Opening Reception—Craig Albright: Chasing Light

Craig Albright was born Sioux City, Iowa, attended Sioux City North High School, and currently lives with his family in Iowa City. As a young man, he spent evenings and long summer days working at a mill outside Sergeant Bluff, where he sawed huge cotton wood logs and building pallets. He developed a deep appreciation for, and has been inspired by, the pastoral and industrial landscapes of our state.

Chasing Light, Albright’s first one-person museum exhibition, includes new and recent landscape paintings that he sees as both poetic and spiritual. He uses a combination of memory and photographic references in his work. “My interest is not to capture a faithful copy of what I see or to duplicate a photograph. I’m taking cues from various sources. Through the activity of painting, I use a process of abstracting, distilling, refining and even obliterating the image before me to bring the painting to its own life.”