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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

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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

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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.


Bennett: Solstice

Image: © NOËL BENNETT
"First Solstice"
Acrylic, 54" x 48"
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NOËL BENNETT

324 Magdalena
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-989-9988
By Appointment

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www.noelbennett.com remote
Email: noelbennett@stanfordalumni.org


The Infinite Moment: mating spirituality and sensuality

The Infinite Moment, a four decade painting/sculpture exploration, has its genesis during the eight years I lived and wove with the Navajo. There, at the loom, I was gifted with legends, songs and stories that clarify the cosmos and enrich the spirit. According to legend, the Navajo loom—with its soaring uprights and top horizontal crossbeams—was created by the sacred union of Father Sky and Mother Earth. To weave on this loom is to be at the energy center of a balanced cosmos (hozhóji) where epic, primordial, elemental energies are channeled to the weaver and her art.

In time, I came to see the loom as a symbol of profound unity.
For in the infinite moment in which Sky mates Earth, so too: warp and weft; post and lintel; male and female; human and nature; spirit and matter.
Unity out of duality. Two becoming One.
beauty.
balance.
blessing.
hozhoji.

In my art I symbolize hozhóji—in all its dimensionality—as the spiritual and sensual mating of horizontal and vertical.


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

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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

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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.


Dubay: Encaustics

Image: © Kathy Dubay
"E=MC2"
Encaustic, 20" x 16"
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Kathy Dubay

3600 Cerrillos Road Suite#1005A
Santa Fe, NM 87507
505-603-1300
By Appointment

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www.katdubay.com remote
Email: Kdubay2027@aol.com email

I fell in love with encaustics the very first time I tried them. The inability to completely control the medium was very appealing to me. I threw away my paint brush and replaced it with a blow torch.

I also show at Lynnefineart remote in Scottsdale Az., and The Edmund Craig Gallery remote in Fort Worth Tx.


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

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


Guth: Emotions

Image: © Germaine Guth
"Emotions Under Glass: Chaos"
Silks, threads, bubble wrap, acrylic box
12" x 12" x 18"
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Germaine Guth

505-983-1237
By Appointment

www.ahasantafe.com remote
www.germaineguth.com remote
Email: germaine9@msn.com

 

I play with art subjects – both literally and figuratively. My chosen media are fibers, precious metals and stone formed into sculptures.

I love words and their connotations. I also love the dichotomy of soft and sensuous fibers – mostly silks – juxtaposed with precious metals and stone. I love to take a fantasy and make it reality; or take a reality and make it a fantasy.


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

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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, El Centro Mall, 102 E. Water St. SantaFe, NM 87501 505-820-6063.

Outside of Santa Fe, Brenda is represented by
Hensley Gallery Southwest, 311 Paseo del Pueblo Norte in Taos, NM505-758-8088
and 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

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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


Wilson: Lost Strand

Image: © Lucinda Lynch
"Offset"
Mixed media on paper and panels,
30" x 30" x 4"
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Lucinda Lynch

1615 Young Street
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505-988-1717
By Appointment

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Email:lucinda@lucindalynch.com

 

My art is about experiencing and examining the world and human interaction. My latest series is a group of layered panel paintings with cut out holes called “Receding Earth”. These paintings deal with the destruction of the earth through pollution, global warming and war. The holes are reminders of the loss human and the various species are undergoing.

I work with natural pigments and oil pastels to give my work vivid colors conveying the sense of beauty and bounty the earth has to offer.


Lyon:Byron

Image: © Michele Lyon
"Byron"
Acrylic, 20" x 16"
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Michele Lyon

P.O. Box 32172
Santa Fe, NM 87594
505-699-9823
By Appointment

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www.michelelyonart.com remote
Email: michele@michelelyonart.com

 

“In a world of hard realities I like to infuse a little whimsy, beauty, and humor – wherever I can, so as not to forget what can be.”

Michele Lyon paints in acrylic. She has a unique ability to achieve the look of oil without the drawbacks and specializes in “fooling the eye.” With humor and taste she decided to paint anthropomorphic art rarely done in the art community, utilizing her love of classicism of the 17th to 19th centuries. It is her desire to reclaim the past using modern techniques. She also paints; historical figures, Native American Indians, whimsical art scenes and contemporary art (using a mixed media).

Michele has lived throughout the west and Southwest. She was born in Los Angeles and has lived up and down the west coast including Seattle for many years. She now resides in Santa Fe. Her father was a well known artist in Taos for over 35 years: Frank O Lyon. She grew up in that art community around other well known artists such as; R. C. Gorman and Kelly Pruitt. Her formal training and education came via her father and the galleries and bronze foundry he owned. She also attended colleges in the northwest majoring in; art, art history and interior design. Her love of interior design and working for over 18 years in that field has enabled her to understand the buyer and the desire for homeowners to achieve richness to their lives. She has participated in various art venues all around the west.


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

www.ahasantafe.com remote
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

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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

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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 19 members.


Patricia Amlin

Judy Asbury

NOËL BENNETT

Carrie Bowers

Ke'vin Bowers

Jane Chavez

Shirley Crow

Kathy Dubay

Carol Fallis

Pamela Frankel Fiedler

Germain Guth

Brenda Howell

Sandy Keller

Lucinda lynch

Michele Lyon

George-Anne Roberts

Rupama

Leah Siegel

Carol Sky


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