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“I’m not interested in detailed realistic painting. Art is emotional for me. It isn’t about reality or making something look like a picture. It’s about the feelings behind the imagery.”

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Biography

Shanna Kunz

As a contemporary landscape painter, my work is a conscious play of mood, light and color, but as a naturalist raised and rooted in the diverse landscapes of western America, a painting means more than that to me. Each location is an encounter with the land, the trees, and the waters that have always given me a sense of connection and order. When a location intrigues and inspires me, I will paint the scene into a series using a range of keys or themes, experimenting and searching to learn more about the natural threads that tie the landscape together with complexity, subtlety and⎯more importantly⎯balance. I look for new ways to express spatial relationships and distance with layers of paint, brushwork, gradations, and diffusions of light. Hopefully, my study of the landscape will bring me somewhat closer to an honest translation⎯of both soul and land⎯as I push color and value into new compositions and continue a lifelong effort to communicate the emotional connection I feel with my environment.

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Exhibitions

November 22, 2022

WINTER GEMS

This group exhibition features masterful artists to bring you joy. New works by Jacob Aguiar, Kathy Anderson, and Kathryn Mapes Turner.
July 27, 2022

Where the West Begins

August 6, 2022 - September 3, 2022—This exhibition, Where the West Begins, honors Yellowstone 150th Anniversary with this invitational of master artists.

News & Press

June 30, 2020

INTERVIEW WITH
SHANNA KUNZ

Shanna Kunz answers questions about her upbringing in national parks and diverse landscapes of western America, her artistic history, daily life, and the profound experience of painting flowers for “While We Were Still…Flowers Bloomed.”