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The first time
Gary Stutler
put brush to canvas was over 35 years ago. That painting is still
clear in his mind: A bright, brick-red house in the snow.
This image
wasn’t created from direct observation, but Gary very much wanted it
to look as though it had, indeed, been painted from life.
In the years that followed his first artistic
expression, Gary mostly succeeded in following that desire to paint
directly what was in front of him with fanatical attention to
realistic truth.
Gary painted in his own way for his initial 13 years as an artist,
taking a very narrow path, yet learning from its trajectory.
By the
time he entered UC Davis’ graduate painting program, he was ready for
a jostling of his artistic world view....
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