Denham Clements has an unusual history for a photorealistic painter, and is enjoying and even more unusual success. His work has been included in exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, the Albuquerque Museum, US Ambassador's Residence, Lima, Peru, the Tucson Museum of Art, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, as well as collections throughout the US and abroad.
Passages
Other than the glued down strips of gold leaf, “Passages” is a hand-painted montage intended to gather together elements from life in New Mexico…both the historical (the retablo) and the contemporary (a hubcap and a photo of a burger joint) co-exist on the painting as they do in this tri-cultural realworld, revolving and evolving, unattached but with roots that bind the present with the past.
