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Amlin: Whiskey Jack

Image: © Patricia Amlin
"Whiskey Jack at 25 Below"
Oil on canvas, 40" x 60"
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Patricia Amlin

20 Calle Nopalitos
Santa Fe, NM 87507
505-699-1266
Studio visits welcomed

www.patriciaamlin.comremote
www.inartsantafe.com remote
Email: patriciaamlin@yahoo.com

 

Patricia Amlin, whose work is included in most major institutions in the United States including the Smithsonian, just exhibited a new series of 12 large oil paintings during January at the Gunnison Arts Center in Gunnison, Colorado.

“Flyway or Avian Abstractions; An aerial view of the amazing migration of Sand Hill Cranes from Bosque del Apache, NM to the Alaskan Tundra is inspired by the amazing physical feats of these many million year old cranes who once flew over the wooly mammoths and watched the birth of the Rocky Mountains.

The excitement of attending the dawn fly out of the thousands of warbling birds is one of the most spiritual events to be found today.“

Amlin’s interest in the subject began with a dream while she was teaching Film Making and Drawing at San Francisco State University. Patricia retired from teaching, moved to Gunnison, Colorado, across from ”Neversink”, a resting place on the Great North American Crane Flyway and began painting. She drew upon her early training at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Skowhegan School of Painting where she worked with Oscar Kokoschka, Max Weber, George Grosz and Isabel Bishop. Flying along with this classic education is her obsession from years in film with movement, time, space, natures recurring metamorphosis.

Patricia’s delight is in co-creating a single moment in a cycle when all energy is in motion. Her paintings are full of light and love of the Creation. This new series spans the crane migration over the red rocks of the desert to the cold purity of the nesting grounds of the north and the birth of a new generation of these fast disappearing remarkable birds.


Easley: Copper Flower Cans

Image: © Judy Asbury
"Sunspot"
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Judy Asbury

PO Box 170
Jemez Pueblo, NM 87024
505-834-7325
By Appointment

www.art-exchange.com remote
www.judyasbury.com remote
Email: judyasbury@yahoo.com

 

Judy Asbury’s paintings are an intuitive exploration of inner and outer realities. Asbury is an internationally recognized astronomical artist. Her expressionistic "spacescapes” are created using photographs from scientific institutions such as NASA. These oil paintings have been exhibited internationally in numerous one person and group exhibitions including a one person exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Basel Art Fair.

Asbury has resided in New Mexico since 1976, and is based in the Jemez Mountains and Santa Fe. Her expressionistic Jemez mountain landscapes have also been widely exhibited and collected, and feature surfaces embellished with gold leaf, metallics, and vivid colors.


Chavez: Basket

Image: © Jane Chavez
"El Fandango"
Horsehair and sterling silver, 9.75" dia.
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Jane Chavez

2317 Botulph Rd
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505-983-3248
By Appointment

www.janechavez.com remote
Email: ljchavez99@hotmail.com


The uniqueness of my fiber art developed from my passions for baskets, horses and Spanish metal work. My adoration for baskets was cultivated at childhood when on Saturday mornings in Argentina I would wait with excitement for a horse drawn basket cart to pass in front of our house. As it approached I would run out of the house and admire the utilitarian baskets piled high on the cart. My enthusiasm for horses has always been with me ever since I can remember and I have always had them in my life. Since living in the southwest I have become intrigued by early silver and tinwork done by the Spaniards. My art reflects a personal interpretation of these multicultural interests.

My horsehair hand stamped sterling silver baskets are contemporary in nature and traditional in materials. I use a coiled basketry technique with innovative stitching designs and imaginative sterling silver metal work. The basket’s shapes vary depending on the original hand stamped sterling silver, which serve as a base for the horsehair bundles.


Crow: Unseen World

Image: © Shirley Crow
"Unseen World"
Oil on canvas, 24" x 20"
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Shirley Crow

11 Arroyo Pequeno
Santa Fe, NM 87506
Phone: 505-820-2451
Fax: 505-989-9557
By Appointment


www.shirleycrow.com remote
Email: shirleycrow@shirleycrow.com

 

I'm interested in expressing human emotions like tranquility, appreciation of beauty and joy in a mysterious, sometimes scary dramatically changing world that has almost unimaginable possibilities.

Sometimes I am exploring unknown swirling forces surrounding an entity who may or may not be human. Forms suggest microorganisms or just energy. Lights are surrounded by darkness. The forms seem enthralled, fascinated, a part of it all.
Fascination with mystery, ambivalence of the seen and unseen and the attempt at resolution of confusion and order are some of the factors influencing my work.



Fiedler: Dragon

Image: © Pamela Frankel Fiedler
"Dragon Twins"
Oil 68" x 46"
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Pamela Frankel Fiedler

2600 Via Caballero del Norte
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505-438-9831
By Appointment

www.fffineart.com remote
Email: pamela@fffineart.com email



Howell: Isis

Image: © Brenda Howell
"Isis Temple"
Oil on canvas, 22" x 28"
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Brenda Howell

P.O. Box 599
Tesuque, NM 87574

By Appointment

www.brendahowellart.com remote
Email: bhowell@infomagic.net

 

It is great reverence for our relationship to the natural world that entices me to paint. The Grand Canyon and other sacred and stunning landscapes are deeply inspirational to me as an artist. My art making is on some level about the mystery and sharing my response to experiences in nature. The colors, textures, and patterns revealed by dramatic light inspire me. Subconscious elements of symbolism are everywhere in the natural landscape and create emotional responses that come from deep within, bypassing the left brain and connecting straight to the heart. I want to re-create the feeling that being in the particular outdoor experience gave and to learn from the experience. Each painting is an unpredictable adventure and I never know what the end result might be, but only that I have to make the attempt and see what emerges.

 

In Santa Fe Brenda is represented by
Hueys Fine Art, 217 W. San Francisco St. SantaFe, NM 87501 505-820-6063.

Outside of Santa Fe, Brenda is represented by
Gallery on Glassell, 115 N. Glassell St. Orange, CA 92866
Windrush Gallery in Sedona, AZ 928-282-7676.


Keller: Turquoise

Image: © Sandy Keller
"Turquoise Trilogy"
Acrylic/panel, 48" x 26"
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Sandy Keller

178 Camino Acote
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-466-9734
Studio Visits Welcomed

www.sandykellerart.com remote
www.waxlander.com remote
Email: sandykeller@sandykellerart.com

 

As an artist I speak through color and shape of an amorphous yet ethereal quality.

After years of representational painting in oils. I began abstracting forms in acrylic medium. Each painting provides its own unique fascination by the rhythm and movement of the colors. The random patterns reveal an unending adventure in depth and dimension, thus allowing the viewer their own interpretation.

Thepaintings contain multiple layers applied slowly - as each previous layer dictates the next passage. The revelations are surprising and breathtaking, a never-ending adventure for those who choose to gaze deeply and slowly!

Also showing at Waxlander Gallery, 622 Canyon Road, Santa Fe 505-984-2202



Roberts: Dance

Image: © George-Anne Roberts
"The Dance"
Giclee print on Arches paper,
26" x 40", Ed 20
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George-Anne Roberts

505-983-8628
By Appointment

Email: badkitty@cybermesa.com

 

My work consists of imginary landscapes and mystical drawings.


Siegel: Turbulence

Image: © Leah Siegel
"Turbulence No. 25" (detail)
Digital drawing, dimensions vary, Ed 5
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Leah Siegel

4408 Autumn Leaf Lane
Santa Fe, NM 87507
505-490-3203 voice
505-424-1309 fax
By Appointment

www.leahsiegelart.co remote
Email: LeahS45904@aol.com

My drawings and photographs are meditations on the unrest occurring in a mythic landscape, where odd shapes and strange marks emerge from dark profound space.


Sky: Cloud

Image: © Carol Sky
"Cloud Dance"
Pigment print, 32" x 40"
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Carol Sky

705 Pinon Dr
Santa Fe, NM 87510-1337
505-820-9879
By Appointment

www.skystudio-online.com remote
www.carolsky.us remote
Email: skysongs@aol.com

 

I have always looked to nature as inspiration and sustenance, with light and time as unifying threads. It is light that is the cornerstone of physics and has allowed scientists to prove that we are made of the same materials as the stars. For the last twenty years my work has focused on storms and atmospheric phenomena. I have found in storms and the movement of clouds, metaphors for all of life. I seek to convey not only the beauty of these events, but also the immense power. My hope is to remind us that we cannot control the environment, but must live with it in cooperation and respect.


Aha! A Santa Fe Group of Artists has 11 members.


Patricia Amlin

Judy Asbury

Jane Chavez

Shirley Crow

Carol Fallis

Pamela Frankel Fiedler

Brenda Howell

Sandy Keller

George-Anne Roberts

Leah Siegel

Carol Sky


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