FROM REVIEWS...

"Honest-to-God, kitsch-free, no pretensions painting. The work that shows him at his best is the kind that crosses those useless boundaries of representational and abstract." —Nathan Matteson, NEWCITY, Chicago

"Semiabstract images seize the moment and are graced by directness and simplicity." —Sylvie Roder, ARTWEEK

His paintings are "invested with inner logic as lucid as the laws of nature. His unerring placement of compositional elements seems inspired. His color sense is no less superb." —Detroit Critic, Roger Green

"Duren ballets in pictorial space." —Conrad Baaker, URBAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, MI

"...modest, unaffected freshness." —Alan Artner, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"An extraordinary artist whose works have immense popular appeal." —Judith Sobel, past director GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM, MI

"...especially moving." —Jeff Abell, NEW ART EXAMINER, Chicago

"His paintings embody the same thoughtful quietude as the man.. They harbor an underlying power of form and color that won't be ignored." —Kristin Casaletto, ON THE TOWN MAGAZINE, MI

"Duren's strength is to suggest the inexplicable ways in which nature resonates to the human condition." —Carolyn Loeb, MORNING SUN, MI

"Duren's work is evidence of an artist whose heart and mind are both fully engaged and wonderfully integrated." —Mark Maher, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE, MI

"He creates his own visual vocabulary as he moves from the outside to the inner doors of self." —ART OF CALIFORNIA

"My fingers itch to touch..." —Marilyn Andersen, LAKE MICHIGAN COAST MAGAZINE, MI

"A thoughtful and deliberate kind of artist..." —WOLF KAHN (from a personal correspondence)

"I am especially impressed with your brush work. You have a real feel for working with a small combo." —HARRY GOLDSON (jazz clarinetist)