Jeff Aeling Still-life Paintings
American, b. 1958
Iowa-born artist Jeff Aeling brings striking, enveloping Photorealism to his landscape paintings of the American Southwest. If there is enough distance between a viewer and one of Aeling’s works that the delicate brush strokes are rendered nearly invisible, the act of determining whether it’s a painting or a photograph becomes an arduous task.
Aeling begins his work by taking photographs of his subject. He maintains that the work loses something when painting outdoors, and the lens of photography better captures one’s perception and memory of the experience. The artist conveys the feelings of freedom that a big-sky horizon might afford or the intimacy that a forest glade can provide. He captures the heaviness and chaos of a thunderstorm as masterfully as he depicts the tranquility of an island sunset, and for his realist style and focus on nature, he has drawn comparisons to the Barbizon and Hudson River schools, respectively.
Aeling was born in Iowa City. His father was an army doctor, so Jeff moved around a lot as a child. While his family lived in Hawaii for one of his father's postings, Aeling developed an appreciation and connection to nature.
Though he’d been painting for years by then, he found representation at the Medicine Man Gallery of Tucson, Arizona, in the mid-1990s. Aeling now lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri, where he continues to capture the essence of nature in its purest form.
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Artist: Jeff Aeling
Glass of Milk - Still-life Oil Painting with Glass of Milk
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
Aeling’s still life with a glass of milk is a masterclass in clarity and restraint. It brightens one of the core truths of his practice: that light is the subject of every painting, whether cast across a mountain range or contained within a simple vessel. The circular reflections beneath the glass recall his love of geometry within nature—how arcs, rings, and contours emerge from light’s interaction with form. This piece echoes the quiet intensity of his earliest studio work, grounding his expansive landscapes in the discipline of looking closely.
Jeff Aeling
Glass of Milk
Oil on panel
19h x 13.50w in
48.26h x 34.29w cm
FRAMED DIMENSIONS:
25.50h x 20w x 1.50d in
64.77h x 50.80w x 3.81d cm
JAE057
Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers
Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character.
Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jeff Aeling Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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Education
BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2013
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2012
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
2012
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2011
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
2011
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2010
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
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Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY
2010
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2009
J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
2009
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2008
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
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