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Mal Luber
One of the
country's foremost western and equine artists, makes his home in
Connecticut, has a BFA and MA from Hunter College in New York City.
He has exhibited his drawings and paintings in many leading museums and
galleries throughout the country. His photo-realist drawings have received
critical acclaim wherever they have been exhibited, and are included in
several prestigious museum and private collections.
With his early photo-realist drawings of ordinary street people having
been exhibited in, and collected by, major museums, Luber has now turned
his attention and artistic skills to horses, and subjects related to
America's West. "I may live in the East," Luber says,
"but my heart is in the West."
Because his equine and western images come from his photography, he
travels to the West as often as possible in order to capture the spirit,
light, action and costumes which constitute his subject matter.
"Whenever I travel to the West I feel that I've returned
home." Many of his newest works show the interaction between
man and horse, using both cowboys and Native Americans as primary subject
matter. The relationship between man and animal begins to take on a new
dynamic dimension, that is almost mystical in quality.
Unlike many western artists whose paintings tell a story, for Luber,
the most important ingredient in his paintings is the power of the
image. Sometimes, as in "It's Gonna Be Close," the
power comes from the horses charging the viewer. Other times, as in
"The Power of Two," it's in the sheer glory of two
magnificent creatures pulling their unseen load through a wheat field.
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