Wilde Meyer Gallery is bringing in the new year with selections of our favorite art and new artists in our show "New Year, New Beginnings". Master glass artist Tom Philabaum’s Precarious Rock glass sculptures and blown glass vessels merge texture and form. Josiane Childers, a recent addition to Wilde Meyer's artist roster, creates abstract mixed media paintings as artistic journey to understand ideals like perfection, harmony and order. Deb Komitor’s paintings read poetic in scenes of flittering birds dancing in the moonlight. Deb "dances with her paint brush and plays with her paint". Also showing will be new work by contemporary abstract figurative painter Sherri Belassen, portraits of meditative, deep thinking chimps by Jeff Cochran and Fauvist colored landscapes of the Southwest by Barbara Gurwitz. Merlin Cohen’s carved stone sculptures will also be featured, along with other artists.

"New Year, New Beginnings" runs January 5, 2012 and continues through February 1, 2012.

This Holiday season, collect and share art with one of a kind objects that can be enjoyed year round.

Colores presents, "Vintage Cars and Country Classics," celebrating cars of all types including collectible and nostalgic "in your grille" classics to late model trucks puttering along rural roads. Dogs joyride in Jeeps through canyons in Connie Townsend’s paintings. Relive the age when chrome was king in Bill Colt’s mixed media paintings of classic Cadillacs and Buicks and 1950s street scenes. Vintage cars pull up into Motels and drive thru cinemas that rise out from desert plants in Stephen Morath’s modern Western scenes. Leigh Gusterson creates scenes of pastoral beauty painted in contrasting bright and muted colors of country roads stretching along fields, a barn, or, spanning a canyon river.

"Vintage Cars and Country Classics" runs January 5, 2012 through February 1, 2012.

Wilde Meyer Gallery highlights a convergence of Contemporary art with Western art. Showcasing an eclectic collection of art, including indigenous wildlife and old west scenes along with stylized figurative works in various media, the show will appeal to diverse tastes.

Wildlife and birds are a favorite subject for Sushe Felix whose sleek modernist landscapes feature road runners and prickly pear cactus, owls burrowing in saguaro or groups of hummingbirds enjoying a feast of flowers. Sarah Webber’s expressionistic brushwork infuses her animal portraits with energy, and reality of personality. Paul Sheldon muses on antique photos to create unexpectedly colorful paintings of authentic, working cowboys in everyday Western life. In Jim Nelson’s paintings, Native American portraits are a metaphor of human life and emotion merging with animal spirits and the nature. Also showing will be Doug Weigel’s Petro-glyph inspired steel sculptures, ceramic animal sculptures by Kari Rives and art by many others.

“Contemporary and Western” opens January 5, 2012 and continues through January 28, 2012.

Wilde Meyer presents "Variety" with four artists who explore various subjects in diverse forms and materials.

Sherri Belassen divides and shapes her stylized figure silhouettes with lines, texture and layers, dissolving foreground with background. She pinpoints a feeling, idea or emotion to represent iconic figures and animals of the Southwest such as cowboys, steers, horses. In other subjects, she represents activities like skiing, Pilates a pair of dancers or moods like a couple romantically leaning into each other to a figure relaxing in a hammock.

Merlin Cohen’s sculptures are gem stones carved into fluid forms which are interpretations of the Mobius strip, an infinite ribbon that twists into itself. In other works, Cohen balances the natural pattern and fissures he discovers in the stones with simple, geometric shapes.

Much like the water carving canyons that often appear in her paintings, Acacia Alder molds thick brush marks that have a sculptural relief effect. Alder leads viewers on a pleasing journey into her own canyons, river beds and fields.

A quick and spontaneous painter, Karen Bezuidenhout draws from her memories of her childhood home in rural South Africa. Using an earthy palette, Bezuidenhout animals and farm scenes convey energy.

"Variety" opens on Thursday, February 2, 2012 and continues through February 29, 2012

"In the Company of Horses" features art about equines, from gentle pastoral scenes to crisp renderings of the equine in motion. This exhibition presents interpretations, and examines visual and emotional aspects of these stunning animals.

A meticulous artist, Chaille Trevor has studied equines from all points of view, evaluating form, in groups and solitary. Chaille translates her life spent in the company of horses, showing and training them, into paintings capturing the essence of what really knowing horses is all about.

In her painterly portraits of burros, Sarah Webber captures personality revealed in a charming glance. Master watercolorist, Patricia Hunter captures the essence and soul of the wild equine, the zebra, through their eyes. Lisa Gordon’s miniature bronze sculptures present horses in humorous situations, wrapped in a tutu or precariously balancing on a ball. Carolyne Hawley depicts the power and strength of large equines and work horses in a traditional western style. With idealized equine forms floating in timeless, boundless space, Suzanne Betz’s mixed media paintings epitomize spiritual calm and serenity. Expressionistic painter Tracy Miller literally splashes color and applies thick paint to multicolored equine and animal paintings to convey a sense of energy and vibrancy. Equines in stylized variations in all shapes and forms can be found in art by Amy Novelli, Sherri Belassen, Karen Bezuidenhout, Trevor Mikula and many others.

“In the Company of Horses” opens on Thursday, February 3, 2012 and continues through March 2, 2012.

Wilde Meyer Gallery presents our annual exhibition, "The Gem Show," featuring miniature and small works of art by over 50 artists. Also included is the work of Merlin Cohen, who gives different meaning to the work "Gem".

Sushe Felix paints stylized desert landscapes and hummingbird families in stylized interpretations. Interpretative landscapes can be seen by Fran Larsen, who incorporates handmade painted frames for each painting. Light and shadow are captured beautifully in paintings of peaceful evenings or mornings in Michael Baum’s naturalistic Southwest paintings. In little, painted worlds, Judith D’Agostino’s dog portraits capture candid and spontaneous snapshots, and Ryan Hale’s petite interior scenes expose the secret life of cats lounging on recliners, observing art.

Sculptures included in “The Gem Show” are the petite, ceramic sculptures of dogs, figures, birds and animals by Kari Rives. Collectors and visitors will be able to look forward to the miniature paintings of Bill Colt, Sherri Belassen, Barbara Gurwitz, Lori Faye Bock, Sheridan Brown and many others.

Also showing will be Merlin Cohen’s sculptures which are true gems, carved from calcite or alabaster stone and polished into sensuous forms.

Wilde Meyer Gallery presents art inspired by, Native American folklore, or native creatures. Cultures and relationships of people to the natural world are explored in our show "Art and the Natural World".

With his childhood spent near Pacific Northwest Indian reservations, Jim Nelson grew up to revere and respect Native American culture. His art reveals his understanding and influence of Native American folklore. Contrasting with modern times, Nelson understands Indian figures are a metaphor for a time when there was a connection of humankind with nature and the animal world. Some of Jim’s paintings reference specific legends, and reveal his vast knowledge and research of Native American folklore.

Sushe Felix depicts natural rhythms of life and nature with in her paintings. A hummingbird visits a flower or a rain shower moves across mesas and mountains, Sushe gives order and composition to the world through stylized organic and geometric forms.

Kristen Knight re-imagines Southwest depictions. Beginning with a collage of antique images, she renders equines, buffaloes or Native American images in elegant lines and shapes which are then covered with resin varnish. The paintings merge the history of the layers with the glossiness of the surface so that the images float in a sleek liquid space.

Deb Komitor’s paintings present an unspoken narrative portraying Southwest wildlife in Southwest settings. The animals that appear in Komitor’s paintings are imbued with symbolic meaning: a bird flitters with beatific halo symbolizing heavenly freedom, a bear lumbers through life, and the fox is the protector. See works by these artists and many more.

Opening during Native Arts Artwalk on Thursday March 1, 2012, "Art and the Natural World" continues through April 4, 2012.

"Introductions" is a group show with established and up-and-coming artists new for Wilde Meyer Gallery in Tucson.

Martha Braun explores color relationships and harmony In her color field abstract paintings. Kristen Knight’s resin varnished paintings feature skillfully rendered animals hovering over a patchwork collage background of antique papers and book pages. In non-traditional paintings on glass, Melinda Curtin’s playful imagery of Southwest themes such as day of the dead and stylized equines add new life to reclaimed vintage windows in which her paintings are framed.

Also on display will the masterful landscapes of Southwest roadside motels and desert scenery by Stephen Morath with paintings and sculptures by many artists including Jim Budish, Alix Stefan, Barbara Gurwitz, Ka Fisher, Sherri Belassen and others.

"Introductions to Tucson" shows Thursday, March 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012.

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