The Artist
“I paint what remains after the view is gone.”
Lea Chen is an American painter working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His layered oil paintings distill the deserts and coastlines of the West into fields of color and texture.
Read biographySelected Works
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Dry Season Horizon
Oil on linen · 30 × 40 in
$6,800
Sage Study No. 3
Oil on panel · 24 × 24 in
$3,400
Rust Arc
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle cotton rag · from 12 × 16 in
From $280
From the Journal
Studio Notes
Behind the Scenes
Eleven Sittings: Building a Horizon
How Dry Season Horizon went from a charcoal sketch to a finished canvas.
Exhibitions
New Work at Canyon Road, Santa Fe
Five new paintings join a group exhibition this November.
Notes
Notes on Painting with Black
Why I mix my own blacks — and why Rust Arc needed one.
The Collector List