Category: painting

  • Spurring Dialogues, Durango Herald, Oct. 10, 2008

    Pagosa Springs art show urges talk of intangibles “Bird Woman” by Carrianne Hendrickson is a ceramic sculpture featured in “Dialogues.” Ceramic artists stand out in the new show at the Shy Rabbit Gallery in Pagosa Springs. Jeff Pender, from Charlotte, N.C., is one of the artists sparking conversation in an exhibit titled “Dialogues.” His elegant…

  • Reaction to Space at Gallerie Urbane, Marfa

    Monica Goldsmith Jason Willaford and Ted Larsen Gail Peter Borden Rebecca Rothfus and Jason Willaford “Reaction to Space” at Gallerie Urbane in Marfa, TX features gallery artists, Gail Peter Borden, a former Chinati Artist-In-Resident, Ted Larsen, a recent recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Award and Marfa artist Jason Willaford, with visiting artists, Monica Goldsmith, recently added…

  • Matt Magee at Eight Modern in Santa Fe

    :Anagram: by Matt Magee From Eight Modern Gallery: New York artist Matt Magee creates graphic systems of language based on an internal, undefined lexicon of shapes and colors. His art is inspired by his Texas childhood, much of which was spent accompanying his geologist father to sites of Native American ruins and pictographs throughout the…

  • All in the paintings, Durango Herald, June 3, 2008

    Review Rance Hood: Mystic Painter by Rance Hood and James J. Hester, University of New Mexico Press. 176 pages, 71 color plates, 138 color photos, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 map, $39.95 hardback. Collectors edition with an original drawing by Hood, signed by the artist and dated March 2008 are available at Rain Dance…

  • Art in springtime, Durango Herald, May 9, 2008

    Explore Downtown during Durango’s Gallery Walk Jami Tobey will be at the Rain Dance Gallery to talk about her paintings like “Wildflowers,” shown here. Twice a year, Durango galleries get together and host a gallery walk. They invite artists to show up and mingle with guests, chill the Pellegrino and put out a plate of…

  • Disturbed and Disturbing, Durango Herald, Feb. 22, 2008

    Artist explores fraying center in DAC Library Gallery Show Kevin Bell’s oil, “Mountains,” on display this month at the Durango Arts Center Library, shows the painter’s use of blank space to emphasize what he decides to depict. It is part of his “Land Objects” series. Bell’s “Domestic Disturbances” series of paintings emphasizes the calm of…

  • Artist’s close in on meaning of ‘Home,’ Durango Herald, Jan. 29, 2008

    Julian Colby, son of FLC art instructor Chad Colby, plays with Amy Wendland’s sculpture, “Small Town.” What happens when artists, writers and performers get together and decide to mount an exhibition? If the group is Durango’s elusive Art Discussion Group, they decided to explore the meaning of “Home” and turn it into a well-attended opening…

  • Easy lookin’, Durango Herald, Jan. 18, 2008

    It may not be the most unique work we have in the region, but it does reflect life in the Four Corners – beautiful, pleasant, and a bit colorful and challenging.

  • Color as field, Durango Herald, Dec. 28, 2007

    Top: Frankenthaler’s “Flood, 1967” is synthetic polymer on canvas (124 by 140 inches). Middle: Mark Rothko’s oil “Number 18, 1951,” is 81 by 69 inches. Bottom: Helen Frankenthaler’s 1973 acrylic on canvas”Off White Square” (79 by 235 inches) is in the Denver Art Museum show “Color as Field: American Painting 1950-1975.” All photographs are courtesy…

  • Big art versus bad art at DAC, Durango Herald, Nov. 30, 2007

    Library Gallery show hits a broad spectrum Judy Brey’s ceramic sculpture “Tiny Dancer” ($225) is part of the “Smaller Than a Breadbox” show. The DAC Library Gallery is a small, cramped space like an attic, with a sloped ceiling and low-level bookshelves. For many years, local artist Mary Ellen Long and a committee that currently…