exposĂŠ
artist
Pine River Valley
Spring & Summer 2015 1
index
of artists
Kelly Black.................................................4 Darrell Ransford........................................5 Tom McBride.............................................6 Sandra Heller............................................7 Connie Mason-Bennett....................... 8-9 Cindy Coleman......................................10 Juanita Melendez..................................11 Connie Wolf............................................12 Terry Gasdia............................................13 McKenzie Rayburn........................... 14-15 Dimitry Domani.......................................16 Dee McAliney.........................................17 Rae Yan Yan Harris.................................18
Blane Barns.............................................19 Andrea Zelinski........................................20 Rob Richards...........................................21 Christy Hicks............................................22 Debra Baker............................................23 Connie Cyprian......................................24 Dan Verniero...........................................25 Nancy Young..........................................26 Amy Stuck...............................................27 Justin Bennett.........................................28 Karrie Sellke.............................................29 Katrina Jameson....................................30 Kasey Correia.........................................30
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Kelly Black Kelly Black is a local artist and a Durango native. Taking up painting in 2008, he decided it was time for a change. So, in 2010 he retired from a 45-year career in the automotive industry to pursue his art. Primarily self-taught, he paints landscapes, western, and wildlife in oils and acrylics.
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Tom McBride Knowing I cannot improve on God’s work, my photography centers on capturing the moment using only the camera settings, a certain lens, type of slide film and the speed of that film. The only filter I use is to protect the lens from damage. All my photographs have not been altered in any way after they were taken. I mainly photograph landscapes, Indian ruins, rock art and
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old mining structures. To me, photography is communicating to you a powerful image in its purest form. With the advent of canvas giclĂŠe printing, my photographs have truly come to life.
Sandra Heller “I find joy in capturing the moods of the landscape – the unique patterns of color and shape, the subtle quietness and the drama, the special quality of each season. My plein air paintings focus on a brief moment in the everchanging light of a favorite location. Often returning to paint at these same locations, I am inspired by the extraordinary diversity. I want my paintings to
express the ‘sense of awe’ I felt and to convey what attracted me to that particular place. My intention is for the viewer to see and feel the visual memory.”
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Connie Mason-Bennett Connie considers herself a Renaissance artist. She works with numerous mediums in both the fine arts and crafts. She first began working with clay as a child playing long the banks of the Gila River in Arizona, forming clay objects out of the clay deposits left by the flooding river. In 1999, Connie was once again reunited with clay and today creates functional, usable pieces that are oven proof, dishwasher proof and contain no lead, barium, or cadmium. Her
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ceramics can be found at Studio Sellke in Bayfield, Colorado and can sometimes be found at the Farmers’ Market held in the road-side park along Hwy 160 in Bayfield.
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Cindy Coleman Cindy Coleman is a freelance graphic designer/illustrator living in southwest Colorado. Originally from rural Missouri, she graduated from Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL, in 1999, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. After college Cindy worked at CNN Design in Atlanta, creating on-air graphics and redesigning the map look for the network. After 7 years, she and her husband Ken moved to Durango, where Cindy began painting, designing, and illustrating through her company Duck Girl Art. Cindy has illustrated for local magazines and has 3 children’s books. She paints
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animals in acrylics on varnished scrapbook paper, incorporating found items as collage elements into her work, and also works in watercolors. She has been a featured artist at the Durango Arts Center; Wildethyme Gallery in Monte Vista, CO; Mainsite Contemporary in Norman, OK; The William & Joseph Gallery in Santa Fe, NM; and is currently exhibiting at Studio Sellke in Bayfield.
Juanita Melendez Juanita Melendez lives in Bayfield, Colorado with her husband Mike, three dogs and a cat. They both love the outdoors and the wildlife in this area. Many of her pieces are inspired by nature and the wildlife that surrounds us daily. She has been working with beads and embroidery since she was a young girl and continues to this day. Her latest love is bead embroidery, combining healing
stones with other forms of media like polymer clay cabochon, porcelain, and bone carved animals, flowers, fairies, and goddesses. Juanita also works with micro-macramĂŠ and wire, combining all to make one of a-kind powerful healing jewelry for the wearer.
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Connie Wolf Connie is a native of Minnesota and moved to this lovely area after retiring from a 20-year firefighting career. Her love of beading began about 15 years ago after an on-duty injury. Connie enjoys working with colorful seed beads of many sizes and styles, and real stones. She belives they can take on unique styles by stringing them in asymmetrical or symmetrical patterns or designs. She creates
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specifically-designed pieces for weddings and other special occasions. Her work can be found at Studio Sellke in Bayfield.
Terry Gasdia Terry was raised on both the Akimel O’Odahm and Hopi reservations of northern and southern Arizona, and learned the importance of traditional culture from both sides of his family. While growing up with his grandparents, his grandfather and teacher, Logan Dallas, taught him the art of Hopi Katsina doll carving and how to paint in oils and acrylics. Logan is his main inspiration, and most of Gasdia’s art comes from memories shared while carving together. Terry was also taught traditional values by his people on the Akimel O’Odahm side of his family and now has begun to explore this direction in his art.
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McKenzie Rayburn McKenzie is a twenty-one-yearold artist from Southwest Colorado. She is earning a double major in Graphic Design and Business Administration at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. Here she has held a permanent spot on the Dean’s List since her freshman year in 2012. She won an excellence in 2-D foundation award and she has been invited to join honors society Phi Kappa Phi. McKenzie’s go-to skill set is drawing. She is talented with anything from a pencil to a marker.
Her core talent lies in realistic portrait drawing. She practices this on the side, as there are not many drawing courses in the graphic design program. Some of her other skills include: painting, carving, woodworking, vector graphics, and logo design. McKenzie hopes to graduate with her double major in 2016 and find a career that will display her passion for art and support her little family.
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Dimitry Domani Established on the principle that artistry and hard work are inseparable in the making of bronze sculptures, Domani Studio serves as the personal studio of Dimitry Domani and also offers full foundry services to others. His sculptures reflect an intense appreciation for the grace, power, beauty and fragility of life. Dimitry’s sculptures possess meaning, aesthetic harmony and emotive potential, making them hard to resist. Authority and
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maturity reside in his work, with visually and intellectuallysatisfying terms, both realistic and abstract. His work can be found at Studio Sellke in Bayfield, Colorado.
Dee McAliney Dee has always loved paper. In addition to creating detailed cuttings with a scissors and an X-Acto knife, she spent almost thirty years installing wallpaper. She has a passion for making pretty things and making things pretty. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, she now resides in Mancos, a small town that is becoming known as one of the premier Colorado art communities. Working mainly with black silhouette paper, she has recently added the use of handmade
paper in a myriad of colors. A quote from Dee: “Almost anything that can be drawn can be cut, and as Albert Einstein said, ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’”
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Rae Yan Yan Harris Ms. Harris is an eighteen-year-old senior at Bayfield High School. She has taken five art classes – photography, intro to art, ceramics, advanced ceramics, and studio ceramics – and has competed at the Intermountain League (IML) Art Show for three years. She has won three honorable mentions and a third place ribbon in her sophomore year and a second place ribbon in her junior year at IML. She has been a dedicated and talented artist who has served as president and secretary for the National Art Honor Society - Bayfield Chapter for the past two years. She will graduate with honors cords in National Art Honor Society and National Honor Society. Yan Yan Harris in a close tie tor Valedictorian at Bayfield High School for 2015. Art has had a great influence upon her life since the moment she was adopted by her artist mother, Krista Harris. In the fall of 2015, Ms. Harris plans to attend Scripps College and will be applying for its 3-2 program, where she can earn a Bachelor of Art and a Bachelor of Science. She has expressed her hope in pursuing a STEM program while using art to help her be innovative and balance her analytical left brain with a creative right brain.
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Blane Barns Blane Barns is a senior at Bayfield High School. He has had a passion for drawing his whole life. He feels that drawing is the best way to give life to art and bring attention to his core beliefs of what is important in life. He has taken art courses every year of his high-school study where he was encouraged by his art teacher to brave the world of color and sculpture. He discovered his painting and sculpting art aptitude was also amazing. He has won four blue, three red, and five white ribbons at the Intermountain League Art Show. This is a tough competition between five other high schools and 600 pieces of art per year. Blane’s drawing of a fallen American soldier in the arms of a comrade will be honored in stone by The American Legion for the new Memorial at the Bayfield cemetery. Blane’s art was on display at the senior graduation as the Best Senior Artist for 2015. He plans to attend Fort Lewis College to earn his teaching certificate in All Levels Art. He will be an art teacher in Colorado as well as an athletic coach.
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Andrea Zelinski Andrea Zelinski is a senior at Bayfield High School. She is a very talented artist who has been creating art from a small child until now. It is a passion and a joy to create art in all mediums for her. She has taken art all four years of high school – which include Ceramics, Photography, Painting, Studio Art and Independent Study. Andrea received the highest honor an Intermountain League Art Show competitor can receive, the Best of Show for Advanced Students. She has also received many blue and red ribbons over the last four years. The Intermountain League Art Show is a competition between five participating high schools and approximately 600 pieces of art work that is juried by college professors and professional artists in that region. Andrea will be attending the University of
Colorado on a Soccer Scholarship and will be getting a degree in Physical and Occupational Therapy as well as a minor in Art.
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in advertising. Along the way, I have branched out to other forms of art ranging from illustrations to award-winning fine art pieces. I have recently begun displaying my landscape photography as well.
After college, I moved back to Arizona to start my career as a commercial artist and I still work
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Christy Hicks Christy not only has an incredible eye for photography but can craft something amazing out of mere scraps.
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Debra Baker Debra Baker has been a parttime member of the Vallecito Community since 1999 and full-time for two years. She and her husband volunteer with the San Juan Mountain Association, love backpacking, scuba diving, and living in these beautiful mountains. They are members of Mountainside Worship in Forest Lakes and lead mission teams twice a year to Guyana, South America where they minister to
orphans, the elderly, homeless and those recovering from drug and alcohol abuse. All of the proceeds from the sale of her jewelry go to support Heart for Guyana, an international, Christian non-profit organization, and can be found at Studio Sellke in Bayfield.
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Connie Cyprian Connie Cyprian works in several areas of art. Her passion is wire – creating pieces including, but not limited to, jewelry and wall art. Native to Colorado, she now lives in Cortez and uses the natural beauty of the area for her inspiration.
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Dan Verniero Dan has been hammering on iron since 1973 and was introduced to forging in a high-school shop class. He built his own forge and bought an anvil before he graduated, and has been a farrier (horseshoer) and a blacksmith ever since. He has studied with many smiths informally, taken drawing classes, and attended John C. Campbell Folk School, one of the few places that has a long tradition of teaching blacksmithing. Dan has been a member of the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America, the Blacksmith’s Guild of the Potomac, and the Grand Valley Blacksmith’s Guild.
the forge, which runs at about 2,500 degrees. The archaic methods used somewhat define his work. Instead of welding, he uses traditional joinery such as rivets, or mortise and tenons. Holes are punched through hot steel instead of being drilled. The handworking of hot steel visually enlivens the material, and the ability to radically change the dimension, texture, and direction of steel still fascinates me. Dan’s work can be seen at Studio Sellke in Bayfield, Colorado.
Every piece he makes is hammered out by hand during repeated cycles of heating in
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Nancy Young Nancy began her photography journey on the soccer field sidelines. The ways in which she views her world have expanded since then and she enjoys capturing the beauty and stories of the landscapes around her when she travels, and at home in southwest Colorado. Her favorite subjects are abandoned vehicles and structures whose historical mystery
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appeals to her imagination, but she’s also hard-pressed to pass up a striking landscape or sunrise photo op. Her photographs and photography-based artistic presentations reflect what she sees and what she’s looking at, which may be very different. Her work can be found at the Studio Sellke in Bayfield, Colorado.
Amy Stuck Amy has been creating glass art since 1999. She is fascinated with the possibilities that color combinations and contours offer and sees a potential piece in almost every visual scene. She is proud to say her studio is 100% powered by the sun. It runs on a 2040 watt grid tie photovoltaic system. Monthly electric usage is net zero or below.
Amy’s love of the outdoors also keeps her dabbling in “yard art” such as wind chimes, stepping stones, sculpture, birdfeeders and garden trellises. Her work can be found at the Studio Sellke in Bayfield, Colorado.
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Justin Bennett Justin was born in Durango and raised in the Pine River Valley. College and job opportunities then took him out of the area. All his moments in time reflecting everyday life are captured with
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his cell phone and have not been altered. Justin’s work is not for sale at this time.
Karrie Sellke Karrie is a self-taught artist with an earthy soul who is inspired to create in multi-mediums. Her biggest inspirations come from people, nature, and old, discarded, rusty, broken, and unused items. These various elements, when combined, become treasures with new spirits emanating new life and have energy capable
of touching even the deepest of one’s imagination. We all have our own light and when brought together through love, it creates heaven’s energy here on earth. Karrie’s work can be found at Studio Sellke in Bayfield, Colorado.
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Katrina Jameson Looking for a new creative outlet, Katrina attended the Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico class “Fused Glass is Hot!” with Olive Smith. She fell in love with glass as an art medium. She creates one-of-a-kind jewelry and art pieces with fusible art
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glass, recycled window glass and dichroic glass with unique inclusions, as well as silver and semiprecious stones. Katrina’s designs can be found at Studio Sellke in Bayfield, Colorado.
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