Monday, January 31, 2011
Cil Abeyta, "Butterfly Beauty" - El Paso, TX
Cil Abeyta a Native El Pasoan..has loved drawing and painting since very young ...works in pastel,acrylic and watercolor. Started in charcoal ....belongs to the EPPAA and the Rio Bravo Watercolorists. Entered her first show... EPAA Western Reflections and won an award.
Corinne Abeyta-Spinnler, "Mother Mary" - El Paso, TX
Born in El Pas, Texas, Corinne is a multi-media artist working in oils, water colors, pastels, and acrylics. Her style is bold and vibrant with a passion for color which creates luminous and expressive florals and landscapes which are her favorite to paint. Corinne has studied at the University of Texas El Paso, and the El Paso Community College and over twenty-five art workshops throughout the United States. Corinne has won numerous competitive awards for her artist endeavors. During 2006 four of her works traveled to the Department of the interior Museum in Washington, D.C. as part of a larger Plein Air Exhibit. Her works hang in private and corporate collections both at home and abroad.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Linda Hains, "Heart Mirror" - El Paso, TX
I began painting as a child - coloring everything in sight. I went through coloring books,crayons ans water colors as fast as could be. As i grew older the world came more into my awareness. I continued to create as much as i could all the time - just whatever came into mind. Creativity, for me, is the world in motion. I always work from imagination. I have worked in choreography (dance), drawing, painting and sculpture. I am very interested in movement, color, placement and form. The image are kinetic, something visual in the mind, a motion that falls into time. My Sculptures and Dances needed drawings, both are three dimensional forms on a flat surface - one an illustration, one a diagram. The diagrams became ritualistic. I was drawn to the act of creating art - letting to hand flow forward. Drawing became the fastest way to capture the ideas. I combined the ideas involved in the making of Sand paintings and Yantra's and the paintings of Jackson Pollack and CY Twombly. At one point the marks i was required a form or shape to surround them. I proceeded to place myself on the paper and used the tracing of my body as a basis for the drawing. This very act seemed to meld all the different facets of creating into one. Drawing, Movement and Sculpture consolidated itself into the form of Painting. working mostly on the floor, I use the square format as a dance space. I place my body in the square and feel the movement wander. I am very interested in improvisation, the surprise of letting the motion go through my body mind and out onto the canvas. Everything is spur of the moment, related to energy, time, season, spirit and the Joy of making marks. Being physically involved with the work is very important. Dance is a good form of communication because it is instant. You are taken through it visually and abstractly. Latter it because it becomes a memory, like a dream. I enjoy the feeling of movement on the body, the feeling of being alive and having strong sensations. I imagine myself as a slight ball of energy dancing on the earth. I work at portraying this - not just the image but the sensation. Floating feelings, Heavy feelings, Falling feelings, Light feelings and Swirling feelings - My work stems from these sensations mingling with each other. The painting are named as actions; shift Lost, Stop Shock. They describe movement, actions, emotion and sensations both mentally and visually.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Rene Nevarez,- El Paso, TX
The familiar heart-shape is so ubiquitous that it is a real challenge to create a piece that does not fall flat or comes off as trite. Yet that is precisely the challenge presented by AVANCE. This piece uses the wooden heart provided in a slightly more conceptual way without ditching the heart all together. The wooden heart was used to form the wire around, creating a negative space that depicts the heart on and serves well for forming. This piece is a second edition of a heart that was in a competition about ten years ago. It is made of concrete, sterling silver wire with patina, garnets and zirconia. The heart rises from a crack in the concrete much the same way grass grows resiliently from a crack in the sidewalk. The sharp prongs were handmade and protects its fruits or seeds. The sterling silver has real value and not simply perceived value. The piece reflects the resiliency of the people that go through AVANCE's doors. This is the heart on which the metal was formed. It was charred with a torch -a tribute to the soldering necessary assemble the various parts of silver.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Kelly Foss, "You're the One that I Want" - El Paso, TX
Born on 1985 on the coast of Georgia, Kelly grew up in New Mexico and Vermont, and now calls El Paso home. Due to her father's work with the goverment, the family had great opportunities to move around, exposing her to different cultures, communities and characters. As a self-taught specializing in portraiture, she has had a one-woman art show at the Lincoln Center, and has shown yearly with the Mexican Consulate's "Mujeres Sin Fronteras" exhibit. Kelly shows continually at the at the Hal Marcus Gallery (where she has worked since 2005). Her painting of Pancho Villa (from her Mex. Revolution Series) appears on the cover of a Mexican History Book. Numerous private collections contain Kelly Foss' art; over 9 US States and also in Japan.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Karla Zanelli, "Young at Heart" - El Paso, TX
Karla Zanelli has been creating Geometric/Abstract/COOL designs from early childhood. Elements throughout her work are linear and circular motifs, with various modern forms also playing a part. Her pieces are clean, structure yet fun, with a lively color palette. With a graphic design background, she creates each pieces with a clear vision and takes great care in their strict execution. She invites the viewer to see her paintings as something different, something beautiful, something to remember.
Victoria R. Groening, "Happiness" - El Paso, TX
Victoria Groening is an artist, graphic designer, and educator. Art has always been her passion. There was never a doubt that she wanted to pursue an artistic career. She earned her BFA at the University of Texas at Arlington with a concentration in graphic design. She moved back to El Paso from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area five years ago. Victoria resides in Anthony, New Mexico but still maintains her El Pasoan status because El Paso is and always will be her home. While still freelancing as a graphic designer, she recently began a different adventure in teaching. Victoria is currently the art teacher at Delta Academy for the El Paso independent School District. Working in a variety of mediums from the last year she has begun to donate and show her fine art work publicly.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Sherry Doil-Carter - Las Cruces, NM
Sherry Doil-Carter is a storyteller—telling stories of the human experience, her experience and those that are universal. She tries to add another layer to timeless questions—the questions we all ask for which there is no answer. Her works are narratives for the spiritual experience that translate to metaphors for the human experience.
She interprets the color as a connection between herself and the Divine. She uses any media to express the spiritual emotions she feels. Placing rusty metal next to gold leaf implies the ideas of the man-God connection, the ephemeral versus the ethereal.
Peggi Kroll-Roberts, "Let Kids Be Kids" - Angels Camp, CA
Award winning artist, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, was trained at Arizona State University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Peggi worked as a fashion and advertising illustrator before making the transition into fine art. Using intense color and value to accentuate her subject, she moved into fine art with a bold palette, a love for small paintings and a very loose style that achieves a lot with a few very energetic brush strokes. She prefers to suggest reality than render it. Inspired by her children she paints beach scenes and other aspects of their lives. She also breaks away from the conventional still life by painting scenes of cosmetics and the occasional coffee cup or slab of butter. Peggi's work gives us a new appreciation of our own daily life.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Vanessa Munoz, "Embrace" - El Paso, TX
Vanessa Munoz is a native El Pasoan. She received her degree from UTEP; she has a Bachelor's of Fine Art in graphic design with a minor in drawing. She spent a year working for a private art education company in Pasadena, California. Mrs. Munoz is currently a certified art teacher and is teaching art at Horendo Middle School, in EPISD.
Sarai Chavez, "Untitled" - El Paso, TX
Sarai Chavez received her BA in Art with a specialization in painting and a minor in French from the University of Texas at El Paso. She was accepted to La Sorbonne and spent a semester studying painting and french literature in Paris, France. She is currently teaching sixth, seventh, and eighth grade art at Hornedo Middle School and working on her Masters in Art Education.
Lily Limon, "La Virgencita" - El Paso, TX
We are thrilled to have Lily Limon, AVANCE Board Member, participating in this year's heart auction. Her piece, "La Virgencita" is a mixed media piece worth coming out to see.
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