Sharon Feder's Edge of The Plains at Denver's Botanic Gardens
- BY BREE DAVIES
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015 | 22 DAYS AGO
Sharon Feder, Trainyard No. 1, oil on panel. Courtesy of the artist.
At first glance, Sharon Feder's work seems to focus on sweeping, modern landscapes; train tracks and abandoned buildings fill massive canvases, alongside other familiar structures from Denver's not-so-distant agricultural and commercial past. But she sees the paintings a little differently. "The reason I began painting buildings was because I had been doing a lot of studio still lifes — the buildings felt like really big still lifes," says Feder. "They are objects on a surface; it's dealing with the same things visually... (read full story)