Finding the Balance

Tom Maakestad

September 9 - October 14, 2017

Tom Maakestad "Sunset Field"
2017 | oil, wax, and oil pastel on panel | SOLD
image: 12 x 12" | frame: 13.5 x 13.5"

Tom Maakestad "Field Patterns"
2017 | oil and wax on panel | $950.00
image: 9 x 12" | frame: 14 x 17"

Tom Maakestad "Cloister Fields"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | $2,700.00
image: 22 x 30" | frame: 29.5 x 37.5"

Tom Maakestad "Valley Grove"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | $2,100.00
image: 13 x 30" | frame: 21 x 37.5"

Tom Maakestad "The Wild Bunch"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | $2,900.00
image: 22 x 37" | frame: 31 x 46"

Tom Maakestad "Sketch, Local Farm"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | $750.00
image: 8 x 10.5" | frame: 15 x 17.5"

Tom Maakestad "Color Fields"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | SOLD
image: 20 x 26" | frame: 28 x 33.5"

Tom Maakestad "Quilted Fields"
2017 | oil on panel | $950.00
image: 10 x 10" | frame: 15 x 15"

Tom Maakestad "The Slough at 7 Mile Woods"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | $2,700.00
image: 22 x 30" | frame: 30 x 37.5"

Tom Maakestad "End of Day"
2017 | oil and wax | SOLD
image: 12 x 12" | frame: 13 x 13"

Tom Maakestad "After Sun"
2017 | oil and wax | SOLD
image: 12 x 12" | frame: 13 x 13"

Tom Maakestad "Prairie #2"
2017 | oil on panel | $850.00
image: 10 x 10" | frame: 11 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "Prairie #3"
2017 | oil on panel | SOLD
image: 8 x 10" | frame: 9 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "Prairie Winter"
2017 | oil on panel | $850.00
image: 10 x 10" | frame: 11 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "Corner Farm"
2017 | oil paint on panel | SOLD
image: 8 x 10" | frame: 9 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "Winter Stock"
2017 | oil on panel | SOLD
image: 9 x 12" | frame: 10 x 13"

Tom Maakestad "Farm Yard Grazing"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | $2,500.00
image: 21 x 27" | frame: 29 x 35"

Tom Maakestad "Grass Fed"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | SOLD
image: 22 x 38" | frame: 31 x 47"

Tom Maakestad "Local Farming"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | $2,700.00
image: 22 x 30" | frame: 29 x 37.5"

Tom Maakestad "Sunset on East Bank I"
2017 | oil, wax, and oil pastel on panel | $850.00
image: 10 x 10" | frame: 11 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "From Observatory"
2017 | oil and wax on panel | $850.00
image: 10 x 10" | frame: 11 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "Sunset on East Bank II"
2017 | oil, wax, and oil pastel on panel | $850.00
image: 10 x 10" | frame: 11 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "Sunset on East Bank III"
2017 | oil, wax, and oil pastel on panel | $850.00
image: 10 x 10" | frame: 11 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "101 Oak Knoll"
2017 | oil and wax | $850.00
image: 10 x 10" | frame: 11 x 11"

Tom Maakestad "Winter Spring"
2017 | oil on panel | SOLD
image: 10 x 12.5" | frame: 11 x 13.5"

Tom Maakestad "Winter Road"
2017 | oil on panel | SOLD
image: 9 x 12" | frame: 10 x 13"

Tom Maakestad "Lone Tree"
2017 | oil on panel | $900.00
image: 9 x 12" | frame: 10 x 13"

Tom Maakestad "Winter Slough"
2017 | oil on panel | $900.00
image: 9 x 12" | frame: 10 x 13"

Tom Maakestad "Winter Corn Field"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | $1,200.00
image: 9 x 26" | frame: 16 x 33"

Tom Maakestad "Fall Light"
2017 | oil pastel on paper | SOLD
image: 16 x 40" | frame: 25.5 x 49.5"

Tom Maakestad "Late Day Field"
2017 | oil on panel | SOLD
image: 8 x 8" | frame: 9 x 9"

Tom Maakestad "Afterglow"
2017 | oil on panel | $650.00
image: 6 x 12" | frame: 7 x 13"

Finding the Balance

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 2-5 p.m.

In March of this year, Tom Maakestad received an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. In his grant proposal, Maakestad wrestled with the changing models of farming and their impact on the environment. Raised in rural Northfield in a family of artists among a community of farmers, Maakestad has worked to reconcile scenes from his idyllic farm upbringing with the mass production farming more present today.

Maakestad writes, “Growing up on a farm and surrounded by farmers gave me an understanding of their goals and practices.” Paintings from this upcoming show capture rolling hills tilled for planting and pastures speckled with the silhouettes of cows. “From an aesthetic point of view, I appreciate the vast stretches of agricultural landscape with undulating patterns and light. However, I also understand that our industrial farm complex has created unintended environmental consequences.” Occasionally, Maakestad turns his focus from farm fields to the backwoods and uncultivated portions of the rural landscape. In these works, we see wetlands, creeks, and thickets knotted with Poplar, Honeysuckle, Prickly Ash, and Sumac. Amidst the tension, complexity, and concerns surrounding modern farming, Maakestad is able to pause and find the beauty which lingers, both on the farm and beyond its fences.

The artist will be present at the opening reception Saturday, September 9th from 2-5 pm. The opening reception and exhibition runs concurrently with Swirling Currents by Jean Gumpper. Both shows continue through October 14, 2017.

Finding the Balance

Tom Maakestad

Finding the Balance

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