Scottsdale
Standing in Blue 46" x 40"Wilde Meyer Gallery showcases art that celebrates the uniqueness of life in the desert with “Something about the Southwest”.
Life is better as shown in Linda Carter Holman’s paintings. Carter Holman’s characters carry a bouquet of lilies in perfect satisfaction, indifferent to the distant storm over distant mesas, and other ladies sing of happiness and joy as they prepare for a luncheon on the terrace.
Stephen Morath takes viewers on a journey through a desert countryside loaded with Cholla, prickly pear, Saguaro and native shrubs. Morath often sets a vintage motel, car or other nostalgic elements in his prickly surroundings.
Using paint with unexpected materials like fabric, buttons, printed clippings, Charles Davison’s playful collages feature cowboys sporting big hats, fancy shirts and tiny dogs at their boots or Indians wearing funky headdresses and patchwork robes.
With swirling brush marks and earthy colors, Ka Fisher’s narrative paintings tell of native merchants selling wares at a roadside market or a woman observing her prize horse along the thicket.
Also showing will be abstracted equine paintings by Helen Durant, a new artist at Wilde Meyer, along with art by Paul Sheldon, Lance Green and many others.
"Something about the Southwest" opens May 3, 2012 and continues through June 6, 2012.
Temptation 30 " x 40 "Colores showcases the creative spirit of the imaginative art by an eclectic group of artists in "Interiors, Objects and Little Worlds."
The idea of an "interior space" is rearranged creatively in Judy Feldman’s Fauvist colored paintings and Diane Barbee’s paintings of multicolored, variously patterned furniture. Ryan Hale’s interiors feature cats lounging in modernist homes. Far removed from reality are the funny and playful paintings by Trevor Mikula, whose colorful animal characters are posed in hats or balancing atop each other. Paintings by Andrea Peterson introduce viewers to mystical figures and animals set in mysterious worlds. Also showing will be art by Connie Townsend, Joseph E. Young, Robert Ransom and many others.
"Interiors, Objects and Little Worlds" opens May 3, 2012 and continues through June 6, 2012.
Flow 48" x 48 " Wilde Meyer Gallery presents, "Earth and Sky" a group show featuring interpretations of landscapes from Southwest scenery painted on site to stylized, imaginative ‘scapes.
Barbara Gurwitz is well known for her Southwest scenery in saturated color painted with a free use of color painted with thick brush strokes. Robert Burt portrays rhythmic hills in his bright and colorful landscapes.
Michael Baum renders the vastness of the Southwest where windswept tree sits on the edge of a canyon or a gorge lay in the shadow of a mountain. Judith D’Agostino emphasizes layers creating a sense of depth. In his paintings, Albert Scharf’s burnt orange clouds stack atop each other in infinite climes, capturing light of eternal sunsets in rusty red skies.
Striking an emotional chord with a moody and mysterious feel, Jeff Cochran’s landscapes portray the countryside’s isolated fields and stark, lonely roads in sepia tones or subdued color. Gregory Stocks paints tranquil landscapes where a tree grove basks in glowing light along a brook, or a forest lake in perfect calmness and quietude. In Robert Anderson’s landscapes, fields of wildflowers formed like a bouquet appear in fields ascending into pastures toward the heavens.
Also showing will be Lawrence Taylor’s paintings of cultivated flower gardens, Alix Stefan’s desert scenery featuring native cacti and trees and art by many others.
“Earth and Sky” runs May 3, 2012 through May 26, 2012.
Scottsdale
Construction in Orange 24.5 " x 24.5 "Wilde Meyer Gallery presents "Light and Dark," showcasing abstract and stylized art.
Sherri Belassen masterfully explores color and composition in her stylized figure paintings with subject matter that includes anything from women eating ice cream to steers and cowboys.
Robert Charon expresses the idea of "fluidity" in many ways from the thick resin varnish on his top view koi pond pictures to colorful, landscape inspired flowing stripes and color-field paintings.
Creating paintings that fill the periphery, Ryan Hale's patches of vibrant shades of red peek through the enveloping earthy grey, ochre and umber. Robert Anderson’s abstract paintings are a meditation on transition and time, where organic swirls of color are depicted in a state of convergence.
Also showing will be abstracts by Josiane Childers along with abstracted figure paintings by Brenda Bredvik, stylized landscapes by Monika Rossa and art by many others.
Hula Hoop 3.5" x 4" x 2.5" Colores presents our group exhibition, "Fire and Heat" featuring art made using a furnace, kiln or welding torch to create ceramic and glass sculptures, vessels and objects.
In his "Precarious Rock" series Tom Philabaum’s blown glass sculptures have the illusion of stones balanced on top of each other or tipping over.
In witty, miniature cast bronze sculptures Lisa Gordon depicts horses dancing on beach balls or sporting tutus. Kari Rives’s glazing and hand building technique give her ceramic animal sculptures the softness of sheep’s wool or the coarseness of bison hair.
Dave Fiore high relief wall sculptures incorporates ceramics, steel and glass, depicting native plants and desert scenes in a rich palette that includes deep red, jade green and golden yellow. Also on display will be welded steel sculptures by Doug Weigel, fun and playful small ceramics by Kathryn Blackmun, landscape paintings by Alix Stefan and art in various media by many others.
"Fire and Heat" opens June 7, 2012 and continues through July 3, 2012.
Cactus Cantina 30" x 36" Wilde Meyer Gallery showcases art that celebrates the uniqueness of life in the desert with "Something about the Southwest."
Life is better as shown in Linda Carter Holman’s paintings. Carter Holman’s character carries a bouquet of lilies in perfect satisfaction, indifferent to the distant storm over a far away mesa, and other ladies sing of happiness and joy as they prepare for a luncheon on the terrace.
Stephen Morath takes viewers on a journey through a desert countryside loaded with Cholla, prickly pear, Saguaro and native shrubs. Morath often sets a vintage motel, car or other nostalgic elements in his prickly surroundings.
Using paint with unexpected materials like fabric, buttons, printed clippings, Charles Davison’s playful collages feature cowboys sporting big hats, fancy shirts and tiny dogs at their boots or Indians wearing funky headdresses and patchwork robes. With swirling brush marks and earthy colors, Ka Fisher’s narrative paintings tell of native merchants selling wares at a roadside market or a woman observing her prize horse in the thicket. Also showing will be abstracted equine paintings by Amanda Wilner, a new artist at Wilde Meyer, along with art by Paul Sheldon, and many others.
"Something about the Southwest" opens June 7, 2012 and continues through June 30, 2012.
Scottsdale
Recent Addition to the Genus Equus 48" x 72"Wilde Meyer Gallery showcases diverse artwork including landscapes, figure paintings and abstracts created by locally-based, Arizona artists in "A View of Arizona".
Sherri Belassen creates sophisticated color arrangements of stylized silhouettes with subjects that include anything from figures eating ice cream, Cowboys to steers. Belassen’s art contrasts loose brushwork with delineated lines and flat shapes with carefully gradated shapes that disappear into the texture of the canvas.
In charming scenes of Noah’s ark or Saint Francis, Charles Davison creates playful collages from fabric, buttons, printed clippings and found objects. Timothy Chapman’s witty paintings present visual puns with zebras sporting black and white floral patterns and birds claiming territory over minute trees.
Barbara Gurwitz’s landscapes show mountain villages set along rivers with orchards, fields let viewers experience the Southwest in saturated color. Chaille Trevor explores a wide range of emotional spaces in her paintings of horses gathered in groups, from an energetic remuda to sensitive portrayals of mare with stallion.
In Andrea Peterson paintings, femmes confront mystical worlds and interact with them. Along with his signature red, Ryan Hale’s new series of paintings explore color combinations of swathes of gray with shades of ochre suffused crisp blue shapes. David Fiore, a new artist at Wilde Meyer, creates substantial, high-relief wall sculptures using ceramic, glass and steel to render a variety of surfaces and textures in his colorful desert scenes.
Also showing will be paintings by Thomas Nelford, Brian Boner, Robert Charon and many others.Please visit us during Summer Spectacular Artwalk on July 5, 7-9p.m.
“A View of Arizona” opens July 5, 2012 and continues through August 1, 2012.
Come To Say Hello 48" x 60"Colores highlights a convergence of Contemporary art with Western art. With an eclectic collection of art that includes indigenous wildlife and old west scenes along with stylized figurative works in various media, "Contemporary and Western" will appeal to diverse tastes.
Linda Carter Holman creates her personal vision of a dreamlike Southwest that combines figurative stylizations with free play with scale and pictorial space. In one of Linda’s paintings, dancing cowgirls tower over a small shrub in the corner of the picture, which, upon closer inspection, transforms into a miniature landscape with a small tree, miniature fence and distant skyline.
Ka Fisher portrays a patchwork of the Southwest texture in broad brush strokes she sees as horses play on the open range or scenes where people visit a bustling, canyon market.
Wildlife and cattle are favorite subjects for Sarah Webber, who paints expressionistic animal portraits with spontaneity and poise. Amy Novelli focuses on textures, lines and colors of wildlife such as coyotes, roadrunners or bison in her encaustic paintings.
Colorful outlines contrast with subdued background in Paul Sheldon’s panoramic Southwest landscapes and his paintings of working cowboys in everyday Western life. Jim Nelson’s Native American figure paintings radiate confetti of color and animal shapes as he interprets the connection of man with nature. Also showing will be Doug Weigel’s ocotillo and cacti inspired steel sculptures and much more art by many others.
Please visit us during Summer Artwalk Spectacular on Thursday, July 5, 2012, 7-9p.m.
"Contemporary and Western" shows July 5, 2012 and continues through August 1, 2012.
