Barn near Corning Painting

No other structure symbolizes the American Midwest quite as powerfully as the family barn. For those of us who grew up here, barns were as perennial as the trees. The heart of every homestead, barns were no less than church steeples — sublime, time-worn landmarks that charted our journeys along winding streets and gravel roads. I consider myself a neo-regionalist, embracing and promoting a fresh approach to Midwest art. Too often dismissed as fly-over farmland, the Midwest is alive with everything that is America. Our revered land (both wild and worked), the weathered icons of our agricultural heritage, and the skies — shifting like seasons from the bluest blue to pink and copper-red.