Southwest Art August 2015 Digital Edition

Description

You’ll love the digital download of the August 2015 issue of Southwest Art if:

• You love the expanding definition of western art and the contemporary interpretations artists are exploring.
• You love high season in Santa Fe and want to explore the art auctions and openings the city has to offer.
• You love exploring the art of the landscape from the shifting perspectives of a dozen different artists.

In the August 2015 digital download of Southwest Art we explore the New West with artists Robert Spooner and Dinah Worman. Spooner, who lives and paints in Denver, captures scenes of the world around him–from downtown construction sites to West Coast seascapes–in layers of deconstructed imagery. Worman, who lives in northern New Mexico, focuses her artistic endeavors on the sparsely populated rural landscape, in flattened and stacked images of rolling hills peppered with white-face cattle. Discover these artists’ contemporary take on the West in this issue of Southwest Art!

Also in this issue, we’ll tour the Pasadena studio of painter Tim Solliday and preview 16 must-see art shows and auctions happening around the West in the month of August from the new Coeur d’Alene Heart of the West show to Trailside Galleries’ Western Convergence in Jackson, WY.

Features
Chasing Adventure
Robert Spooner sets a course and then lets serendipity lead the way. By Gussie Fauntleroy

Shifting Perspectives
Dinah K. Worman shares a very personal vision of the landscape. By Norman Kolpas

My World
A visit with Tim Solliday at his studio in Pasadena, CA. By Bonnie Gangelhoff

Power and Beauty
Robert Johnson embraces the aesthetic world. By Elizabeth L. Delaney

Less is More
Melanie Fain’s etchings reflect the simple pleasure of looking at nature. By Bonnie Gangelhoff

The Beauty of Nature
Meet 11 artists who focus on painting the landscape.

Show Previews
A Western Convergence
Trailside Galleries, Jackson, WY

Kim Wiggins
Manitou Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

Contemporary Wildlife
Astoria Fine Art, Jackson, WY

A Western View
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Heart of the West
Coeur d’Alene Resort, Coeur d’Alene, ID

Jared Sanders
Altamira Fine Art, Jackson, WY

Matteucci Contemporaries
Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

Craig Kosak
Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Plein Air Artists Colorado
Mary Williams Fine Arts, Boulder, CO

Auction in Santa Fe
Hilton Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Bruce King
Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Rocky Mountain Plein Air Show
The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, CO

Carla Forrest & Lee McVey
Purple Sage Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Far Horizons
Lacuna Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

Heather Arenas
Art Images & Art at the Loft, Denver, CO

Cathy Sheeter & Guy Coheleach
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ

Columns
From the Editor
A roundup of western art news

Artists to Watch
Robert Reynolds, Loren DiBenedetto, Justin Kunz

I Saw it in SWA!
Paintings and sculpture sold from our pages

Artists of Note
Ellen Fuller, Deborah Newman, Cheryl Koen