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Painting Below the Belt

by | Feb 1, 2003 | Art, Guns and Culture

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Paintings by Nelson Boren grab viewers by the scruff of the neck, demanding they complete the scenes to which the artist provides only a glimpse. Boren’s distinctive style focuses the viewer’s eye on the subject, rarely distracting it with extraneous background. He says he wants “the viewer to participate with the painting by completing the vignette anyway he or she can imagine.” As viewers finish his paintings in their own minds, Boren hopes they will conjure up “nostalgic memories


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