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Skylights, Landfall, Sundown, and Echoes—these are not just titles for Derrick Breidenthal’s new work; these are oil paintings that make mood, provoke contemplation, and pause us briefly, in a world gone fast and furious. Atmosphere is Breidenthal’s forte, and he is conscious of both nature and man’s mechanical place within it. This coexistence, sometimes, is not so peaceful.

Breidenthal’s statement takes us into a fuller sensory understanding of his influences and process: I notice the smell of cut pasture and the drift of color in the sky. The rhythm of nature and the vibration of machine. …