Jeff Uffelman

Jeff Uffelman is a painter who brings immense energy to his still-life paintings.  Uffelman says of his practice, "I’m in a funny position. I’m a still life painter who is as fond of abstraction as realism. The seemingly random marks and gestures of abstraction are of great interest to me. I do not celebrate the order and logic of a still life arrangement. Instead, I lean toward the randomness of abstraction. To balance this casualness, I pay a great deal of attention to the rendering of the chosen objects. Ultimately, it’s a struggle between awkwardness and beauty. My hope is that this approach produces a unique tension in my work."

Uffelman has a long history of working with galleries in Santa Fe and in the West, and recently joined Weems Gallery in 2026.