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Glen River achieved his reputation as an artist's artist, by demonstrating that from a very traditional art form, portrait painting, Landscape, still life, nude study, or depiction, he could transform image and paint into a ballet of composition and orchestration. His contemporary expression challenges esthetic definitions. He crosses all barriers to arrive at a cross pollination of creativity he describes as transfluence. His subjects for portraits are his family, his friends, himself, and fellow poets and artists. Similarly his landscapes are close to home. Working from photographic images, he redefines his images by applying layer after layer of colors and glazes. His works are generally smaller than life and while meticulously rendered, he delights in the energized brush stroke. Glen River describes the point of artistic perspective as Zen Process. It is in the process that he finds the meaning, rather than the subject itself.
Born in Washington D.C., He studied art at S.V.A., the Silvermine College of Art and Yale University, earning an M.F.A. in 1970. His work can be found in private collections throughout the world. A string of one man shows in the United States, England, France, Switzerland, and Greece came to an abrupt end in 1992. A studio fire destroyed over 400 paintings and Drawings. Recently a new period in showing started with new work. The Re-Birth group of paintings were soon followed by the Kachina series. River continues to be profoundly interested in the primitive subconscious, and reunification with nature. Tremendously prolific, Rivers work alternately pursues a mythic abstract path, and pictorial landscapes. Other areas of achievement include: music, poetry, writing, and movie making. He continues to live and work in New Yorks Hudson River Valley.
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