Daniel McCoy, Jr.
Where Trouble Began , 2019
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 65 x 1.5 in
127 x 165 x 5 cm
By late 2018 I had began painting landscapes. A style of painting I had purposely ignored for twenty years. I was beginning to really enjoy the New Mexican scenery while hiking and driving. My studio mate painted landscapes, the artist I worked for painted them as well. I began taking pictures of mountains, drawing from life, I added a southwestern palette into these new paintings. I also added influence from video games, quilting, Japanese architecture and maps to create a complex composition underneath the linework above, an abstract landscape as a foundation to begin with. “Where Trouble Began” is a painting where I introduced architecture against or in accompaniment to the surrounding landscape. This painting is a city scape of an area of town I am familiar with. When I first moved to Santa Fe, I lived on the campus of the College of Santa Fe on Saint Michaels drive, a college which is completely closed now. Saint Michaels was the first busy street I had ever lived by, full of Bars, riff raff and new Culture for myself to explore. This existence was drastic change from the two-lane highway I was accustomed to in rural Oklahoma. Now twenty-eight years later the signs have changed on the businesses, the old patrons gone, there are no remaining students creating art on campus, but the mountains remain, and a ghost of my formative years.
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