S Duren

Duren was born and reared in the amber light of northern California. He moved to West Michigan in 1978 where he taught for six years at various colleges before settling into his full-time vocation as a painter.

For many years he has danced between abstraction and realism. Chicago Tribune critic Alan Artner lauded the "modest, unaffected freshness" of his small pleinair landscape paintings. Newcity critic Nathan Matteson wrote, "The work that shows him at his best is the kind that crosses those useless boundaries of representational and abstract."

Duren has been the subject of more than 40 one-person exhibitions and honored with over 30 art prizes. His works hang in the permanent collections of museums and universities, and more than 60 foundations and corporations in America and abroad.