July 2019

Southwest Art

Southwest Art: The work of the West's most accomplished artists come to your home in the pages of Southwest Art. Dedicated to the coverage and preservation of this unique genre of American art, each issue profiles the artists of the Southwest and looks at

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The Wonder of Color
THERE ARE MANY ways an artist can make a painting come to life. Design and composition is one way, orchestrating shapes and angles to grab the viewer’s eye and move it around the piece. Capturing light and shadow is another way; the careful combinati
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Angela Bandurka
ANGELA BANDURKA’S family often jokes that, when Angela was a toddler, she’d try to sneak crayons into her diapers and draw on the wall behind her crib. Making art has always been “a compulsion,” says the Canada native. “It’s my go-to, my mental space
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Addren Doss
WHEN ADDREN DOSS signed up for a mechanical drawing class in high school, she boldly set a precedent. “This was in 1966, and they didn’t allow girls to take that class,” says Doss, for whom the school decided to make an exception—and fortunately so,
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Laurie Johnson Lepkowska
EVERY MORNING at 4 a.m., while most residents of the San Francisco Valley are still fast asleep, Northern California artist Laurie Johnson Lepkowska jump-starts her day at the easel, where she paints for several hours before heading to work as the vi
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Coeur d’Alene Art Auction
THE COEUR D’ALENE Art Auction’s superlatives speak for themselves. Now in its 34th year, it stands peerless as the nation’s largest auction house devoted to western and American art. It has set more than 160 world-record prices to date, including tho
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Matthew Hillier
SCENES OF CRASHING waves, seabirds, and sailing vessels may not be the first images that come to mind when considering what might be on view at a gallery in Jackson, WY, a town most commonly associated with Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks,
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Bill Gallen
AT FIRST GLANCE, THE title of Bill Gallen’s solo show at Sage Creek Gallery—Elements: Desert, Sky, Mountain, Cloud—seems a simple summary of the primary subject matter for this Santa Fe-based plein-air painter who also produces larger studio oils bas
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Boren, Fawcett & Norton
WHEN NELSON Boren asked Legacy Gallery owner Brad Richardson what sort of paintings he’d like for a show this summer, Richardson responded, “Old-fashioned Nelson Boren: dusty boots, worn leather, ripped-up spurs, tough cowboy stuff!” The acclaimed wa
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Sculpture In The Park
THIS AUGUST, for the 36th year in a row, the Loveland High Plains Arts Council presents Sculpture in the Park, a celebration of three-dimensional art at the beautiful Benson Sculpture Garden in Loveland, CO. Now the largest outdoor juried show and sa
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Elsa Sroka
IN A LITTLE less than a decade, Elsa Sroka’s fanciful bovine paintings have captured the hearts and imaginations of a throng of admirers across the country. Eschewing traditional portrayals of cows, Sroka places her subjects in all sorts of whimsical
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Alvin Gill-Tapia
GROWING UP in New Mexico, Alvin Gill-Tapia was surrounded by the ancient pueblos that inspire his paintings today. “I remember entering these beautiful old mud-brick buildings as a child and thinking it was as if they’d grown straight out of the eart
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Marshall Noice
MARSHALL Noice has long looked to the thriving ecosystem around his home in northwestern Montana’s alpine country for inspiration. Now the expressionistic landscape painter has bottled up the beauty and vitality of his forested homeland in a new body
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Alfredo Rodriguez
BORN IN MEXICO to a family of nine children, Alfredo Rodriguez grew up surrounded by stunning sierras and rich Mexican Indian cultures, inspiring him to paint these subjects from a very young age. And, like many young boys of that time, Rodriguez was
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Mark White
SANTA FE ARTIST and gallery owner Mark White has always created his works with an approach that embraces serendipity, uncertainty, and experimentation. “I love learning and am always exploring and pushing my artistic boundaries, searching for the pat
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DANCES with COLORS
WHEN SHE WAS 6 years old, Erin Hanson planted some iris bulbs with her mother in the garden of their home in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. “I already knew Van Gogh’s painting of irises,” she says, recalling her excited anticipation of the fl
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The Edge Of Realism
“I TRY TO PUSH the color to the edge,” says painter David Cheifetz, whose sumptuous, dramatic still lifes and figurative works construct vignettes that don’t simply reflect but rather amplify—and, at times, transcend—the real world. They elevate and
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THE Light UP AHEAD
IN HIS NEW Mexico studio not long ago, B.C. Nowlin pulled out a partly painted canvas he’d set aside a year or so earlier, when its momentum seemed to stall. In shades of umber, it was to be a field, with other imagery to follow. But like a dream tha
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Painting The World
SOME DATES IN people’s lives are unforgettable. For artist Jody Rigsby, April 15, 2016, is one of them. It’s the day she and her husband, Wayne, a graphic designer, crawled into their blue Ford F350 truck and hit the open road to see America. To prep
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The Still Life
What inspires you to paint still lifes? I paint still lifes because I get to create relationships between objects, which in turn compels viewers to slow down, visually enter the picture plane, and stay for awhile. How would you describe your style?
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Sculpture
“A SCULPTOR WIELDS THE CHISEL, AND THE STRICKEN MARBLE GROWS TO BEAUTY,” SAID THE 19TH-CENTURY POET AND JOURNALIST WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, summing up the transformative art of sculpting. Whether their process involves chiseling, molding, carving, or w
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Colorado ARTISTS
People flock to Colorful Colorado year-round to hike, bike, camp, ski, and fish. Many also come to view the abundant wildlife, to explore the lakes and rivers, or to relax in a mountain retreat. In addition to its natural beauty and mountain charm, h

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