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“Phoenix Wing” by Elodie Holmes - From the New Mexico Glass Alliance Website
Glass is an ancient and stunning medium of visual art. Used by artisans since 250 B.C. to express cultural beliefs, ideas or imagination; it is beautiful, delicate and unforgiving. The roots of art glass can be traced to Murano, Italy, but examples can be seen worldwide.
50 Years of American Art Glass
The history of American Art Glass and the Studio Glass Movement is a much more recent phenomenon. The contemporary glass blowing movement started in 1962 at the Toledo Museum of Art, where ceramics professor Harvey Littleton and chemist Dominick Labino experimented with melting glass in a small furnace. It was these early experiments which allowed the art of glass blowing to flourish, giving artisans the ability to work in private studios.
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the American Art Glass Movement. From the humble beginnings the practice of creating stunning works of glass art spread through teaching and college curricula. University programs were available to students as early as 1964 and spread quickly throughout the United States and abroad.
In New Mexico small studios opened as early as 1968. Always a source of art and inspiration, one of the first New Mexico studios opened on Canyon Road. Not only did the local studios produce glass, they also became places where glass artists could gather and learn from each other.
Mill Fine Art and the New Mexico Contemporary Glass Invitational
Mill Fine Art is proud to host this special summer event. We have teamed up with the New Mexico Glass Alliance to bring you the 2012 New Mexico Contemporary Glass Invitational. Held August 3rd through September 24th 2012, this show will allow you to view the best in New Mexico Art Glass.
This show will display the works of fourteen selected artists and will range from pedestal pieces to wall mount and outdoor installations. The exhibit opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. The featured speaker for the evening will be Marvin Lipofsky, one of the pioneers of the Art Glass Movement in the United States.
Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Lipofsky has long been an influential figure in the Studio Glass Movement. He was one of only a handful of students to study under Harvey Littleton in 1962 and 1963, and he soon moved to teaching the form. He tenured as a design instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, and he taught there until 1972. Since that time he has instructed workshops and lead seminars around the world
Mr. Lipofsky is also the founder of the glass program at the California College of Arts and Crafts as well as the Glass Arts Society. He is also the recipient of multiple awards including two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass and a Masters of the Medium Award from the James Renwick Alliance.
We look forward to listening to Mr. Lipofsky speak, and are honored to be welcoming such a notable guest here at Mill Fine Art. Marvin will deliver brief remarks at the gallery Friday evening, and you are cordially invited to attend.
For more information about the New Mexico Contemporary Glass Invitational please visit http://glassnm.org/new-mexico-contemporary-glass-invitational-aug-3rd-2012/.
The exhibit of new work by California based contemporary artist John Y Chang will open at Mill Fine Art the evening of October 19th. That same evening the gallery will unveil a powerful small exhibit curated by Mr Chang. Two of the four artists in the exhibit he’ll curate are Wen-Hao Tien and Long Bin Chen. Both are known for transforming their meaningful materials into astonishing works of art. “Wind, clouds and water intermingle to create one-of-a-kind patterns in the sky,” said Wen-Hao Tien. “So my materials encounter one another on my paper.”
Wen-hao Tien
Wen-Hao Tien was born and spent her formative years in Taiwan, Republic of China, where she graduated from Tung-Hai University. Tien’s deep understanding of Chinese culture and identity informs her unique modern images. After moving to the United States at age 23, she studied in New York at Columbia University, The Art Students League, and The Greenwich House, as well as in Boston at Harvard University and in an apprenticeship with Professor Bai Qianshen. In 2004 she was awarded a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to enhance her studies in Chinese calligraphy. She views this as the soul of her work.
Using traditional Chinese materials—ink and paper—and innovative brush and print techniques, Tien combines Chinese calligraphy and painting with Western abstract and expressionist styles in what she refers to as “controlled experiments.” The result is striking: masterfully elegant characters, stormy ink landscapes, and the haunting contrast of black ink on white paper.
Long-bin Chen
The second artist featured in this exhibit, Long-Bin Chen, is also known for his skill in transforming his chosen materials into extraordinary works of art. Rather than working with ink and paper, however, he uses out-of-date books, newspapers, magazines, and computer paper. When viewed from a distance, his paper art takes on the appearance of wood or marble.
Chen, who received a BFA from Tung-Hai University in Taiwan and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York, approaches the book as an aesthetic object in his work, creating a union of ideas and concepts from the East and the West. His work is not only a commentary on human consumption and waste but also a way of mourning the pre-digital era of bound books. He is represented by Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York, where he had his most recent solo exhibition in 2008.
This Mother’s Day Weekend promises to be an exciting one all along Canyon Road. In addition to the forecast of pleasant weather we forecast fun as the summer art season kicks off. Mingle with art lovers, history buffs, local musicians, community members and merchants of Canyon Road as they open the summer events schedule.
Join us here at Mill Fine Art on Saturday May 12th as part of a full day of music, art and celebration during Passport to the Arts. Then make sure to come back in Sunday the 13th for the Historic Homes Tour of downtown Santa Fe.
Passport to the Arts
Passport to the Arts is the first major Canyon Road event this year. Benefiting the Santa Fe Public Schools Music Education Department, this event features such exciting events as silent auctions lining The Road, a Quick Draw creation event and auction along with live music from students and local artists.
Grab your ‘passport’ or schedule of the events Saturday morning so that you don’t miss any of the fun as you wander Canyon Road. Don’t forget to come in and place your bids in the silent auction, and make sure to come back so you are not outbid on that must-have piece.
Historic Homes Tour
On Sunday May 13th, come back downtown and explore Canyon Road and downtown Santa Fe on the Historic Homes Tour. Between 1-4 pm you can follow the trail of the 1912 King’s Map, and imagine how much the area has changed in the past hundred years.
The Historic Homes Tour benefits architectural conservation efforts of the Historic Santa Fe Foundation. So whether you just want to take a stroll in the lovely weather or want to experience the rich history of the route you will be supporting a great cause. For more information, including where to purchase tickets, please visit the Historic Santa Fe Foundation website, www.historicsantafe.org, or call 505-983-2567.
We look forward to seeing you and your Mom this Mother’s Day weekend!
Protistan - Charles Greeley
Santa Fe painter and mixed-media artist Charles Greeley will open the show season at the gallery on Friday, May 25 with a one-man show of his paintings and Japanese paper collages.
The show will focus around Charles’s bold acrylic paintings. Finely wrought and intricately imagined, the work explores the landscapes of the imagination.
“The paintings in the show are of a spontaneous cosmogony resulting from brushstrokes and doodling with acrylic paint on canvas,” Charles says. “Multi-layers of dots, crosshatching, and wash effects create a harmonious whole that vaguely resembles a visionary landscape.”
Cordova - Charles Greeley
The paintings in the show will be complemented by his collages, which rework and reimagine the landscapes of the Southwest through the medium of Japanese paper. Elaborately detailed, each piece consists of hundreds of precisely placed pieces of paper. The result is a layered fusion of shape and color that captures the essence of the original scene while revealing a quality that was previously unseen.
“I began doing very detailed work in the late ‘60s in all kinds of media using lots of patterning,” Charles says. “The heavily silk screened Japanese patterned mulberry papers allowed me to do this type of detailed work in much less time than painting them”
In both the collage work and the paintings, he draws inspiration from the visionary, surreal and romantic painters of the past, including Redon, Moreau, and Bresden. But his ultimate inspiration comes from nature itself. The Glorieta Pass of Northern New Mexico, where he has lived with his wife and fellow artist, Bunny Tobias, since the ‘70s, provides a bounty of scenes from which to draw.
“I believe that nature is the realm of the miraculous and that art is one of the avenues used to experience this,” he says. “Living in New Mexico for 40 years has added to my consciousness a greater awareness of light and its many nuances.”
We invite you to join us for the show’s artist’s reception at the gallery on Friday, May 25 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Mist Over the Flatirons - Gordon Mansell
Mill Fine Art Presents the Collected Works of Gordon Mansell
With the sweep of his brush and a palette of color, Gordon Mansell evokes a landscape in its most fundamental form. His work captures not just the look of the land but its very essence. The warmth of sunlight is brilliantly conveyed with a dapple of yellow, the feel of a dewy morning in the English countryside articulated with a wisp of blue.
We are thrilled to present the fruits of a lifetime of artistic production by Gordon Mansell at the gallery. Pulling from 64 years of drawings, paintings, and watercolors, Culmination reveals Gordon’s artistic career in full, highlighting the depth and range and of his work.
Black Canyon - Gordon Mansell
The Evolution of the Artist
Gordon’s fondness for nature and the outdoors, formed early on in life while exploring the English countryside, has always informed his work. Every painting is an ode to the beauty of the natural world.
After studying art for several years, he left the university setting in the 1950s to instruct mountaineering at the National Climbing School in Wales. He later moved to the United States, where he held positions at several schools, including Denver University and the University of New Mexico.
Most well known for his large abstract canvases, Gordon also works in printmaking, drawing and watercolor, lending each medium his own distinctive style. He paints in the style of Bolton Coit Brown, George Bellows, Frank Mechau, and Rockwell Kent. It is with the touch of a true technical master that he presents the drama of his own world.
Many of Gordon’s watercolors and paintings were never intended for exhibition. Rather they served as opportunities for him to explore spontaneous scenes and ideas he came across in his travels.
“With a small box of watercolors, sketchbook, and prepared paper carried in a rucksack, it was possible to document the places of special interest to me,” he says. “These small paintings have been made in all kinds of conditions—broiling heat, icy rain, sometimes using the roof of a car as a work table or sitting on a comfortable boulder.”
Grand Teton Color Study - Gordon Mansell
The Culmination of a Career
Today Gordon’s work is in private, corporate, and public collections across the country, including the Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts and the Denver Art Museum.
His paintings will be on display at the gallery throughout the spring and summer seasons. We invite you to stop in and experience the full breadth of this master painter’s lifetime of work.
Chang DaLuz Art Exhibition
Gallery Opening: John Y Chang & Steven DaLuz
On display from September 30th through November 24th
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 30, 2011
5pm to 7pm
Mill Fine Art
530 Canyon Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.982.9212
Mill Fine Art will open two exhibits simultaneously. John Y Chang is a young artist well versed in the history and practice of both Western and Chinese art. The dramatic, visually striking, pieces being exhibited at Mill Fine Art blend cultural aesthetics, join East with West, and speak with a very confident and very unique voice.
Born and raised in Shanghai, China John earned a BA in Decorative Arts and Design from the Shanghai Light Industry College before coming to the US. He holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston and has exhibited widely in this country. This body of work concerns hope, the search for meaning in digital media, and employes the aesthetic, if not the technique, of traditional Chinese painting.
New work from Texas painter Steven DaLuz will be opening at the same time. Twice selected for the Florence Biennale, and recent “Artist Of The Month” for Artists Magazine, Steven is a “Neo-Luminist” working with metal leaf, chemically-induced patinas, and other media to “light” this recent work. Following a major exhibit in Budapest in June Steven has produced 11 new pieces for this show at Mill Fine Art. Steven produces work that critics have described as carrying “brilliant luminosity” or “sublime presence”. He will be present for the gallery reception.
Artists John Y Chang & Steven DaLuz
