Stuart Arends is an American artist steeped in the landscape tradition which resonated from work generated and inspired by the great Mid-West. Arend's work, although small in size, encapsulates the wide-open spaces that yielded minerals or gave rich farming land, as in Arends' native Iowa.

Arends' first love in the arts was abstract expressionism, in particular De Kooning's early work and, though his first visit to Europe was injudicious, he obtained a great appreciation and understanding of early Renaissance work, the frescoes of Giotto and later for da Vinci's Last Supper. And yet, the desert is his 'heimat', and he has a sense of belonging in the dry, arid land found in New Mexico where Arends has made his home since the 1980s. His love of this landscape and awe of the delicate infrastructure so necessary for life on the edge has concentrated his art practice. Economy of means and limited palette combine to create paintings with infinite views.