The Landscape Is A Conveyor. Jennifer Wynne Reeves and Jim Denney. A Two Person Painting Exhibition.

November 8, 2025 thru January 11, 2026

"A landscape conveyor…is a machine that moves large volumes of material quickly over short to long distances, including up inclines". WiKIPEDIA.

The title The Landscape Is A Conveyor is a metaphor for two painters stylically different yet intertwined by the use of the painted landscape. Their images convey complex dualities within landscape painting. A landscape conveyor machine moves materials; these landscape conveyors move emotions. Up inclines of imagination, down into valleys of despair, to the top of a look out tower, into a dense forest or onto a road populated by squirrely abstract characters lingering or parading into a psychic netherworld. The landscape can be realistic or implied but it is a grounding vessel for exploring urgent autonomous points of view.

Jim Denney b.1953 has exhibited widely for 40+ years. A former Pacific Northwest logger and fireman, his art bears witness of experience to convey environmental and man-made degradation & hope of renewal. Combining hyperrealist painting technique and an intensely hued yet clear palette and abstraction, viewers feel the heat from forest fires and destruction of man made buildings & machines. Sometimes the leftover detritus is the sole subject implying feelings that words cannot describe. Other times utter solitude and blue skies is the shared experience. The result compels viewers to address collective antipathy toward our stewardship of a shared natural inheritance and challenge our sense of ownership and responsibility.

Jennifer Wynne Reeves (1963-2014) approached art as story telling. Acclaimed by critics internationally, she integrated painting, collage, poetry, prose, text, sculpture and photography into modernist landscapes that expressed complex personal dialogues. Her use of flat space implied landscape as design and made it a grounding force for unlocking emotional damage within her psyche. Yet, rather than mere acceptance of the fates, Reeves inspired hope and critical investigation pushing back against on coming death, crowd think and failed romance through moral clarity & personal character that rings poetically and reveals a central core of shared humanity.

This is Jim Denney's first showing with Philip Douglas Fine Art and the third exhibition of works from the estate of Jennifer Wynne Reeves.