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“The Ann Korologos Gallery gives nuance to the idea of ‘Western art’, tapping into the American West and frontier culture as an inspiration for their collections. Focused on American artists working across various media from painting and photography to sculpture and print-making, Ann Korologos Gallery is an unmissable, distinctively Coloradan bulwark of the Rocky Mountains’ arts scene. Located outside of Aspen in the small town of Basalt, numerous artists featured at the gallery channel the town’s idyllic surroundings into their artistic vision, with particular reference to the town’s reputation as a mountain fishing Mecca.”
Artist Linda Lillegraven was born at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1948. She received her BA in Art from San Diego State University and a BS in Zoology in 1970 and 1972, respectively. She then went on to earn a MS in Biology from the University of Utah in 1975. A summer spent doing research in an isolated corner of Utah convinced her that she wanted more than anything to paint the great open landscapes of the West, despite her extensive experience with wildlife. Living in Laramie, Wyoming provides infinite opportunities to see and create paintings of the high, open country she loves. The harsh climate and expansive wilderness of Wyoming provides stunning variety for the artist, with the light changing from one minute to the next, and from one season to another.
Linda Lillegraven lives in Laramie, Wyoming, and earned a BA in Art and BS in Zoology from San Diego State University. The great open landscapes of the West, with their changing light and seasons, offer the artist a lifetime of inspiration. Her oil paintings depict the transitions of color and tone of the plains, so subtle as to be “almost invisible,” yet perfectly conveyed by the hands of Lillegraven. Her landscape paintings include a minimal amount of detail while giving the viewer a sense of big skies, open fields, space and scale. Lillegraven is a featured artist in “Carved, Etched, Painted,” on view May 2022 at Ann Korologos Gallery.