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BEST OF THE WEST: WEST COAST
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... CALIFORNIA Provocative Self-Portraits SAN FRANCISCO * The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art features an exhibition of self-portraits by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo this month. The presentation includes about 50 paintings, ranging from the beginning of Kahlo's career in ...
BEST OF THE WEST: ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... WYOMING Plein-Air Show Debuts CHEYENNE * The inaugural Wyoming Plein Air show and sale unfolds this month at The Link Gallery (307.778.0330, www.linkgalleryonline.com) and Deselms Fine Art (307.432.0606, www.deselmsfineart.com). The artists paint on location prior to the show, ...
Art Endures
Aug 01, 2008; Bucher, Kristin ... Even in difficult times, the power of creativity never wanes IT'S HARD TO PAY ATTENTION TO current events these days without getting at least a little bit concerned. Between gas prices, housing-market woes, rising unemployment, a faltering stock market, and election uncertainty, the ...
ARTISTS TO WATCH
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... our picks for today's rising stars Liliana Simanton Born in Argentina, landscape painter Liliana Simanton grew up in a home where interest in the arts was encouraged and nourished. Simanton's father, a commercial illustrator, spent long hours at his drafting table, she recalls, ...
BEST OF THE WEST: BEYOND THE WEST
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... MASSACHUSETTS Summer Shows ORLEANS * Recent paintings by several artists are on display this month at Tree's Place Gallery. The month kicks off with a group show titled Observations in Nature: A Classical Approach to Landscape Painting, which is on display August 2-7 and features ...
BEST OF THE WEST: SOUTHWEST
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... evenings / exhibits / events / auctions NEW MEXICO Art Galore The City Different buzzes with art activity this month SANTA FE * It's the busiest month of the year in Santa Fe, and a slew of gallery shows are taking place all over the city. Altermann Galleries ...
INDIAN TERRITORY
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... WHEN MIKE AND JUANITA EAGLE PURCHASED A SMALL HOPI DOLL while on vacation nearly 30 years ago, they never imagined they had taken the first step to becoming passionate collectors of Native American art. Today the California couple has amassed a dazzling array of works in a home custom-built for ...
My World
Aug 01, 2008; Gangelhoff, Bonnie ... A VISIT WITH SUSAN SIMON AT HER STUDIO IN EVERGREEN, CO Your studio is 8,500 feet up in the mountains. How do your surroundings influence your work? I am constantly looking out the windows to see the interactions between the animals. There is so much wildlife here-deer, elk, ...
WINNING STREAK
Aug 01, 2008; Schneider, Wolf ... Colorado artist Karmel Timmons is winning awards aplenty with her equine drawings HER FIRST AWARD was in 2000, just a year after she started drawing, when she scooped up best of show at the local county fair. A few years later, she nabbed the people's choice award at the Buffalo Bill Art ...
Preserving the Landscape
Aug 01, 2008; Ptak, Elisabeth ... This excerpt from a new book showcases six artists who participate in the annual Ranches & Rolling Hills art show, which helps protect California's unspoiled western Marin County By Elisabeth Ptak FEW PLACES in the United States provide a pastoral landscape as appealing and memorable ...
A Simple Plan
Aug 01, 2008; Campbell, Virginia ... UTAH ARTIST G. RUSSELL CASE PAINTS ELEMENTAL LANDSCAPES THAT EXPRESS EMOTION AND GRANDEUR ARTISTS WHO ASPIRE to simplicity in their work have a daunting challenge. The fewer gestures an artist makes, the weightier each one becomes. For landscape artists with a modernist attraction to ...
LATIN AMERICAN ART
Aug 01, 2008; Carstens, Rosemary ... Edward Gonzales' art transcends ethnic boundaries SOME ARTISTS paint what they see; others paint what they dream. Edward Gonzales paints visions of what it means to be Hispanic in America. Gonzales grew up beneath the hot New Mexico sun, shaped by poverty and surrounded by the ...
DRAWN FROM NATURE
Aug 01, 2008; Kolpas, Norman ... Brian Grimm's painterly oils of western wildlife derive from a lifelong pursuit of artistic excellence By Norman Kolpas EXCITEMENT BUZZED through the first grade at Elgin Elementary School in little Elgin, TX, 25 miles east of Austin. Pencils in hand, the best artists in the class ...
A Win-Win SITUATION
Aug 01, 2008; Jackson, Devon ... A SAMPLING OF AWARD WINNERS FROM THIS YEAR'S OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION, HELD IN MONTANA IN MAY BY DEVON JACKSON HOWARD FRIEDLAND /AMERICAN NATIONAL AWARD OF EXCELLENCE "My art tends to be loose and impressionistic, which probably has something to do with ...
INDIAN [NOT INDIAN]
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE THIS FALL CELEBRATES THE REVOLUTIONARY AND COMPLEX LIFE AND CAREER OF FRITZ SCHOLDER On November 1, the exhibit Frit: Scholder: Indian/Not Indian opens at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, and the George Gustav Heye Center in New York ...
A Sacred Assignment
Aug 01, 2008; Fauntleroy, Gussie ... Pahponee's pottery emerged from a powerful experience that continues to guide her art and her life TO CREATE Her very first pot, Pahponee-who goes by her Kickapoo name, which means Snow Woman-used 20th-century ceramic techniques, wheel-forming the vessel and firing it in an electric ...
SIGHT UNSEEN
Aug 01, 2008; Fauntleroy, Gussie ... SCULPTOR MICHAEL NARANJO SENSES THE LIVING ESSENCE OF THE PIECES HE CREATES IN CLAY, WAX, AND STONE BEFORE HE TOUCHED Michelangelo's monumental marble sculpture of David, Michael Naranjo had tried carving stone. He thought he had done a fair job of it, for someone without sight and with ...