Artist Happenings

Angela Beloian was interviewed by art critic James Scarborough for her current exhibit in Prisms at Walker Fine Art . Read the interview here.

Beloian presented for artCollect at Walker Fine Art on Tuesday, April 1st from 6:00-7:30. artCollect brings art and artma lovers together to engage closely with the Colorado art community.

Allison Svoboda is concluding her year long residency at Manierre Dawson Gallery at Michigan’s Westshore Community College with an installation of large scale flower panels highlighting the endangered flora of the Great Lakes Region.  These panels were inspired by the workshops Allison lead with students learning ink painting and orizomegami folding techniques.

The Center for the Arts Evergreen is creating an exhibition focused on the artists working out of Blue Silo Studios, curated by Chris Stevens, Director of Exhibitions. Bryan Leister will be showing several recent works.  The show runs from March 27th through April 26th. The gallery is located at 31880 Rocky Village Drive in Evergreen, Colorado.

Ren Cannon is teaching printmaking, drawing, and ceramics at the Art Students League of Denver. If you've ever wanted to try your hand at artmaking with a Walker artist, this is your chance! Ren is teaching a printmaking class called Tetrapak Intaglio on Tuesday evenings starting 8 April from 5:30-8:30, a surface design on clay class on Thursdays from 10-1 starting 17 April.  They would love to see you in class!

Zelda Zinn's Altered Arctic images are published in a 4-page spread in a Canadian on-line and in-print magazine entitled PhotoED (photography editorial). It's upcoming issue #73, Meld. Here's one of the images published.

Katie Kindle recently had art at Edge Gallery for their Experiments in Photography exhibition. This murmuration image is a hand-cut photo collage and is part of a larger body of work she is working on with East High School students and Guns to Gardens Denver, a community healing organization to transform unwanted surrendered guns (and their cyanotype images made from sunlight) into garden tools and art. The murmuration represents the community coming together in peace, unity, and collective action.

Jane Fulton Alt will be exhibiting new work inspired by a recent trip to Japan at the Karuizawa Foto Fest April 26 - May 25th in Karuizawa, Japan.

Gloria Pereyra's Memories has been designated a Gold Winner from the international competition, Muse Photography Awards.

Rob Mellor has a new series of work on view now at Ann Connelly Fine Art in Baton Rouge.

Mellor’s studio practice starts with unconfined creation, often an analog collage pinned and stuck together intuitively, layered or cut through, allowing for future movement, change and reorganization. Scraps and pieces from other sessions make their way onto the board, rehearsing for a part in the whole. When a collage reaches a point of resolution, it transitions into the digital realm, where infinitesimal refinements can occur swiftly. For Mellor, the collage points the way forward. It is a tactile object that is not at all a painting, but a template for reinterpretation, a never-imagined object containing meaning, offering connections, and a chance to see something for the first time. The final painting emerges as another iteration—more certain, refined, and rooted in its origins—yet ready to express its elements in full voice. It is a record of tensions both great and small, from figurative to abstract, harmonious to otherworldly. When viewed it can suggest, please, affirm, and bemuse.

Andrea Schwartz Gallery is showcasing the work of Elaine Coombs & Heather Patterson at the San Francisco Art Fair from April 17-20.  This year's fair will present 85 leading galleries from around the world alongside a dynamic series of public programming.

GET TO KNOW

Give me the basics.
I was born and raised in South Central Texas near Austin. My hometown was small, just 5,000 people, and though summer trips to Houston gave me a sense of city life, I had little exposure to fine art growing up. Moving to Santa Fe almost 20 years ago changed everything, and for the past decade, I’ve been based in Laguna Beach, California.

Tell me about your art journey.
My mother saved early drawings, including a Santa Claus and reindeer sketch from when I was five that would later became a Christmas card. I was always creating as a child, always choosing art electives in school and loved competing in local contests. My senior year, an inspiring art teacher encouraged me to enter exhibitions, leading to a Hallmark-sponsored prize at the University of Texas. The painting went on to a national competition in New York City and I think this is when I knew I was going to be an artist.

I pursued an associate degree in commercial art and advertising, landing my first job at an ad agency near Texas A&M. The big city called, and I moved to Dallas, working in gift wrap design, where I developed my deep appreciation for color. Later, I returned to advertising, working on all sorts of fun projects, notably, Milkbone was my favorite because I love dogs. A pivotal moment came when a colleague introduced me to the book, ”The Artist’s Way." A group of us committed to creative exploration, and during that time, I took a painting workshop in Santa Fe. Standing in an aspen grove, I realized: this was what I wanted to do forever. Two years later, I left advertising to paint full-time.

Over the years, my process evolved. Initially I only painted what I saw, so I was painting in a much more representational style - mostly trees in the landscape(s). When the stock market crashed in 2008, my large-scale paintings weren’t selling, so I experimented. Sanding down some of MY realistic tree paintings sparked an unexpected reaction, and that discovery led me to the work I do today. Since then, I’ve exhibited with Joseph Gierek Fine Art in Tulsa, Hahn Ross in Santa Fe, Chiaroscuro in Santa Fe, Andria Friesen in Sun Valley, Scape Gallery in California, Walker Fine Art in Denver and Gebert Contemporary in Scottsdale.

What inspires you?
Trees and water, but ultimately, color. Without color, my work wouldn’t have the same impact. My experience in gift wrap design taught me to build color in layers, a technique I use today—layering up to 10-12 times before sanding away to reveal what’s beneath.

What are you most proud of in your art career? 
I think it's probably the relationships for me. As artists, we spend so much time alone in the studio. While I did take pride in the corporate achievements and awards, what truly matters to me are the conversations and friendships—with fellow artists, gallerists, collectors, and those who engage with my work.

What are you looking forward to this year?
In 2018, Todd and I renovated our home, but we left the deck untouched—until now. After a year of work, it’s finally coming together, and I can’t wait to spend the summer out there, whether alone or with friends.

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