On first viewing Eva Lundsager’s paintings readily suggest landscape, while Richmond Burtons seem more toward conceptions of visual fragmentation.  Both can be read as leading us to a complex whole rather than specifics moments.

Both painters push and pull color, form, and solid brushwork, toward understanding something fresh, something revealing, which allows the canvas to hint at the familiar yet reveal things clearly not familiar at all.

Eva’s passion for color leaps from her work often suggesting we expand our view outside the limits of the canvas frame.  Richmond, on the other hand, tends to draw us inward toward things unseen which trigger our imagination.

Both immaculately present detail, epic moments even in the seemingly minor sections of these remarkably crafted paintings.  Reading them as a whole or focusing on their minor passages offers rewards to the eyes, heart, and soul of the viewer. 

Eva Lundsager’s work can be found in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art,, Harvard Business School, Rutger’s University, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD,  and the Whanki Musuem of Seoul, South Korea., and several Missouri museums – the Daum Museum, the Nerman Museum, and The Saint Louis Art Museum.

Richmond Burton’s work is in many major museum collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles, and many notable collections.