Mike Glier is a peripatetic artist whose work describes an exchange with the natural world.  Working “en plein air”, his recent paintings incorporate sound, touch, smell and taste as well as sight to record the complex experience of being in the New Mexico landscape. For this exhibition, Bird Songs of the Acequias, his sixth with the Gallery, Glier visualizes the smell of Juniper trees; the chatter of birds; the growl of a bear; the roar of the wind; and the profound babble of water flowing through acequias in the Santa Fe and Taos regions. His attempts to record sensory experiences that are not visual result in unexpected shapes, fresh color chords and surprising compositions that slip easily between representational and abstract styles. 

Selection from the press release for Bird Songs of the Acequias, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, 2019.