The Curated Creative
7401 Menaul Blvd NE
Suite H
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Hours:
Mondays: 12:00-5:00
Fridays: 12:00-5:00
Saturdays: 12:00-5:00
Open by Appointment
Contact for Appointment and for Sales: Brianne 505.850.2307
Brianne@curated-creative.studio
WWW.CURATED-CREATIVE.STUDIO
Opening Reception:
March 1, 5:007:00pm
Artist Talk:
March 9, 10:30am12:00pm
Closing Reception:
March 28, 6:008:00pm
TANGLE
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
32.25” x 42.25”
$2600
SUNSET BACKDROP
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
23.25” x 23.25”
$1100
All artworks on exhibit are available for purchase through The Curated Creative.
To start collecting, work may be purchased in person, by phone and online.
Acceptable forms of payment include cash, check and credit card.
Leasing and Layaway:
Leasing artwork is available to any business for residential and commercial use. Please inquire.
Layaway payment plans are available for all artwork. If under $1500 payments can be divided into 4 equal payments. For artwork over $1500, a 25% deposit is required on artwork with payments plans for 4-6 months.
Online Financing, Finance your art purchase through our online website with Delivery of artwork will be arranged with the gallery.
Shipping artwork both local and international is always available.
Contact: Brianne 505.850.2307
Brianne@curated-creative.studio
SOUTHWEST ENSEMBLE (WITH GHOST SHADOWS)
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
32.25” x 42.25”
$2600
RED-ORANGE
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
32.25” x 42.25”
$2600
I believe in painting what I know, but I don’t necessarily paint what I see.
During my daily walk, I observe plants. In the spring and summer every day is a miracle. As I am no miracle worker, I make no attempt depict what I see, instead through the act of painting and by reductive means, I try to understand the patterns and structure of plants.
Outside my door dry stalks give way to buds and then blooms. Plants in full-flower one day, become withered the next. In the median, a couple of blocks away, is a positively animate Prickly Pear; certain of its Stem-Cladodes seem engaged in quiet conversation, while others lounge about in shadow. For a quartermile along the Duranes Ditch are stands upon stands of Mexican Sunflowers, each a complex pattern of deep shadow, tangles of leaves and reaching stalks, capped with pert yellow flowers. Trumpet Vines snake on and over plaster walls, matted layers of foliage, light to deep green, like the surface of the sea, envelope these walls. Clusters of flowers, a most vivid red-orange, float like offerings along the surface.
This summer I also visited family and friends in Vermont. Because water is plentiful there, the gardens are lush. While there, I observed giant stands of waist-deep Echinacea, with flowers as big as a fist. Along paved walks were creeper plants, thick as a carpet, that were studded with small delicate flowers of white, pink and yellow.
Alongside and amidst flora, when the sun’s angle is right, shadows fluidly creep across plastered walls, occasionally repelled in places by pinpricks of light, like oil and water. These shadows are deep indigo, violet and lavender. Some closely mimic solid objects and are easily recognizable, some are doppelgangers, while others belong in world of their own.
My practice is to paint on re-purposed canvases and panels that once featured former images. I don’t sand down these surfaces before I start anew, rather I leave what came before to show through and to live on. Thus, daubs and licks of paint become the ground for new images. I especially like the way the ghosts of former images (in some cases four or five of them) provide glint and contrast in gold spray painted areas in the new work. Texture for me is a topography of the past. I house many of my paintings in Artist frames of my own making. Images are thus extended onto the frame, both front and sides, and using just a bit of imagination, out to infinity.
My medium is my own history as an artist, my support is place…that and a bit of ordinary magic. From the studio of David Disko
Nature as it never was or never will be.
MEDIAN
Oil and spray paint on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame 32.25” x 42.25”
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
19.25” x 23.25”
$875
BEFORE BLOSSOMS
Oil on canvas in an Artist frame
14.25” x 14.25”
$400
JULY TOO
Oil on canvas in an Artist frame
14.25” x 14.25”
$400
AUGUST’S ROSES
Oil and spray paint on canvas in an Artist frame
14.25” x 14.25”
$400
RIPE FRUIT
Oil and spray paint on canvas in an Artist frame
14.25” x 14.25”
$400
YELLOW
Oil on canvas in an Artist frame
14.25” x 14.25”
$400
DAWN and ROSES
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
13.5” x 13.5”
$400
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
42.25” X 32.25”
$2600
RED, GREEN AND GOLD
Oil and spray paint on re-purposed canvas
in an Artist frame
33.25” x 33.25”
$2100
MEDLEY
Oil and spray paint on re-purposed canvas
in an Artist frame
42.25” x 32.25”
$2600
AMORPHOUS
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
19.25” x 23.25”
$875
JULY
$1100
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame 23.25” x 23.25”
TANGLE TWO
Oil on re-purposed canvas in an Artist frame
23.25” x 23.25”
As a kid I was a rolling stone; eight schools in as many states, my family was always on the move. I could never put down roots; I never knew I wanted to. As an adult I found I could choose to stay or go; I chose first to make the western U.S., and then Albuquerque my home. My art is a reflection of this choice, and the things I see and know well that are all around me. After graduating high school in 1977 I worked as a wild-land firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management in north-eastern Utah. In the early 80’s, after earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah in 1980 with a dual degree in art and architecture, my artistic pursuits led me to take part in group shows at the Salt Lake Art Center and the Ogden Union Station Gallery and put on one-person shows at the University of Utah and Springville Art Museums. Postgraduation, in order to make my way, I worked as a foundry-man and metal fabricator at Wasatch Bronzeworks in Lehi, Utah, where as a team, we realized large scale metal sculpture and signage which were shipped all over the world. Later, employing my architectural training, I designed and managed the construction of corporate, retail and hospitality interiors in Salt Lake City.
Coming to Albuquerque in the late 80’s, my focus shifted to, first design-build and then exclusively to building construction as a general contractor. My company, Innerspace, during its 25 year run, completed projects such as the KiMo Theater renovation in Albuquerque (winning a National Preservation Award and the Associated General Contractors-Best Building Award), the construction of the African-American Cultural Center (winning a National Association of Industry and Office Parks-Best Public Project Award) as well as schools, day-care centers and other structures throughout New Mexico.
In 2009 a professional change allowed me to devote a good deal of my time and efforts to art making. Since then, I’ve exhibited at the Albuquerque International Sunport, the Harwood Art Center and Casa Cultura in Albuquerque. I’ve participated in group shows in New Mexico, California, Colorado, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas and have exhibited my work at art fairs in Santa Fe, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Dallas. As a result I have sold and shipped work to individual buyers in numerous cities and states in the U.S. and to the United Kingdom and Germany. My work is also included in the collection of the City of Albuquerque. Straddling my careers as a builder and as an art maker, I coached youth soccer for the Rio Rapids Soccer Club and New Mexico Youth Soccer Association where I was the Young Olympians Director for several years. Additionally, I was the Head-Varsity coach of the boys’ and girls’ programs at Cibola High School and the girls’ programs at Sandia High School and Sandia Preparatory School, all in Albuquerque. Presently, my wife and I reside in Albuquerque’s Near North Valley.
The Curated Creative is a project gallery, dedicated to showing established and emerging artists from New Mexico. The gallery space is located with the Robert M. Ellis Art Collection Trust. The Robert M. Ellis Art Collection Trust is dedicated to furthering Robert M. Ellis’s artistic legacy by disbursing his work for exhibition, loan, and sale that will expand the public’s awareness, appreciation, and understanding of his art and life. To view works by Robert M. Ellis, please visit our website: www.curatedcreative.studio or contact Brianne 505.850.2307 for an appointment.