The Gift of Art
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The Gift of Art
A curated selection of ten works perfect for the holiday season
LewAllenGalleries Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com
cover: Henry Jackson, New Warrior #4 (detail), 2015, oil & cold wax on canvas over panel, 18 x 18 in, $5000 3
SAMMY PETERS creates highly textured canvases that feature a sophisticated interplay of
painting and collage. Uninterested in clean, uniform surfaces, Peters arranges fields of expressive brushwork, paper and fabric in subtle allusions to patterning and iconography. With a background in signage and set design, Peters has a vast understanding of diverse methods of image-making, resulting in layered fields of assorted texture and color. Peters’ fascinating engagement with materials and surface references the full effects of collage – its intricacies as well as its depth of association.
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left: Sammy Peters, Concentric: covert; tension, 2013, oil and mixed media on board, 30 x 40 in $7500 above: Sammy Peters, Celebration: confining; enigma, 2013, oil and mixed media on board, 30 x 48 in $8000
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above: John Kiley, Emerald & Steel Overlap, 2012, blown, carved & polished glass, 10 x 8.5 x 10 in $7000 right: John Kiley, Strait, 2011, blown, carved & polished glass, 12 x 12 x 12 in $9000
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JOHN KILEY has earned many of glass art’s most esteemed distinctions
since his career’s inception, and has been recognized for the exceptional formal refinement of his blown, carved, and polished glass sculptures. Trained at the Pilchuck Glass School and the Penland School of Crafts, Kiley worked for Dale Chihuly’s studio at the age of 20 before winning an apprenticeship with both Dante Marioni and Benjamin Moore. In his art, Kiley updates and extends the lineage of these foremost innovators. His pieces examine the relationship between interior and exterior forms, often diluting the boundary between the two to inhabit the cusp of liminal space. His sharp eye for both color and transparency allows him to create surfaces that blur gradients between hues. 5
JIVAN LEE’s extraordinary New Mexican vistas are visual celebrations of the land and
its ineffable mysteries. Primarily painted en-plein-air, Lee’s expeditions into the Land of Enchantment are testaments to his physical engagements with the land, and also function as visceral explorations into the sensory nature of paint itself. Up close they celebrate paint for paint’s sake – luscious, colorful, moldable. In their opulent textures, his surfaces assume the felt sensation of earth, rock, water, and sky. When viewed at a distance, the paintings collect into studies of light – a dazzling transformation that highlights the relationships between familiar image and raw material.
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above: Jivan Lee, Sunrise Riverbend. 2016, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in $7000 left: Jivan Lee, Overlook #4, 2016, oil on panel, 24 x 18 in $3000
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above: Otto Duecker, Blue Heart, Love Note, 2016, oil on panel, 7.5 x 6.75 in, $3200 right: Otto Duecker, Red Heart, Love Note, 2016, oil on panel, 9.5 x 9.5 in, $3800
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As a painter of New Realism, OTTO DUECKER brings the art of mimesis to new levels of mastery. His oil on canvas paintings of love notes portray these images with uncanny skill. Duecker not only precisely portrays these handwritten notes as perceived by the camera but also captures the tonalities and surface texture of the handwritten notes themselves, picturing them pinned or taped to a wall, cracked, torn or slightly crumpled, and casting realistic shadows.
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above: Matthew Curtis, Striking Red Section, blown, tinted and fused glass with stainless frame, 15 x 16.15 x 8.25 in $7000 right: Matthew Curtis, Incline Neo and Red, blown, tinted and fused glass with stainless frame, 15 x 15.75 x 4.5 in $9000
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MATTHEW CURTIS, drawing upon an ongoing fascination with biology and architecture, creates geometric, organic forms from glass, colored oxide, and steel. His dynamic sculptures play with texture and transparency, evoking fragments of architectural space .
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SKIP STEINWORTH’s radiant drawings, without
embellishment of color and rendered with extraordinary finesse and minimal context, reach for the infinite. Steinworth states, “It’s a process of mentally deconstructing, analyzing and distilling the visual essence of a subject.” In his hands, a potted plant becomes far more than just a potted plant: effortlessly, he transcends subject matter by capturing its ultimate, almost spiritual essence, what Ingres called its “inner form.” While Steinworth’s drawings, according to Art Scene Magazine, are “gutsy in their rejection of bombast,” they retain a remarkable energy in their masterful composition and evocation of light, space, and form. Like the Dutch and French old masters before him, Steinworth pays careful, almost obsessive attention to arrangement, lighting, scale and subject matter, elevating the everyday to resplendent expression.
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above: Skip Steinworth, Single Flower in Bright Light, 2016, graphite on board, 19.75 x 11 in $10000 left: Skip Steinworth, Apple, 2016, graphite on board, 13.75 x 11 in $6500 13
above: Joe Ramiro Garcia, Nobody Cares, 2016 oil & alkyd on canvas over panel, 19 x 17 in $4200 right: Check List, 2016 oil & alkyd on canvas over panel, 42 x 42 in $9500
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JOE RAMIRO GARCIA combines disparate modes of iconography and nostalgia to examine the most unusual remnants of our shared cultural memory. Alternating between flat abstraction and a convincing trompe l’oeil, Garcia’s fragmented suggestions of space read like nimble imprints of the machinations of memory and perception. By referencing both popular culture and private experience, his psychologically resonant paintings and collages delight in disrupting hierarchies in order to access what is universal. 15
Happy Holidays from Everyone at LewAllen Galleries
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above: Henry Jackson, New Warrior, 2015, oil & cold wax on panel, 14 x 15 in, $5000
$5000 Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com Prices included are current retail prices and are subject to change at any time without notice. Availability of artwork shown is subject to prior sale. Š 2017 LewAllen Contemporary LLC Artwork Š LewAllen Galleries 18