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Artist Spotlight focuses on interesting artists, upcoming exhibitions, and articles about art and those who love it or create it.
Discover new ways to stretch your imagination, be introduced to new artists, their exhibits, and books to read about them. Expect to excite your mind. Comments are very welcome! -- Rosemary Carstens
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| Janus - 19"x17"x15" |
Adrian Arleo is an extraordinarily imaginative ceramic artist and her pieces communicate a sophisticated exploration of the interaction between what is seen and known about the connection between humans and animals—and what is mysterious, unseen, and, perhaps, only intuitable.
Arleo’s latest exhibition, featuring all new works, opens Friday, July 23rd, with an artist’s reception from 5–7pm, and runs through August 16th at the Jane Sauer Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. The artist hails from Lolo, MT, and her studio, as does her work, reflects her fascination with nature’s many forms. In other words, nature doesn’t stay outside while she creates inside. Her window sills, and every surface within her studio, hold a wild collection of beehives, honeycombs, birds’ nests, rocks, twigs, shells, and other bits and pieces she’s come upon outdoors and brought here to consider further, to inspire. The studio’s windows, doors, and the artist herself are open to life and its continually evolving, ever-changing spiritual intersections.
Fascinated by “the glimpses we get into what is normally unseeable and mysterious,” Arleo’s newest works hold both interior and exterior surprises. For example, JANUS, created in January 2010, arose from the mythological Roman God of beginnings, a single figure gazing simultaneously backwards and forwards through time. For the artist, each new year brings fresh possibilities and the baby hidden within this piece “represents this vulnerable, blank slate feeling.”
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| Standing Lion with Internal Woman - 23"x32"x12" |
A constant theme for Arleo is metamorphosis, an exploration of the intersection between man and nature, the shape-shifting thread of relationship that runs constantly between the two. In STANDING LION WITH INTERNAL WOMAN, she uses delicate carving, an open fretwork, to allow us glimpses of a mysterious interior. In all of her pieces, the artist provides an intriguing frame for the viewer’s individual interpretation. As Arleo puts it, her lion figures are “a continuation of the running narrative in all my work, that everything is connected, that there is no 'Other,' that we are made of the same substances and are all dependent upon the same elemental forces.”
Adrian Arleo’s sculpture is exhibited internationally, and is in numerous public and private collections. Her pieces are richly evocative and narrative. Each creation is a complex combination of clay, glazes, and wax encaustic, some including gold leaf, and involves an exceptional degree of craftsmanship. Her work is incomparable and I guarantee that a visit to this exhibition will be rewarding—something you will not soon forget!
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| Matrimony - 19"x25.5"x14" |
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Porcelain painter IRINA ZAYTCEVA was a resounding hit at the Annual International Expositions of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art in New York (SOFA NY) earlier this year. As Jorden Nye, manager of the Jane Sauer Gallery in Santa Fe, expressed it: “Irina is one the absolutely best contemporary painted-porcelain artists of anyone I’ve seen and everyone wanted to stop by our booth and see her work!” After looking at her work myself, I think the artist’s popularity and appeal will hold true this week at SOFA Santa Fe as well.
A native of Russia, Zaytceva graduated from the Art Institute
of Moscow with a BA and an MFA in book illustration. Early on the artist experimented with ways to incorporate her painting and book illustration skills into the plastic elements of ceramics. She immigrated to the United States in 1990 and now lives and works in Princeton, NJ.
Zaytceva’s wonderfully whimsical line of pottery, named “Face-Tea-Witties,” delights viewers and collectors alike with their narrative, Russian fairytale sensibility. She imaginatively blends figures and nature in fresh, three-dimensional ways only achievable by an artist who has mastered her craft. Her work is completely original; each piece is hand built from high-fired porcelain and painted using colorful glazing layers that create exceptional depth and translucency.
The artist is represented by JANE SAUER GALLERY in Santa Fe, and can also be seen in private collections and museums, including the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia.
If you are in Santa Fe this weekend, don’t miss the fabulous SOFA show, running July 8-11—for Zaytceva’s work and that of many other world-class artists!
For full details about SOFA: http://www.sofaexpo.com/
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