{"id":2128,"date":"2022-05-01T22:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T22:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=2128"},"modified":"2022-05-01T22:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T22:11:33","slug":"kris-engman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/kris-engman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Engman\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Artist&#8217;s Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past two decades, I\u2018ve painted the Maine landscape and worked toward what I define as \u201cordinariness.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I explore various aspects of the land and life in Maine. My palette imitates the seasonally shifting behaviors in the terrain in and around Waldo County. The paintings are an expression of color in some sort of balance that feels connected to daily routines and observations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The role of the \u201cstory\u201d is minimized; attention is directed past identifying <em>what\u02bcs <\/em>going on in the painting toward <em>how <\/em>things relate visually to each other. The body of work is about color behavior, compositional structure, and the careful arrangement of information; images are manipulated until a certain light condition is struck and a sense of the territory is explained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Engman-\u2013-Bangor-Pines-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2129\" width=\"437\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Engman-\u2013-Bangor-Pines-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Engman-\u2013-Bangor-Pines-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Engman-\u2013-Bangor-Pines-768x610.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Engman-\u2013-Bangor-Pines-1536x1219.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Engman-\u2013-Bangor-Pines-2048x1626.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><figcaption>Kris Engman, <em>Bangor Pines, <\/em>2020. Oil on linen on panel, 18 x 24 in.<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s Statement For the past two decades, I\u2018ve painted the Maine landscape and worked toward what I define as \u201cordinariness.\u201d&nbsp; I explore various aspects of the land and life in Maine. My palette imitates the seasonally shifting behaviors in the terrain in and around Waldo County. The paintings are an expression of color in some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9844,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2128\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}