of corporate and private collections worldwide.
artists website.
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