May 30, 2013 - Lauren P. Della Monica
"Though painted with incredible detail and realistic in approach to rendering the natural landscape, Wagstaff ’s untouched places are imbued with soft light and washes of color that create environments at once peaceful and otherworldly, somehow unreal."
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September 1, 2009 - Elaine Sexton
"Clay Wagstaff embeds his curious and compelling landscapes with self-conscious traces of his process. Exposed grids—lines sketched on the canvas that bleed through the oil paint— materialize in skies over seas, trees and shorelines. Evidence of an order underneath, this overt gesture on one hand telegraphs a desire to control and on the other acknowledges an almostness to Wagstaff’s efforts to replicate nature. “A Natural Order” was this Utah-based artist’s second exhibition at Sears Peyton. Like “Dynamic Symmetry,” his last (2007), its title refers to theories of Leonardo da Vinci concerning laws of natural design."
May 31, 2007 - Kimberly Whinna
Clay Wagstaff
May 31- June 30, 2007
Dynamic Symmetry
Sears-Peyton Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition of works by Utah based artist Clay Wagstaff.
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July 1, 2006
"The more one studies the paintings of Clay Wagstaff, the more it becomes clear that not only are they working on a multitude of levels and meaning, but that they can all be traced back to a complex system of layers, both physically and mentally."
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