Newman, Dave – Acrylic Painting “New Mexico #2”

$1,400.00

Newman, Dave

 

New Mexico #2 by Dave Newman is an original acrylic painting that captures the bold color, light, and atmosphere of the Southwest. Stacked in vivid horizontal bands, the composition drifts from rain-heavy clouds over a turquoise sky, down past a flat-topped red mesa and a sinuous black-and-white snake winding across a deep green field, to a row of rolling orange hills below. Newman’s flat, saturated palette and graphic, almost storybook sensibility turn the New Mexico landscape into something at once nostalgic and entirely his own, a joyful, contemporary vision of the high desert.

Dimensions: 18″ X 24″

Title: New Mexico #2

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

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Dave Newman — YITH tab bio

About the Artist

Dave Newman

Mixed media & Pop Americana · Placitas, New Mexico

Dave Newman is a nationally recognized mixed-media and acrylic artist whose work celebrates American nostalgia, pop culture, and the iconic imagery of the Southwest. A self-taught artist originally from Anaheim, California and now based in Placitas, New Mexico, he builds layered “time capsule” collages from his own photography, reclaimed wood and metal, vintage postcards, maps, and 20th-century print ephemera.

He also paints vivid acrylics — from stylized birds and landscapes to cultural icons and Americana — and has collaborated with the Fender Custom Shop for over fifteen years, creating one-of-a-kind playable art guitars shown in international calendars, catalogs, and exhibitions.

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