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Tatum Cabin
NC, 2003,
oil on canvas
39 x 48 inches |
Burned House
NC, 2004, oil on canvas
29-1/2 x 48 inches
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Bartlett Building
2004,
oil on canvas
35 x 43 inches |
Félix de la Concha paints every day, and has done so for the last thirty years. Painting outside, bundled against the elements, capturing an odd angle of a Vermont shed exterior, delicate brush clutched in a fat, paint-flecked mitten – or in, beneath the soaring architectures of our oldest museums and landed institutions, commemorating the various silences of time's passage through their sumptuous interiors and uninhabited space – Félix de la Concha shows us new ways of seeing the familiar in the present, new ways of knowing the old. Perspective is how we manage space. De la Concha goes one better, managing perspective itself to bring home what it means to exist in space, and how, as if in response to some light-bending relativity, space and its perspective conform to our presence. De la Concha’s sense of composition is unique and unerring; his verisimilitude serves as an ultra-reliable narrator of the experience of his locations. In these paintings from 2002 to 2008, from locations in North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Vermont he brings us a new way of seeing and experiencing a plein air painting.
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