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s the exclusive gallery in Santa Fe New Mexico, The Longworth Gallery will be hosting The World’s leading Magical Realist, Michael Parkes’ One Man Show and Reception Friday, 9th October from 5pm - 8pm. The special showcase will feature rare stone lithographs, fine art reproductions on canvas, paper and vellum. Also featured will be a number of Lost Wax Cast Bronze sculptures. Beauty in Bronze and The Renaissance Collection Michael Parkes’ art is rooted in philosophy and spirituality. Through his paintings, lithographs, drawings and sculptures, Michael casts reality in a metaphysical and spiritual light to access a dream world he calls “Magical Realism”. Michael’s ability to draw a firm line around his ideas is one of his greatest gifts – and absolutely essential for the demanding discipline of stone lithography. Michael began in the early 1980s making handpulled original stone lithographs, drawing them in the traditional manner directly onto the lime stone. A process first invented around 1798. An artistic process mastered by Michael and producing over a 30 year period more than 100 images. The medium is not tolerant of mistakes. Michael needs to know exactly what he wants to do and exactly how to do it. Michael’s stone lithographs can use as many as 14 colours and traditionally that would mean 14 different stones, but over the years Michael created a technique where he used two or three stones to produce the same results. The LEFT Goddess of the Hunt. Lost wax bronze; Artwork © 2015 Michael Parkes
image for each new colour is drawn on the stone and in doing so, the previous colour-image is completely erased and irretrievable. You cannot backtrack for correcting or adding to a previous colour already printed. It makes the process much faster but the safety net is gone. To many artists this is terrifying and they refer to it as “the suicide run”. To Michael, it is a stimulating challenge that he loves to meet — one of the reasons for his 30 year love affair with stone lithography. Michael Parkes is a rare living master of this art form. When Michael ceased working with lithography, Michael’s publisher encouraged him to commemorate his Angels from his lithographs and paintings by bringing them to life three dimensionally. So using the finest foundry in the United States, Artworks in Berkley California, Michael has now created a large number of bronze sculptures giving life to his work in three dimensions. In today’s art world, the collector has developed a renewed sense of appreciation for the fine quality of the lost wax method when it comes to bronze sculpture. In recognizing the versatility and durability of three dimensional art, it can be placed almost anywhere: indoors or outside; the centre piece for a fine evening of entertaining. When the walls are full, sculpture enables you to continue your collection of timeless beauty. TOP LEFT Ex Libris last wax bronze in custom patina. 15”t x 4.5”w x 7”dTOP RIGHT Owner Lisa Rodgers standing in front of Morning Light - a small limited edition fine art reproduction on canvas 27.5” x 55”, and holding the bronze of Morning Light as well BOTTOM LEFT Persepolis is a hand pulled stone lithograph 27.5” x 35.5”; All Artwork © 2015 Michael Parkes
Contact The Longworth Gallery to receive your personal invitation to attend this rare opportunity to meet Michael Parkes.
As a personal collector of, and representing her many artists for a decade on Canyon Road, Lisa Rodgers, the galley’s owner and director reveals, “They are all about light: physical, metaphorical, psychological and spiritual”. Internationally celebrated Russian painter Vladimir Kush, Winner of Artiste du Monde at Cannes 2011 has developed a style distinguished as Metaphorical Realism, where allegorical worlds exuding illumination and optimism merge. Gaze into his paintings, and feel the light of his message through his storytelling. New Mexican artist Monte Zufelt reminds us of the harmony that can felt at the celestial heights. His towering bronze angels send their messages of wisdom and love in the serenity of silence. Iranian artist Rahileh Rokhsari, inspired by the poetry of 13th century Persian spiritualist Rumi, found an unexpected parallel between the centrifugal aeration of red wine and the dance of the whirling dervishes. In motion, both dissolve into energetic light and colour in her rich and dynamic oil paintings. Award winning Australian artist Sandi Lear shows us the soulful and ethereal qualities of her subjects. Vivid, yet slipping into the dream world, Sandi creates light and movement with her water colours as she invites us to complete the story.
About The Longworth Gallery The Longworth Gallery is the only gallery in Santa Fe to exclusively represent artists who pair the mystical and metaphorical with the elements of reality. Apart from a shared sense of magic in the ordinary and the extraordinary in the everyday, there is something else — something subtler — a secret that all of the artists share.
Acclaimed New Mexican and Native American artist Andrew Rodriguez uses his internationally acclaimed use of basrelief sculpture to capture the spiritual emergence from the essence of human emotion and the restlessness of our journey in the here and now. The Longworth Gallery 530 & 532 Canyon Rd. 505.989.4210 TheLongworthGallery.com TheLongworthGallery@gmail.com TOP LEFT Sandi Lear, Pride 18 x 24 TOP RIGHT Andrew Rodriguez, Night Shield 29x21.5 BOTTOM LEFT Rahileh Rokhsari, Colour of Love 24 x 31.5; All artwork on this page copyrighted 2015