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Frol Boundin (Coming Soon)
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Mike Rizzo |
Jessica Chao |
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Trish Booth
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Trish Booth's vision of the world outside is both shocking
and captivating. A first-glance realism quickly slips into a
dreamlike hyper-realism, which utilizes a stunningly fresh color
palette, and brims with striking contrasts. Trish Booth's bold,
expansive canvases have hung in more than twenty galleries
nationwide, and have also appeared at the Booth Museum of Western
Art in Georgia, the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in New York, and
reside in the permanent collections of the University of New Mexico
and the Desert Caballeros Western Museum. Trish Booth is a graduate
of the San Francisco Art Institute, and currently resides with her
husband in Truchas, New Mexico.Artist StatementVernacular and historic architecture along with landscape are the vehicles I use to convey isolation and otherness. Representational yet surreal, paintings inhabit a twilight zone between reality and imagination. Abstracting the images to various degrees further incorporates a sense of mystery allowing structures and landscapes to read as symbolic spaces--as portals or refuges.Artwork: Trish Booth. Rio Grande Gorge Afternoon. Oil on canvas, 24" x 24" Back |
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Jessica Chao |
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The paintings and lithographs of Jessica Chao immerse the viewer
into a dream world where the familiar is subtly (and not so subtly)
transformed into the peculiar; where figures emerge and/or are
submerged in oceans of ambiguity; where animals and humans share
space and sometimes bodies; where the topography of hair becomes a
tentative roadmap for what lies beneath. Jessica’s work has appeared
in several local galleries, and art shows. An emerging talent, she
graduates with a BFA from the University of New Mexico this spring.
She resides in Albuquerque.Artist Statement"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures." - Jessamyn WestPaintings, drawings, and prints are used to illustrate my ongoing fascination with psychological 'states of being'. I often portray 'out of the ordinary' states of being by altering familiar surroundings, objects, or attributes associated with typical human behavior. These familiar yet subtly deceptive 'out of the ordinary' states can be complex, but can also seem quite obvious in their presentation. It is my intention to emphasize, as well as 'peculiarize', the familiar, drawing attention to undercurrents of hidden meaning. Psychological states can be implied through carefully orchestrated narrative moments. These moments are glimpses; not simply motion stills, but captured moments through which the subject engages the observer, allowing the observer to react to the subject's experience. Artwork: Jessica Chao. Self-Portrait. Oil on canvas, 24" x 30" Back |
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Elizabeth Haidle |
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If an old Sears-Roebuck catalog could dream, its fantasies would
look something like Elizabeth Haidle’s elaborately delicate
conglomerations of Victorian machinery and household objects. These
elegant and surprising pieces are all beautifully rendered on
birch-wood panels, and combine precision of line with a truly
imaginative concept. Elizabeth is a painter, printmaker, and
illustrator whose work has appeared on gallery walls in Santa Fe,
Taos, Portland, OR, and Philadelphia, PA. She has also illustrated
numerous book and album covers, and children’s stories for
publishers such as Sony Music and Random House. Elizabeth holds an
MA from Savannah College of Art and Design. She is currently an
Artist-in-Residence at Herekeke near Taos, NM.Artist StatementMy interest in line, color and pattern began as an infant, staring at my mother’s 1970’s paisley polyester blouses. Later, I became fascinated with intricacies found in the natural world: unicellular diatoms, sea-borne plankton, snowflakes under a microscope. My favorite art reinterprets life with a twist of ‘…what if?’.I like mixing opposing and surprising qualities, to elicit the universal sense of curiosity that all human beings share, and that some have tragically forgotten. Current topical obsessions dictate the materials & techniques used: toner, graphite & ink on clayboard, relief prints with hand-printed type, watercolor with salt & wax, etc. Artwork: Elizabeth Haidle. Bloom-bot #3: the Aero-Aroma Model. Acrylic, Gouache and ink on birch, 20" x 20". |
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Mike Rizzo |
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Master screen printer, Mike Rizzo has produced an extraordinary body
of limited edition fine art prints, which meld a pop-art sensibility
with references to everything from ancient cave paintings to trains,
from graffiti to graveyards. The crisp lines and electrifying colors
of these large format original prints resound like thunder in a
canyon. Mike has exhibited in many local galleries. He lives and
creates art in Rio Rancho, NM. Artwork: Mike Rizzo. Nine Wheels. Serigraph on archival paper, 22" x 27" |
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Harlan Taft |
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Harlan Taft is a self-taught, reclusive native of northern New
Mexico. He has chosen to obscure his identity with a pseudonym, and
he doesn't come to art shows. He desires the focus to be on the
work, and not on the artist as a personality. Mr. Taft has utilized
an idiosyncratic color palette and an unorthodox eye for composition
to create a small body of work which participates in a
post-minimalist aesthetic, while drawing inspiration from geography
and landscape, as well as current and historical events.Artist StatementAccording to Joseph Brodsky, the goal of poetry is “to make the future more tolerable.” I believe that is one of the purposes of all art, and my hope is that this work participates in some small way in that goal. The work examines place and time. Always there is a specific reference in mind; sometimes this is made explicit, other times the viewer is given the opportunity to fill in the details, to relate what he or she sees to his or her own experience. The viewer’s reading is no less valid than the artists’ original spark. The panels, both solid wood and plywood, are an important part of the overall composition, and are meant to evoke solidity, and a rootedness in place and time. Most of the panels were salvaged from structures: a house, an office building, a shed. Artwork: Harlan Taft. Swamp. Acrylic and oil on wood panel. |
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