About Wiz Allred
Artist Statement:
I moved from North Texas to Taos, NM in 1987. I left a thriving business in the Dallas area for a change of pace, but it wasn’t until I drove through the Rio Grande gorge canyon that I knew I had arrived home.
Ever since childhood, I’ve been a wilderness person. Hiking, fishing, hunting, exploring, you name it. If it was outdoors, I was interested in doing it. The wilderness speaks to me and I am far more comfortable there than I ever feel in urban surroundings.
Over the decades living in Taos, I have logged thousands of miles and hours in the rough but beautiful terrain of Northern New Mexico, experiencing vistas touched by the stunning light of the lower Rockies. Many of these views are known to others. Many are not. That was the inspiration for this show: to paint the magic I’ve seen in my third of a century of living in the Land of Enchantment.
Artist Bio:
Wiz Allred is a distinguished artist whose works are collected on every continent but Antarctica, including high-profile collections at the Marina City buildings in Chicago and the US Pentagon. Allred has worked in myriad aspects of the visual arts, including illustration, billboards, graphic design, watercolor, oils, acrylics, metals, and stone.
Although he has worked in many genres, Allred primarily paints landscapes, seeking to capture the peculiar light of Northern New Mexico and all that it touches: mountains, forests, rivers, snow, and sky.
True to his wide-ranging experience in the visual arts, Allred owns and operates a graphics business that designs award-winning books (specializing in art reference) as well as a stone business that specializes in the installation of water features comprised of monumental-sized boulders in areas where you cannot get forklifts or cranes.
He makes his home in Taos and Santa Fe, NM.
I moved from North Texas to Taos, NM in 1987. I left a thriving business in the Dallas area for a change of pace, but it wasn’t until I drove through the Rio Grande gorge canyon that I knew I had arrived home.
Ever since childhood, I’ve been a wilderness person. Hiking, fishing, hunting, exploring, you name it. If it was outdoors, I was interested in doing it. The wilderness speaks to me and I am far more comfortable there than I ever feel in urban surroundings.
Over the decades living in Taos, I have logged thousands of miles and hours in the rough but beautiful terrain of Northern New Mexico, experiencing vistas touched by the stunning light of the lower Rockies. Many of these views are known to others. Many are not. That was the inspiration for this show: to paint the magic I’ve seen in my third of a century of living in the Land of Enchantment.
Artist Bio:
Wiz Allred is a distinguished artist whose works are collected on every continent but Antarctica, including high-profile collections at the Marina City buildings in Chicago and the US Pentagon. Allred has worked in myriad aspects of the visual arts, including illustration, billboards, graphic design, watercolor, oils, acrylics, metals, and stone.
Although he has worked in many genres, Allred primarily paints landscapes, seeking to capture the peculiar light of Northern New Mexico and all that it touches: mountains, forests, rivers, snow, and sky.
True to his wide-ranging experience in the visual arts, Allred owns and operates a graphics business that designs award-winning books (specializing in art reference) as well as a stone business that specializes in the installation of water features comprised of monumental-sized boulders in areas where you cannot get forklifts or cranes.
He makes his home in Taos and Santa Fe, NM.
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