Jill Moser Opening
Jill Moser
New Paintings
May 13 – June 18, 2011
Opening reception for the artist May 13, 2011 5-7 pm.
Jill Moser designed Jewelry
In conjunction with her exhibition at James Kelly Contemporary, Patina Gallery will host a trunk show and gallery talk with Jill Moser & Marion Cage McCollam to discuss their collaboration in the Lettres Jewelry Collection.
Lettres Jewelry Collection
The 26 letters of the alphabet as pendants in editions of silver and gold, with a smooth leather cord. A collaboration between painter Jill Moser and jewelry designer Marion Cage McCollam.
Saturday, May 14 at Patina Gallery
Trunk Show 11am – 6pm / Gallery Talk 2pm
Patina Gallery
131 West Palace Ave, Santa Fe, Nm
505-986-3432 / allison@patina-gallery.com
David Ryan Review in THE
THE review May 2011
David Ryan Opening
Opening Reception for the Artist Friday March 25th 5-7:00 pm
12 Abstractions in Dallas
Johnnie Winona Ross will be included in the upcoming show, 12 Abstractions at the Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas, TX. The show opens January 22 and runs through March 5th. The other artists in the group show include Jene Highstein, Terrell James, Bill Jensen, John Pomara, John Holt Smith, Polly Lanning SparrowLorraine Tady and Leslie Wilkes.
Johnnie Winona Ross Review
A review of Johnnie Winona Ross’ current exhibition at the Stephen Haller Gallery, NYC.
cityArts review by Maureen Mullarky, 9/14/10
Sonsini at 2×2 for AIDS + ART
John Sonsini will have a work available in the upcoming 2 x 2 for AIDS + ART benefit in Dallas on the 23rd of October. The benefit raises money for amFAR and the Dallas Museum of Art and is a great event. The link below is to John’s work which has been designated as one of Howard’s picks for the sale.
http://www.2×2catalogue.org/2010/catalogue/sonsini.html
John Sonsini, Juan Pablo Guerrero, 2007, oil on canvas
Johnnie Winona Ross at the New Mexico Museum of Art
Johnnie Ross, Dark Creek, 2008, acrylic & marble on bleached linen
Place and process are integral to the works of Arroyo Seco artist Johnnie Winona Ross, who is known for his reductive and luminous paintings that are comprised of layers upon layers of paint brushed, dripped, scraped and burnished to an extraordinary finish. The horizon, the quality of light, the seepage of
water or traces of ancient cultures on a canyon wall-these elements of the landscape all inform Ross’ grid-based paintings. This small but compelling exhibition, the artist’s first solo museum show since moving to New Mexico in 1999, will consist primarily of never-before-exhibited paintings.
Previously working in Maine, he was pulled to New Mexico by “the light, the culture, the archeology, the desert, mountains. It was austere, real, exposed, but mysterious, it was not a casual place that you just were. It was… spiritual…” His paintings can consist of up to 150 layers of paint that upon close inspection reveal a “history” of the painting’s creation. He describes his process in this way: “Repeating the mark, or the drip, scraping, burnishing, builds a physical history within the painting…. When you see worn stone steps, whether at an Anasazi site, or the Met, it is interesting to consider the scores of people that have used or are using the steps in roughly the same way; or seeing the keys on an old piano, worn with use. You realize that you are
just part of the stream of history, a large or small part, but you are only moving through.”
Johnnie Winona Ross was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1949. He
received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1971, and his M.F.A. from University of Illinois in 1973. From 1977 to 1999, he taught at Maine College of Art. He participated twice in the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program (1974-75 and 1994-95), which influenced his decision to move to New Mexico in 1999. Ross exhibits regularly in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, and throughout Northern New Mexico. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Gottlieb Foundation grant.
The exhibition opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art August 13, 2010 and runs through January 9, 2011. An opening reception from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. will be hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico.
Sonsini in Utah
John Sonsini, Pedro Climico, 2009, oil on canvas 72 x 48 inches.
John Sonsini’s Portraits from Los Angeles is currently on view at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. The show will run through May 29, 2010.
