The objective of this exhibition is to give AAG Associate Members an opportunity to display a current Body of Work.
Show Dates: Saturday April 16- May 20, 2022
Reception: April 19, 2022 | AAG General Meeting
The exhibition will be available for viewing at Arizona Artists Guild, 18411 N. 7th Ave. in Phoenix, AZ 85023,
Mondays 9am-noon, Wednesdays 1-4 during Open Studio, during AAG
events, or by appointment.
I am a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Before moving to Arizona, I was chapter president of the Glass Artisans of the PGC (2012-2016). Two notable events for the Glass Artisans during my presidency: Dinner, lecture and exhibit, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, and a touring lecture and exhibit, “Freedom Quilt and the Underground Railroad in Northeast Pennsylvania”, celebrating Black History Month in collaboration with the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies. I really get thrill out of working in textured clear. In the beginning, textured clear represented a more economical way to get experience in the discipline, but the attraction was much more than just saving. Translating expression and feeling using line and form has given me insight into what is possible in this medium.
FLORINE DUFFIELD
The Davis Boys
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21 X 27 Inches
Price: $950.00
PHOTOGRPAHER / PAINTER / INSTRUCTOR florineduffield.com florineduffieldart.com Phone: 623 565 0605 e mail: FlorineDuffield@hotmail.com Florine is an international award-winning photographer, painter & instructor. Her incredible images have appeared in galleries and private collections throughout the US, the UK and at the Association of Photographers Gallery, London. Florine’s career started in New York City during the 60’s working as a model/actress/singer. 1970’s – present day, Florine operated commercial photography and fine art studios in Dallas, TX; New York City; Arizona; and the UK Florine resides in Sun City, AZ where she teaches art workshops and portrait photography classes Permanent collection – Public Libraries & Fairways Recreation Center of Sun City, AZ – Florine has 50 pieces of art hanging and the collection continues to grow – all images of Arizona SELECTED SHOWS *New Members Show, Association Gallery London, December 1996 *Self Portraits, Association Gallery London, April 1998 *Landscapes, Association Gallery London June 1998 *Positively Art, The Switchboard Colchester, UK June 1998 *New York/London, Association Gallery, London September 1998 *Erotica, Olympia Hall, London April 1998 *Obsessions, Association Gallery London August 1999 *Naked, Association Gallery London September 1999 *Pinetop, AZ One person show-August 2000 *Living Outloud-numerous shows Pinetop, AZ 2001-2002 *Scottsdale & Cave Creek Fine Art Festivals October/November 20002 *Artoconecto Gallery Show Washington, D.C. November 2002 *Women’s Center Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara “Women and Technology” April 2004 *Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX – September 11, 2008 *Prodigious Art Gallery – member 2007 – 2009 *Art Expo – Las Vegas, NV – 2008 *Art Expo – NYC – 2008 & 2009 *Sun City 50th Anniversary – 2009 & 2010 *Permanent Collection – Fairway Rec Center, Sun City, AZ 2012 – present *Public Libraries Sun City, AZ many photos and paintings – changing exhibition *Gallery Glendale, Honorable Mention, Glendale, AZ 20013 *West Valley Arts Council, Floral & Botanical Illustrations – February 2014 *Celebration of Artists 2014 – City of Peoria, AZ and West Valley Arts Council, May 2014 *Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Museum, Birds, Blooms & Bugs – 3 month exhibit 2014 * Arizona State Fair, Honorable Mention – 2014 *Sun City Art Show – won First Place in Portrait Category – February 2014 *Sun City Art Show – won First Place in Animals Category (plus two other ribbons)– February 2015 *West Valley Arts Council, Floral & Botanical – “People’s Choice Award” – April 2015 *West Valley Art Museum – March – May 2015 and May 2021 * West Valley Arts Council, Surprise City Hall Art Gallery, May 2015 *Sun City Art Show – won two ribbons – February 2016 *Glendale Art Show 2020, Honorable Mention *Sun City Art Show2020 Judges’ Choice *Arizona Artists Guild Juried Exhibition 2020 * Palo Verde Art Club – First Place, Oil Painting 2021 EDUCATION Queens College, NYC New York University, NYC Elkins Institute, Dallas, Texas Arvon Foundation, England ASMP – ongoing educational seminars Phoenix, AZ – studies oil painting, various teachers / Arizona Artists Guild / Scottsdale Artist School PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS-PAST AND PRESENT AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS BOARD MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY LONDON, UK PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF AMERICA ARIZONA ARTISTS GUILD PALO VERDE ART CLUB & ARTISTS BY THE LAKE, SUN CITY, AZ – BOARD MEMBER OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA WORK PROJECTS Arizona Images – ongoing project shooting desert botanicals and the American Southwest. Works hang in permanent collection at the Public Libraries & Fairway Recreation Center in Sun City, AZ Spring 2002 launched a fine art publishing business in order to print and sell her art and the art of other artists December 2003 and 2004 was invited to exhibit work in the “Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea” in Florence, Italy. This event is organized by the World Bank, UNESCO. March 2004 received Robert Rauschenberg Grant for Artists 2019 – present – Instructor at Art Clubs and Camera Guild in Sun City CIVIC ACTIVITIES June 2002 Created images for t shirts to raise money for the recovery fund during the Rodeo Chediski Fire. Worked with other volunteers, media, corporate sponsors. 2010 Board member/membership committee for the American Society of Media Photographers 2010 – 2011 Event photographer for the year-long celebration “50th Anniversary of Sun City, AZ” 2009 – present – pro bono photography for Muscular Dystrophy, Spina Bifida Association and Ovarian Cancer Society. 2008 – present – pro bono photography for “Flashes of Hope” portraits for cancer children at summer camp and Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Hao Shi
Dare to Cross
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 41.5 x 32
Price: 2200
Chinese born artist Eric Hao Shi was confronted with a seismic culture shift during his adolescent years when his family migrated to the United States. This singular life changing event had a profound impact on the way he sees the world. Channeling this unique perspective, Eric strives to create art that is representative and honest to his life experience and cultural diversity. Utilizing expressive lines and bold colors, Eric explores the relationship between the artist and his subject matter through portraiture, landscapes and more. An avid traveler and SCUBA diver, Eric hopes to continually progress and evolve his artistic style, as he immerses himself into different cultures.
Christopher Forslund
Fortress
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 11″X14″
Price: $130.00
Photography is an art form that can capture a moment in time along with the emotion experienced in that moment. The power of a photograph helped ignite my love for photography and as a young child, I primarily shot with black and white film, while developing prints in the darkroom my parents’ setup for me in my bedroom closet. The passion for photography has never diminished and now my wife and I travel full time in our RV exploring and capturing the beauty that this great Nation has to offer. Each shoot still invokes childlike excitement from deep within my soul.
Jody Miles
Queen Bella
Medium: watercolor
Dimensions: 16 x 20
Price: 300
I began painting in watercolor shortly before I retired from teaching. I taught myself to paint using magazines, books, as well as videos. Then I joined various watercolor associations and began to enter shows. I find art to be a very satisfying way to provide relaxation and meaning to my life.
Tracy Laasch
Retrieving Alpacages
Medium: Mixed Media/ Fiber Arts/ Needle Felted Sculpture
Dimensions: 13” h x 11” w x 11” d
Price: $725
Tracy Laasch is a Phoenix, AZ based artist. Being an artist since early childhood, Tracy spent her life exploring many art forms and winning several art contests, including 3rd place out of 150 entries at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Contest at just 15 years old. She later wrote and illustrated her own children’s storybook, but found her true passion with needle felting, where it was love at first stab. Tracy has always loved reading, and was inspired by the adorable animal characters that lived their amazing human lives in the children’s storybooks that she read over and over as a child. Combining her love of storybooks and art, coupled with her cultivated needle felting techniques, Tracy now creates extremely detailed mixed media/fiber art/needle felted sculptures that are collected by art lovers all over. Tracy currently exhibits and sells her art sculptures in several local art galleries as a juried artist. Artist Statement Creating whimsical, nostalgic, story book style animals, that tell their tales in 3-D form, are the hallmark of my art sculptures. My sculptures feature playful, anthropomorphic animals, that are reminiscent of the sweet characters that I read about as a child. Being able to re-create those endearing characters into 3-D sculptures is my way of bringing them to life. I create my sculptures entirely by hand, forming a wire armature that is wrapped in raw core wool, and then stabbing the wool repeatedly with various barbed needles until their basic bodies are formed and hardened. Once shaped, I use a colorful palette of wool to carefully “paint” them with felting needles, including eyes and intricate facial details, along with extremely detailed needle felted clothing, and finishing touches. I combine multiple characters to create funny scenarios, using great detail with an element of surprise to finish my sculptures. I truly enjoy dreaming up the humorous situations that my animals find themselves in. A typical sculpture takes me several weeks to create, as they are extremely detailed works of art. Each completed sculpture is finished off with my signature artist tag, hidden butterfly, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. “I love to see the joy and excitement on people’s faces when they look at my sculptures, as they are transported back to the happiest memories of their lives.” ~Tracy Laasch
Suzie Blackwell
Sky_Mountains
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 36″ x 48″
Price: 1220
Originally from Portland Oregon, Suzie moved to Phoenix Arizona with her husband and 3 sons in 2000. Suzie is a graphic designer and has worked in the Phoenix area as a freelance art director and designer for the past 20+ years. Recently, Suzie lost her sister and was grief stricken, a friend recommended she start painting again as a way of coping with her grief. While in college Suzie had several painting and drawing classes as well as ceramics, sculpture and lettering. So, she started painting again and has been working in Acrylic paints for the past year or so. Suzie mainly creates landscapes and abstracts using acrylic paint on canvas. Always an emphasis on sky, clouds and the country side as well as the ocean and the farming community. I am a graphic designer who has recently started painting again. I love trying new mediums and styles to create art. I was born in Salem, Oregon and have lived in Arizona since 2001. I miss my PNW roots and find myself painting images from the nature I remember there. I have been fascinated with farms as long as I can remember. I loved seeing the sun capture the water spraying from large sprinklers across acres of strawberry fields, combines gathering wheat, and boys on back of trucks hooking the hay bales onto trailers. There are vast amounts of rolling hills and generational farms in the community I grew up in near Silverton Oregon. I also miss the Oregon Coast and like to paint the ocean and ocean sky. I dabble in abstract paintings as well, working in Acrylic on canvas.
Bela Fidel
Kaleidoscope
Medium: Acrylic, Collage
Dimensions: 39″ x 30″
Price: $2,330
I am in constant search for my truest expression. Each painting takes me to roads travelled as well as uncharted territory, providing challenges for growth and humility. I feel I am always beginning, that my decades of painting are just the tip of the iceberg. However, I fear that encountering the complete iceberg will always elude me and, in fact, this may be a blessing. My search for my most authentic expression has led me to work with oils, Encaustics and mixed media. Most of all, it has taught me to venture into the unknown every single day. My love of layering and texturing and texture is what best expresses the many cultural layers I have encountered and absorbed while living in three different countries and being exposed to a variety of cultures and outlooks. I strive for richness, depth and elegance in my work.
Donna Ceraulo
More Questions
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 12×16
Brenda Johnson
Hey Cupcake
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 12×12
Tom Friese
Confessional
Medium: Acrylic and collage on Arches buff prepared paper
Dimensions: 22” x 30”
Price: $750
The submitted paintings are an extension of my totally non objective series, BLACK+WHITE. These three acrylic paintings include photo collage. I was challenged to incorporate realism and figurative images into the B+W series. Arches buff paper is coated with several layers of acrylic gel medium and mounted on MDF panels. BLACK+WHITE attempts to balance the absence of color-white with the sum of all colors-black in large geometric or linear shapes. Primary colors and texture may be included. The addition of the photographs changes the entire equation. The process began with bold intentional areas of paint with no regard for the photos. Next I sorted through a trove of photographs, cropping and cutting, tearing and arranging images. Then placed them on 8-10 different paintings. Images were discarded, more paint or textures applied until a story emerged. The photos are courtesy of my friend and colleague, David Graham.
I am a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Before moving to Arizona, I was chapter president of the Glass Artisans of the PGC (2012-2016). Two notable events for the Glass Artisans during my presidency: Dinner, lecture and exhibit, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, and a touring lecture and exhibit, “Freedom Quilt and the Underground Railroad in Northeast Pennsylvania”, celebrating Black History Month in collaboration with the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies. I really get thrill out of working in textured clear. In the beginning, textured clear represented a more economical way to get experience in the discipline, but the attraction was much more than just saving. Translating expression and feeling using line and form has given me insight into what is possible in this medium.
FLORINE DUFFIELD
Mya & Max
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 X 23 Inches
Price: $1200.00
PHOTOGRPAHER / PAINTER / INSTRUCTOR florineduffield.com florineduffieldart.com Phone: 623 565 0605 e mail: FlorineDuffield@hotmail.com Florine is an international award-winning photographer, painter & instructor. Her incredible images have appeared in galleries and private collections throughout the US, the UK and at the Association of Photographers Gallery, London. Florine’s career started in New York City during the 60’s working as a model/actress/singer. 1970’s – present day, Florine operated commercial photography and fine art studios in Dallas, TX; New York City; Arizona; and the UK Florine resides in Sun City, AZ where she teaches art workshops and portrait photography classes Permanent collection – Public Libraries & Fairways Recreation Center of Sun City, AZ – Florine has 50 pieces of art hanging and the collection continues to grow – all images of Arizona SELECTED SHOWS *New Members Show, Association Gallery London, December 1996 *Self Portraits, Association Gallery London, April 1998 *Landscapes, Association Gallery London June 1998 *Positively Art, The Switchboard Colchester, UK June 1998 *New York/London, Association Gallery, London September 1998 *Erotica, Olympia Hall, London April 1998 *Obsessions, Association Gallery London August 1999 *Naked, Association Gallery London September 1999 *Pinetop, AZ One person show-August 2000 *Living Outloud-numerous shows Pinetop, AZ 2001-2002 *Scottsdale & Cave Creek Fine Art Festivals October/November 20002 *Artoconecto Gallery Show Washington, D.C. November 2002 *Women’s Center Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara “Women and Technology” April 2004 *Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX – September 11, 2008 *Prodigious Art Gallery – member 2007 – 2009 *Art Expo – Las Vegas, NV – 2008 *Art Expo – NYC – 2008 & 2009 *Sun City 50th Anniversary – 2009 & 2010 *Permanent Collection – Fairway Rec Center, Sun City, AZ 2012 – present *Public Libraries Sun City, AZ many photos and paintings – changing exhibition *Gallery Glendale, Honorable Mention, Glendale, AZ 20013 *West Valley Arts Council, Floral & Botanical Illustrations – February 2014 *Celebration of Artists 2014 – City of Peoria, AZ and West Valley Arts Council, May 2014 *Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Museum, Birds, Blooms & Bugs – 3 month exhibit 2014 * Arizona State Fair, Honorable Mention – 2014 *Sun City Art Show – won First Place in Portrait Category – February 2014 *Sun City Art Show – won First Place in Animals Category (plus two other ribbons)– February 2015 *West Valley Arts Council, Floral & Botanical – “People’s Choice Award” – April 2015 *West Valley Art Museum – March – May 2015 and May 2021 * West Valley Arts Council, Surprise City Hall Art Gallery, May 2015 *Sun City Art Show – won two ribbons – February 2016 *Glendale Art Show 2020, Honorable Mention *Sun City Art Show2020 Judges’ Choice *Arizona Artists Guild Juried Exhibition 2020 * Palo Verde Art Club – First Place, Oil Painting 2021 EDUCATION Queens College, NYC New York University, NYC Elkins Institute, Dallas, Texas Arvon Foundation, England ASMP – ongoing educational seminars Phoenix, AZ – studies oil painting, various teachers / Arizona Artists Guild / Scottsdale Artist School PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS-PAST AND PRESENT AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS BOARD MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY LONDON, UK PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF AMERICA ARIZONA ARTISTS GUILD PALO VERDE ART CLUB & ARTISTS BY THE LAKE, SUN CITY, AZ – BOARD MEMBER OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA WORK PROJECTS Arizona Images – ongoing project shooting desert botanicals and the American Southwest. Works hang in permanent collection at the Public Libraries & Fairway Recreation Center in Sun City, AZ Spring 2002 launched a fine art publishing business in order to print and sell her art and the art of other artists December 2003 and 2004 was invited to exhibit work in the “Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea” in Florence, Italy. This event is organized by the World Bank, UNESCO. March 2004 received Robert Rauschenberg Grant for Artists 2019 – present – Instructor at Art Clubs and Camera Guild in Sun City CIVIC ACTIVITIES June 2002 Created images for t shirts to raise money for the recovery fund during the Rodeo Chediski Fire. Worked with other volunteers, media, corporate sponsors. 2010 Board member/membership committee for the American Society of Media Photographers 2010 – 2011 Event photographer for the year-long celebration “50th Anniversary of Sun City, AZ” 2009 – present – pro bono photography for Muscular Dystrophy, Spina Bifida Association and Ovarian Cancer Society. 2008 – present – pro bono photography for “Flashes of Hope” portraits for cancer children at summer camp and Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Hao Shi
Everything has changed, nothing has changed.
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 41.5 x 32
Price: 2200
Chinese born artist Eric Hao Shi was confronted with a seismic culture shift during his adolescent years when his family migrated to the United States. This singular life changing event had a profound impact on the way he sees the world. Channeling this unique perspective, Eric strives to create art that is representative and honest to his life experience and cultural diversity. Utilizing expressive lines and bold colors, Eric explores the relationship between the artist and his subject matter through portraiture, landscapes and more. An avid traveler and SCUBA diver, Eric hopes to continually progress and evolve his artistic style, as he immerses himself into different cultures.
Christopher Forslund
Overseer
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 11″X14″
Price: $130.00
Photography is an art form that can capture a moment in time along with the emotion experienced in that moment. The power of a photograph helped ignite my love for photography and as a young child, I primarily shot with black and white film, while developing prints in the darkroom my parents’ setup for me in my bedroom closet. The passion for photography has never diminished and now my wife and I travel full time in our RV exploring and capturing the beauty that this great Nation has to offer. Each shoot still invokes childlike excitement from deep within my soul.
Jody Miles
Bird Choir On Zoom
Medium: watercolor
Dimensions: 22″ x 22″
Price: 400
I began painting in watercolor shortly before I retired from teaching. I taught myself to paint using magazines, books, as well as videos. Then I joined various watercolor associations and began to enter shows. I find art to be a very satisfying way to provide relaxation and meaning to my life.
Treehouse Tales
Medium: Mixed Media/ Fiber Arts/ Needle Felted Sculpture
Dimensions: 15 h x 16 w x 14 d
Price: $745
Tracy Laasch is a Phoenix, AZ based artist. Being an artist since early childhood, Tracy spent her life exploring many art forms and winning several art contests, including 3rd place out of 150 entries at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Contest at just 15 years old. She later wrote and illustrated her own children’s storybook, but found her true passion with needle felting, where it was love at first stab. Tracy has always loved reading, and was inspired by the adorable animal characters that lived their amazing human lives in the children’s storybooks that she read over and over as a child. Combining her love of storybooks and art, coupled with her cultivated needle felting techniques, Tracy now creates extremely detailed mixed media/fiber art/needle felted sculptures that are collected by art lovers all over. Tracy currently exhibits and sells her art sculptures in several local art galleries as a juried artist. Artist Statement Creating whimsical, nostalgic, story book style animals, that tell their tales in 3-D form, are the hallmark of my art sculptures. My sculptures feature playful, anthropomorphic animals, that are reminiscent of the sweet characters that I read about as a child. Being able to re-create those endearing characters into 3-D sculptures is my way of bringing them to life. I create my sculptures entirely by hand, forming a wire armature that is wrapped in raw core wool, and then stabbing the wool repeatedly with various barbed needles until their basic bodies are formed and hardened. Once shaped, I use a colorful palette of wool to carefully “paint” them with felting needles, including eyes and intricate facial details, along with extremely detailed needle felted clothing, and finishing touches. I combine multiple characters to create funny scenarios, using great detail with an element of surprise to finish my sculptures. I truly enjoy dreaming up the humorous situations that my animals find themselves in. A typical sculpture takes me several weeks to create, as they are extremely detailed works of art. Each completed sculpture is finished off with my signature artist tag, hidden butterfly, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. “I love to see the joy and excitement on people’s faces when they look at my sculptures, as they are transported back to the happiest memories of their lives.” ~Tracy Laasch
Suzie Blackwell
Earth_Sky_Water
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 36″ x 48″
Price: 820
Originally from Portland Oregon, Suzie moved to Phoenix Arizona with her husband and 3 sons in 2000. Suzie is a graphic designer and has worked in the Phoenix area as a freelance art director and designer for the past 20+ years. Recently, Suzie lost her sister and was grief stricken, a friend recommended she start painting again as a way of coping with her grief. While in college Suzie had several painting and drawing classes as well as ceramics, sculpture and lettering. So, she started painting again and has been working in Acrylic paints for the past year or so. Suzie mainly creates landscapes and abstracts using acrylic paint on canvas. Always an emphasis on sky, clouds and the country side as well as the ocean and the farming community. I am a graphic designer who has recently started painting again. I love trying new mediums and styles to create art. I was born in Salem, Oregon and have lived in Arizona since 2001. I miss my PNW roots and find myself painting images from the nature I remember there. I have been fascinated with farms as long as I can remember. I loved seeing the sun capture the water spraying from large sprinklers across acres of strawberry fields, combines gathering wheat, and boys on back of trucks hooking the hay bales onto trailers. There are vast amounts of rolling hills and generational farms in the community I grew up in near Silverton Oregon. I also miss the Oregon Coast and like to paint the ocean and ocean sky. I dabble in abstract paintings as well, working in Acrylic on canvas.
Bela Fidel
Rebirth
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 36″ x 30″
Price: $2,300
I am in constant search for my truest expression. Each painting takes me to roads travelled as well as uncharted territory, providing challenges for growth and humility. I feel I am always beginning, that my decades of painting are just the tip of the iceberg. However, I fear that encountering the complete iceberg will always elude me and, in fact, this may be a blessing. My search for my most authentic expression has led me to work with oils, Encaustics and mixed media. Most of all, it has taught me to venture into the unknown every single day. My love of layering and texturing and texture is what best expresses the many cultural layers I have encountered and absorbed while living in three different countries and being exposed to a variety of cultures and outlooks. I strive for richness, depth and elegance in my work.
Donna Ceraulo
Demure Gaze
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 16×20
Brenda Johnson
Hello Sunshine
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 14 x 14
The Wheels Came Off
Medium: Acrylic and collage on Arches buff prepared paper
Dimensions: 30” x 22”
Price: $750
The submitted paintings are an extension of my totally non objective series, BLACK+WHITE. These three acrylic paintings include photo collage. I was challenged to incorporate realism and figurative images into the B+W series. Arches buff paper is coated with several layers of acrylic gel medium and mounted on MDF panels. BLACK+WHITE attempts to balance the absence of color-white with the sum of all colors-black in large geometric or linear shapes. Primary colors and texture may be included. The addition of the photographs changes the entire equation. The process began with bold intentional areas of paint with no regard for the photos. Next I sorted through a trove of photographs, cropping and cutting, tearing and arranging images. Then placed them on 8-10 different paintings. Images were discarded, more paint or textures applied until a story emerged. The photos are courtesy of my friend and colleague, David Graham.
Catch of the Day
Medium: Textured Clear Leaded Glass
Size: 35.5″ x 23.25″ x 1″
I am a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Before moving to Arizona, I was chapter president of the Glass Artisans of the PGC (2012-2016). Two notable events for the Glass Artisans during my presidency: Dinner, lecture and exhibit, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, and a touring lecture and exhibit, “Freedom Quilt and the Underground Railroad in Northeast Pennsylvania”, celebrating Black History Month in collaboration with the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies. I really get thrill out of working in textured clear. In the beginning, textured clear represented a more economical way to get experience in the discipline, but the attraction was much more than just saving. Translating expression and feeling using line and form has given me insight into what is possible in this medium.
FLORINE DUFFIELD
Benji
Medium: Oil on Wood cradled panel
Size: 12 X 12 Inches
Price: $500
PHOTOGRPAHER / PAINTER / INSTRUCTOR florineduffield.com florineduffieldart.com Phone: 623 565 0605 e mail: FlorineDuffield@hotmail.com Florine is an international award-winning photographer, painter & instructor. Her incredible images have appeared in galleries and private collections throughout the US, the UK and at the Association of Photographers Gallery, London. Florine’s career started in New York City during the 60’s working as a model/actress/singer. 1970’s – present day, Florine operated commercial photography and fine art studios in Dallas, TX; New York City; Arizona; and the UK Florine resides in Sun City, AZ where she teaches art workshops and portrait photography classes Permanent collection – Public Libraries & Fairways Recreation Center of Sun City, AZ – Florine has 50 pieces of art hanging and the collection continues to grow – all images of Arizona SELECTED SHOWS *New Members Show, Association Gallery London, December 1996 *Self Portraits, Association Gallery London, April 1998 *Landscapes, Association Gallery London June 1998 *Positively Art, The Switchboard Colchester, UK June 1998 *New York/London, Association Gallery, London September 1998 *Erotica, Olympia Hall, London April 1998 *Obsessions, Association Gallery London August 1999 *Naked, Association Gallery London September 1999 *Pinetop, AZ One person show-August 2000 *Living Outloud-numerous shows Pinetop, AZ 2001-2002 *Scottsdale & Cave Creek Fine Art Festivals October/November 20002 *Artoconecto Gallery Show Washington, D.C. November 2002 *Women’s Center Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara “Women and Technology” April 2004 *Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX – September 11, 2008 *Prodigious Art Gallery – member 2007 – 2009 *Art Expo – Las Vegas, NV – 2008 *Art Expo – NYC – 2008 & 2009 *Sun City 50th Anniversary – 2009 & 2010 *Permanent Collection – Fairway Rec Center, Sun City, AZ 2012 – present *Public Libraries Sun City, AZ many photos and paintings – changing exhibition *Gallery Glendale, Honorable Mention, Glendale, AZ 20013 *West Valley Arts Council, Floral & Botanical Illustrations – February 2014 *Celebration of Artists 2014 – City of Peoria, AZ and West Valley Arts Council, May 2014 *Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Museum, Birds, Blooms & Bugs – 3 month exhibit 2014 * Arizona State Fair, Honorable Mention – 2014 *Sun City Art Show – won First Place in Portrait Category – February 2014 *Sun City Art Show – won First Place in Animals Category (plus two other ribbons)– February 2015 *West Valley Arts Council, Floral & Botanical – “People’s Choice Award” – April 2015 *West Valley Art Museum – March – May 2015 and May 2021 * West Valley Arts Council, Surprise City Hall Art Gallery, May 2015 *Sun City Art Show – won two ribbons – February 2016 *Glendale Art Show 2020, Honorable Mention *Sun City Art Show2020 Judges’ Choice *Arizona Artists Guild Juried Exhibition 2020 * Palo Verde Art Club – First Place, Oil Painting 2021 EDUCATION Queens College, NYC New York University, NYC Elkins Institute, Dallas, Texas Arvon Foundation, England ASMP – ongoing educational seminars Phoenix, AZ – studies oil painting, various teachers / Arizona Artists Guild / Scottsdale Artist School PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS-PAST AND PRESENT AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS BOARD MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY LONDON, UK PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF AMERICA ARIZONA ARTISTS GUILD PALO VERDE ART CLUB & ARTISTS BY THE LAKE, SUN CITY, AZ – BOARD MEMBER OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA WORK PROJECTS Arizona Images – ongoing project shooting desert botanicals and the American Southwest. Works hang in permanent collection at the Public Libraries & Fairway Recreation Center in Sun City, AZ Spring 2002 launched a fine art publishing business in order to print and sell her art and the art of other artists December 2003 and 2004 was invited to exhibit work in the “Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea” in Florence, Italy. This event is organized by the World Bank, UNESCO. March 2004 received Robert Rauschenberg Grant for Artists 2019 – present – Instructor at Art Clubs and Camera Guild in Sun City CIVIC ACTIVITIES June 2002 Created images for t shirts to raise money for the recovery fund during the Rodeo Chediski Fire. Worked with other volunteers, media, corporate sponsors. 2010 Board member/membership committee for the American Society of Media Photographers 2010 – 2011 Event photographer for the year-long celebration “50th Anniversary of Sun City, AZ” 2009 – present – pro bono photography for Muscular Dystrophy, Spina Bifida Association and Ovarian Cancer Society. 2008 – present – pro bono photography for “Flashes of Hope” portraits for cancer children at summer camp and Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Hao Shi
Beauty in pain
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 41.5 x 32
Price: 2200
Chinese born artist Eric Hao Shi was confronted with a seismic culture shift during his adolescent years when his family migrated to the United States. This singular life changing event had a profound impact on the way he sees the world. Channeling this unique perspective, Eric strives to create art that is representative and honest to his life experience and cultural diversity. Utilizing expressive lines and bold colors, Eric explores the relationship between the artist and his subject matter through portraiture, landscapes and more. An avid traveler and SCUBA diver, Eric hopes to continually progress and evolve his artistic style, as he immerses himself into different cultures.
Christopher Forslund
Brothers
Medium: Photography
Dimensions: 10″X20″
Price: $200.00
Photography is an art form that can capture a moment in time along with the emotion experienced in that moment. The power of a photograph helped ignite my love for photography and as a young child, I primarily shot with black and white film, while developing prints in the darkroom my parents’ setup for me in my bedroom closet. The passion for photography has never diminished and now my wife and I travel full time in our RV exploring and capturing the beauty that this great Nation has to offer. Each shoot still invokes childlike excitement from deep within my soul.
Jody Miles
Open Borders
Medium: watercolor
Dimensions: 22 x 28
Price: 600
I began painting in watercolor shortly before I retired from teaching. I taught myself to paint using magazines, books, as well as videos. Then I joined various watercolor associations and began to enter shows. I find art to be a very satisfying way to provide relaxation and meaning to my life.
Tracy Laasch
Sharing the Love of Art
Medium: Mixed Media/ Fiber Arts/ Needle Felted Sculpture
Dimensions: 15 h x 16 w x 14 d
Price: $745
Tracy Laasch is a Phoenix, AZ based artist. Being an artist since early childhood, Tracy spent her life exploring many art forms and winning several art contests, including 3rd place out of 150 entries at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Contest at just 15 years old. She later wrote and illustrated her own children’s storybook, but found her true passion with needle felting, where it was love at first stab. Tracy has always loved reading, and was inspired by the adorable animal characters that lived their amazing human lives in the children’s storybooks that she read over and over as a child. Combining her love of storybooks and art, coupled with her cultivated needle felting techniques, Tracy now creates extremely detailed mixed media/fiber art/needle felted sculptures that are collected by art lovers all over. Tracy currently exhibits and sells her art sculptures in several local art galleries as a juried artist. Artist Statement Creating whimsical, nostalgic, story book style animals, that tell their tales in 3-D form, are the hallmark of my art sculptures. My sculptures feature playful, anthropomorphic animals, that are reminiscent of the sweet characters that I read about as a child. Being able to re-create those endearing characters into 3-D sculptures is my way of bringing them to life. I create my sculptures entirely by hand, forming a wire armature that is wrapped in raw core wool, and then stabbing the wool repeatedly with various barbed needles until their basic bodies are formed and hardened. Once shaped, I use a colorful palette of wool to carefully “paint” them with felting needles, including eyes and intricate facial details, along with extremely detailed needle felted clothing, and finishing touches. I combine multiple characters to create funny scenarios, using great detail with an element of surprise to finish my sculptures. I truly enjoy dreaming up the humorous situations that my animals find themselves in. A typical sculpture takes me several weeks to create, as they are extremely detailed works of art. Each completed sculpture is finished off with my signature artist tag, hidden butterfly, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. “I love to see the joy and excitement on people’s faces when they look at my sculptures, as they are transported back to the happiest memories of their lives.” ~Tracy Laasch
Suzie Blackwell
Sunset
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 36″ x 48″
Price: 760
Originally from Portland Oregon, Suzie moved to Phoenix Arizona with her husband and 3 sons in 2000. Suzie is a graphic designer and has worked in the Phoenix area as a freelance art director and designer for the past 20+ years. Recently, Suzie lost her sister and was grief stricken, a friend recommended she start painting again as a way of coping with her grief. While in college Suzie had several painting and drawing classes as well as ceramics, sculpture and lettering. So, she started painting again and has been working in Acrylic paints for the past year or so. Suzie mainly creates landscapes and abstracts using acrylic paint on canvas. Always an emphasis on sky, clouds and the country side as well as the ocean and the farming community. I am a graphic designer who has recently started painting again. I love trying new mediums and styles to create art. I was born in Salem, Oregon and have lived in Arizona since 2001. I miss my PNW roots and find myself painting images from the nature I remember there. I have been fascinated with farms as long as I can remember. I loved seeing the sun capture the water spraying from large sprinklers across acres of strawberry fields, combines gathering wheat, and boys on back of trucks hooking the hay bales onto trailers. There are vast amounts of rolling hills and generational farms in the community I grew up in near Silverton Oregon. I also miss the Oregon Coast and like to paint the ocean and ocean sky. I dabble in abstract paintings as well, working in Acrylic on canvas.
Bela Fidel
Black & White with Blue
Medium: Acryic
Dimensions: 20″ x 20″
Price: $800
I am in constant search for my truest expression. Each painting takes me to roads travelled as well as uncharted territory, providing challenges for growth and humility. I feel I am always beginning, that my decades of painting are just the tip of the iceberg. However, I fear that encountering the complete iceberg will always elude me and, in fact, this may be a blessing. My search for my most authentic expression has led me to work with oils, Encaustics and mixed media. Most of all, it has taught me to venture into the unknown every single day. My love of layering and texturing and texture is what best expresses the many cultural layers I have encountered and absorbed while living in three different countries and being exposed to a variety of cultures and outlooks. I strive for richness, depth and elegance in my work.
Donna Ceraulo
Endless Wonder
Medium: Mixed Media
Dimensions: 12×16
Brenda Johnson
Provence
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 15 x 18
Hit the Wall
Medium: Acrylic and collage on Arches buff prepared paper
Dimensions: 22”x30”
Price: $750
The submitted paintings are an extension of my totally non objective series, BLACK+WHITE. These three acrylic paintings include photo collage. I was challenged to incorporate realism and figurative images into the B+W series. Arches buff paper is coated with several layers of acrylic gel medium and mounted on MDF panels. BLACK+WHITE attempts to balance the absence of color-white with the sum of all colors-black in large geometric or linear shapes. Primary colors and texture may be included. The addition of the photographs changes the entire equation. The process began with bold intentional areas of paint with no regard for the photos. Next I sorted through a trove of photographs, cropping and cutting, tearing and arranging images. Then placed them on 8-10 different paintings. Images were discarded, more paint or textures applied until a story emerged. The photos are courtesy of my friend and colleague, David Graham.
Tom Sharp
Mission Bells
Medium: Pastel
Size: 9″ x 12″
Price: $700
Pastel, Oil, Pen & Ink and Prismacolor Pencils. Landscapes and Portraits
Jean Rossman
Gathering No Moss
Medium: watercolor
Size: 18″ x 13″
Price: $ 375
There is a Kindergarten photo with a little girl standing at the easel, brush in hand, in the back of the class picture. Always drawing and painting for fun until completing a BFA in mid-life, then a career in computer graphics and now again, art for fun Artist Statement As I create, I look for imagery that invites the viewer to participate. Although I may indicate a narrative, I often omit the obvious, add some whimsy or abstract some of the more realistic shapes. This is in hope that each viewer will perceive a personal interpretation.
Maria Karlosak
Still beautiful -1
Medium: Acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 16″ x 24″
Price: 450
Maria Karlosak is a visual Artist,she combines figures, realism and abstract with an intense, everything-all-at-once style. Maria loves to paint landscapes and cityscapes. She saw a great potential in this form of painting and expression despite the difficulty of this style. She puts to canvas the sights that capture her interest, as well as the beauty of nature she sees during her travels .Color, Texture and Composition are important elements in her work. Maria is a A member of Juried Artists in AAG. She has received several awards for her art. The Artist Says: I love painting Abstract. When I am painting, I don’t plan what I am going to put on canvas. I let my feelings and imagination drive my brush or palette knife. I paint many different kind of subjects, but the landscape is always my favorite .
Velvet Tetrault
Blue Hummingbird and Morning Glories
Medium: acrylic
Dimensions: 18″ x 22″
Price: $1280
I have been painting for 45 years. By age 17, I had realized that I could express myself in a painting when I felt different from other people, misunderstood, or just bold over by the beauty in nature. Seeing the results of my thoughts on canvas comforted me. So I embarked on a journey of artistic mastery, which continues to this day. I always loved colors. I started out making images on linoleum and printing them. By the time I was 19, I was enthralled with realistic Science Fiction art. My favorite artists were Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, and Salvador Dali. My first paintings on canvas were people from SF stories that I wrote. I liked the fact that the images were out of my imagination. Besides taking college art courses in my 20’s, I amassed and studied a library of hundreds of art books and instructional videos; took many workshops taught by established artists, and attended conventions where I learned a host of artistic techniques and styles. I painted an eclectic assortment of subjects: florals, landscapes, still life, birds, animals, fantasy, and people. In 1998, I became acquainted with decorative and tole painting. I spent several years going to workshops and studying videotapes of different artists. When I felt that I had gone as far as I could with the decorative painting of that era, I began experimenting with mixed media. I also studied Art History and Anatomy for Artists for 2 years. Subsequently, I taught anatomy to artists at WHAM and Palo Verde Art Club. Eventually, a desire to paint scenes that portray and symbolize subconscious matters led me to an advanced degree in Psychology, which gave me an understanding of human motivation. This eventually enabled me to create paintings that reflected the diverse, but core, nature of personality, thoughts, and emotions so that I could share this comforting knowledge with others. These are paintings with stories and allegories. My artistic goal became to specialize in creating imaginative and introspective paintings; to help my customers decorate their surroundings with art that reflected their inner voice. By 2017, I began painting birds. Then, with florals and scrolls. I studied casual florals and bird painting for three years with David Jansen. I have studied dozens of videos on painting flowers and birds by various artists. While continuing painting those subjects, I also studied painting portraits, especially the color and tones in the highlights and shadows. While I still create a small bird painting occasionally, I focus now on paintings with psychological meaning, such as Allegorical paintings and Fantastical/Fantasy paintings with a message. I have ventured into this realm with a 5-painting series called “DESIRE”. You can find all of my paintings on my website: TetraultArtStudio.com AZOpen Borders
Marvella Frey
Pretty Nose, War Chief
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 30 x 30
Price: $750
I am a painter who is inspired by the beauty and diversity of people, places, nature, animals, and our planet. My current body of work focuses on portraits of women, some well known and others representing a group of people during a specific time. The three paintings I chose for this exhibit reflect women during wartime, past and present. Pretty Nose became a war chief during the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Harriet Tubman worked for the Union Army during the Civil War, leading a raid that liberated more than 700 enslaved people. The painting of a Ukrainian woman represents all the women currently affected by the present day invasion of their county. My style is expressionist influenced and although I work towards a likeness, I use bold colors and mark marking to express emotions related to the subject.
Kimber Jones
Accept All of You
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 24 X 24
Price: $425
Landscape architect Kimber Jones’s painting journey began when she was 52 years old while studying under professional artist Kathy Taylor who taught her that painting fulfills her life purpose. She is known in Phoenix as an abstract expressionist that paints with her hands and prefers to create spontaneously on canvas, as freely as a child. Her art is inspired by life experiences and past challenges. Currently Kimber’s work is exhibited at FOUND:RE Contemporary and she recently celebrated a successful solo show at McDowell Mountain Ranch.
Michael Farmer
The Profits
Medium: Mixed Media on Panel
Dimensions: 36 inches by 36 inches by 4 inches
Price: $1800
My current series of artwork focuses on the intersection of society and technology. I use a background collage of printed Wikipedia articles that relate to the theme of the work. I add to that black acrylic paint reminiscent of the screen printing of the 1960’s for a focal point of the work. Then, in a carefully conceived schematic, evocative of a circuit diagram I add gold tape and paint, vacuum tubes, computer punch cards, circuit boards, religious medals, crucifixes, and a variety of symbolic objects that relate to the the specific subject of the individual art work. The motifs that motivate each art work spring from my personal history and tie into larger cultural concerns. My father was a mathematician who was involved in computers and coding before the rise of personal computing in the 1980’s. As a child I was always surrounded and influenced by my father’s obsession with computers, science, and logic. I was raised to have a respect and understanding for these topics, though my interests lay elsewhere. As the years progressed I saw the rise of technology from a new convenience to a pervasive, supremely powerful force in everyday life and the economy. This art series explores my perceptions of the spiritual and economic impact the digital revolution has on humanity. Through these art works I view our emerging technocracy through a critical lens of philosophy and inequality. Artist’s Bio: Michael Farmer has been a primarily self-taught artist for over 25 years. He has exhibited in several venues in Arizona and California including The Central Arts Collective in Tucson, AZ, Warehouse 1005, Herberger Theater, Alwun House Gallery, FOUND:RE Art Hotel, and The Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, AZ, Las Lagunas Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, and Blue Line Arts, in Roseville, CA as well as several online exhibitions. He has won multiple awards through Mesa Community College Gallery. He is in private collections in Phoenix, Austin, New York, Connecticut, and Ireland. His personal interests include Eastern Philosophy and the art of Bonsai. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1999. He was raised in Tempe, Arizona and now lives in Mesa, Arizona where he continues to make art while working towards a teaching certification in art.
Amy Newton-McConnel
Emmy
Medium: Photograph – gilcee print on canvas
Dimensions: 16.75″ wide, 20.75″ high, 1.5″ deep
Price: $500
I am an art photographer in Phoenix, Arizona. I have been highly creative since childhood, making art in various mediums. I have always had a camera and an interest in photographing the world around me through traditional photography techniques. In the past three years, I have discovered In Camera Movement (ICM) photography, which utilizes techniques where the camera is intentionally moved during the exposure to create painterly and abstract artistic effects. ICM has sparked my artistic creativity and allows me to create abstract art with my camera. I am inspired by lines and textures, colors and shapes and create art that inspires emotional response. ICM photography inspires me to see, feel and think differently and interpret my surroundings in a new and unexpected way. My goal is to find the extraordinary in the ordinary offering a unique perspective. This particular body of work focuses on the feel, sound and emotional response to musical instruments.
Kim Woods
Peaches and Copper
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 15 5/8” x 12 5/8”
Price: $225.00
Kim Woods has known since she got her first box of crayons that she was an artist. Her favorite class was always art. After high school she took many hours of art classes at Glendale Community College ranging from drawing to sculpture and had pieces accepted at the campus art show. Kim put her craft on hold when she started a family and later during her career in education. She decided the urge to create was too strong and took a painting class at the Phoenix Center for the Arts and during the Covid pandemic switched to an online oil painting class with Kelli Folsom. She prefers painting in oils and is always looking for ways to improve her art. She has recently explored in depth alla prima paintings of still lifes: creating depth, texture, color and light.
Singaporean Tranquility
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 20” x 16”
Price: $890.00
“I have a passion for art and I try to paint a story or mood on each canvas that the viewer can appreciate.”
Natalie has been drawing since she was eight years old and began painting as a young adult. She lived overseas and had
four one woman shows in Switzerland and Singapore. She has sold oil paintings, pastel portraits, and graphite drawings in Hawaii
Singapore, Switzerland, Delaware and Arizona. She had her image of “Barrel Racer” chosen by the Scottsdale Gallery Assoc. which
was on display for one year in down town Scottsdale. She continues to paint daily in her Scottsdale studio where she displays her
art. She is a juried member of the Sonoran Arts League, the Arizona Artists Guild and the Arizona Art Alliance. She is also a member
of the American Women Artists League.
Tom Sharp
Mission Arches
Medium: Pastel
Size: 9″ x 12″
Price: $700
Pastel, Oil, Pen & Ink and Prismacolor Pencils. Landscapes and Portraits
Jean Rossman
Finding the Path
Medium: watercolor
Size: 13″ x 16″
Price: $ 375
There is a Kindergarten photo with a little girl standing at the easel, brush in hand, in the back of the class picture. Always drawing and painting for fun until completing a BFA in mid-life, then a career in computer graphics and now again, art for fun Artist Statement As I create, I look for imagery that invites the viewer to participate. Although I may indicate a narrative, I often omit the obvious, add some whimsy or abstract some of the more realistic shapes. This is in hope that each viewer will perceive a personal interpretation.
Maria Karlosak
Still beautiful-2
Medium: Acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 16″ x 24″
Price: 450
Maria Karlosak is a visual Artist,she combines figures, realism and abstract with an intense, everything-all-at-once style. Maria loves to paint landscapes and cityscapes. She saw a great potential in this form of painting and expression despite the difficulty of this style. She puts to canvas the sights that capture her interest, as well as the beauty of nature she sees during her travels .Color, Texture and Composition are important elements in her work. Maria is a A member of Juried Artists in AAG. She has received several awards for her art. The Artist Says: I love painting Abstract. When I am painting, I don’t plan what I am going to put on canvas. I let my feelings and imagination drive my brush or palette knife. I paint many different kind of subjects, but the landscape is always my favorite .
Velvet Tetrault
Fluffy Bird and Blossoms
Medium: acrylic
Dimensions: 18″ x 22″
Price: $1280
I have been painting for 45 years. By age 17, I had realized that I could express myself in a painting when I felt different from other people, misunderstood, or just bold over by the beauty in nature. Seeing the results of my thoughts on canvas comforted me. So I embarked on a journey of artistic mastery, which continues to this day. I always loved colors. I started out making images on linoleum and printing them. By the time I was 19, I was enthralled with realistic Science Fiction art. My favorite artists were Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, and Salvador Dali. My first paintings on canvas were people from SF stories that I wrote. I liked the fact that the images were out of my imagination. Besides taking college art courses in my 20’s, I amassed and studied a library of hundreds of art books and instructional videos; took many workshops taught by established artists, and attended conventions where I learned a host of artistic techniques and styles. I painted an eclectic assortment of subjects: florals, landscapes, still life, birds, animals, fantasy, and people. In 1998, I became acquainted with decorative and tole painting. I spent several years going to workshops and studying videotapes of different artists. When I felt that I had gone as far as I could with the decorative painting of that era, I began experimenting with mixed media. I also studied Art History and Anatomy for Artists for 2 years. Subsequently, I taught anatomy to artists at WHAM and Palo Verde Art Club. Eventually, a desire to paint scenes that portray and symbolize subconscious matters led me to an advanced degree in Psychology, which gave me an understanding of human motivation. This eventually enabled me to create paintings that reflected the diverse, but core, nature of personality, thoughts, and emotions so that I could share this comforting knowledge with others. These are paintings with stories and allegories. My artistic goal became to specialize in creating imaginative and introspective paintings; to help my customers decorate their surroundings with art that reflected their inner voice. By 2017, I began painting birds. Then, with florals and scrolls. I studied casual florals and bird painting for three years with David Jansen. I have studied dozens of videos on painting flowers and birds by various artists. While continuing painting those subjects, I also studied painting portraits, especially the color and tones in the highlights and shadows. While I still create a small bird painting occasionally, I focus now on paintings with psychological meaning, such as Allegorical paintings and Fantastical/Fantasy paintings with a message. I have ventured into this realm with a 5-painting series called “DESIRE”. You can find all of my paintings on my website: TetraultArtStudio.com AZOpen Borders
Marvella Frey
The Conductor
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 20 x 24
Price: $500
I am a painter who is inspired by the beauty and diversity of people, places, nature, animals, and our planet. My current body of work focuses on portraits of women, some well known and others representing a group of people during a specific time. The three paintings I chose for this exhibit reflect women during wartime, past and present. Pretty Nose became a war chief during the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Harriet Tubman worked for the Union Army during the Civil War, leading a raid that liberated more than 700 enslaved people. The painting of a Ukrainian woman represents all the women currently affected by the present day invasion of their county. My style is expressionist influenced and although I work towards a likeness, I use bold colors and mark marking to express emotions related to the subject.
Kimber Jones
Accept Yourself
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20 X 20
Price: $375
Landscape architect Kimber Jones’s painting journey began when she was 52 years old while studying under professional artist Kathy Taylor who taught her that painting fulfills her life purpose. She is known in Phoenix as an abstract expressionist that paints with her hands and prefers to create spontaneously on canvas, as freely as a child. Her art is inspired by life experiences and past challenges. Currently Kimber’s work is exhibited at FOUND:RE Contemporary and she recently celebrated a successful solo show at McDowell Mountain Ranch.
Michael Farmer
The Artificial Heart Sutra
Medium: Mixed Media on Panel
Dimensions: 25 inches by 44 inches by 4 inches
Price: $1800
My current series of artwork focuses on the intersection of society and technology. I use a background collage of printed Wikipedia articles that relate to the theme of the work. I add to that black acrylic paint reminiscent of the screen printing of the 1960’s for a focal point of the work. Then, in a carefully conceived schematic, evocative of a circuit diagram I add gold tape and paint, vacuum tubes, computer punch cards, circuit boards, religious medals, crucifixes, and a variety of symbolic objects that relate to the the specific subject of the individual art work. The motifs that motivate each art work spring from my personal history and tie into larger cultural concerns. My father was a mathematician who was involved in computers and coding before the rise of personal computing in the 1980’s. As a child I was always surrounded and influenced by my father’s obsession with computers, science, and logic. I was raised to have a respect and understanding for these topics, though my interests lay elsewhere. As the years progressed I saw the rise of technology from a new convenience to a pervasive, supremely powerful force in everyday life and the economy. This art series explores my perceptions of the spiritual and economic impact the digital revolution has on humanity. Through these art works I view our emerging technocracy through a critical lens of philosophy and inequality. Artist’s Bio: Michael Farmer has been a primarily self-taught artist for over 25 years. He has exhibited in several venues in Arizona and California including The Central Arts Collective in Tucson, AZ, Warehouse 1005, Herberger Theater, Alwun House Gallery, FOUND:RE Art Hotel, and The Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, AZ, Las Lagunas Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, and Blue Line Arts, in Roseville, CA as well as several online exhibitions. He has won multiple awards through Mesa Community College Gallery. He is in private collections in Phoenix, Austin, New York, Connecticut, and Ireland. His personal interests include Eastern Philosophy and the art of Bonsai. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1999. He was raised in Tempe, Arizona and now lives in Mesa, Arizona where he continues to make art while working towards a teaching certification in art.
Amy Newton-McConnel
Desert Angel 1
Medium: Photograph – gilcee print on canvas
Price: $400
I am an art photographer in Phoenix, Arizona. I have been highly creative since childhood, making art in various mediums. I have always had a camera and an interest in photographing the world around me through traditional photography techniques. In the past three years, I have discovered In Camera Movement (ICM) photography, which utilizes techniques where the camera is intentionally moved during the exposure to create painterly and abstract artistic effects. ICM has sparked my artistic creativity and allows me to create abstract art with my camera. I am inspired by lines and textures, colors and shapes and create art that inspires emotional response. ICM photography inspires me to see, feel and think differently and interpret my surroundings in a new and unexpected way. My goal is to find the extraordinary in the ordinary offering a unique perspective. This particular body of work focuses on the feel, sound and emotional response to musical instruments.
Yellow Roses in Black Vase
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 12 5/8” x 15 5/8”
Price: $225.00
Kim Woods has known since she got her first box of crayons that she was an artist. Her favorite class was always art. After high school she took many hours of art classes at Glendale Community College ranging from drawing to sculpture and had pieces accepted at the campus art show. Kim put her craft on hold when she started a family and later during her career in education. She decided the urge to create was too strong and took a painting class at the Phoenix Center for the Arts and during the Covid pandemic switched to an online oil painting class with Kelli Folsom. She prefers painting in oils and is always looking for ways to improve her art. She has recently explored in depth alla prima paintings of still lifes: creating depth, texture, color and light.
Gathering at Zambia Well
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 20” x 16”
Price: $650.00
“I have a passion for art and I try to paint a story or mood on each canvas that the viewer can appreciate.”
Natalie has been drawing since she was eight years old and began painting as a young adult. She lived overseas and had
four one woman shows in Switzerland and Singapore. She has sold oil paintings, pastel portraits, and graphite drawings in Hawaii
Singapore, Switzerland, Delaware and Arizona. She had her image of “Barrel Racer” chosen by the Scottsdale Gallery Assoc. which
was on display for one year in down town Scottsdale. She continues to paint daily in her Scottsdale studio where she displays her
art. She is a juried member of the Sonoran Arts League, the Arizona Artists Guild and the Arizona Art Alliance. She is also a member
of the American Women Artists League.
Tom Sharp
A Time for Reflection
Medium: Pastel
Size: 9″ x 12″
Price: $700
Pastel, Oil, Pen & Ink and Prismacolor Pencils. Landscapes and Portraits
Jean Rossman
Getting There
Medium: watercolor
Size: 13″ x 16″
Price: $ 375
There is a Kindergarten photo with a little girl standing at the easel, brush in hand, in the back of the class picture. Always drawing and painting for fun until completing a BFA in mid-life, then a career in computer graphics and now again, art for fun Artist Statement As I create, I look for imagery that invites the viewer to participate. Although I may indicate a narrative, I often omit the obvious, add some whimsy or abstract some of the more realistic shapes. This is in hope that each viewer will perceive a personal interpretation.
Maria Karlosak
Still beautiful-3
Medium: Acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 16″ x 24″
Price: 450
Maria Karlosak is a visual Artist,she combines figures, realism and abstract with an intense, everything-all-at-once style. Maria loves to paint landscapes and cityscapes. She saw a great potential in this form of painting and expression despite the difficulty of this style. She puts to canvas the sights that capture her interest, as well as the beauty of nature she sees during her travels .Color, Texture and Composition are important elements in her work. Maria is a A member of Juried Artists in AAG. She has received several awards for her art. The Artist Says: I love painting Abstract. When I am painting, I don’t plan what I am going to put on canvas. I let my feelings and imagination drive my brush or palette knife. I paint many different kind of subjects, but the landscape is always my favorite .
Velvet Tetrault
Rufus Hummingbird and Roses
Medium: acrylic
Dimensions: 18″ x 22″
Price: $1280
I have been painting for 45 years. By age 17, I had realized that I could express myself in a painting when I felt different from other people, misunderstood, or just bold over by the beauty in nature. Seeing the results of my thoughts on canvas comforted me. So I embarked on a journey of artistic mastery, which continues to this day. I always loved colors. I started out making images on linoleum and printing them. By the time I was 19, I was enthralled with realistic Science Fiction art. My favorite artists were Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, and Salvador Dali. My first paintings on canvas were people from SF stories that I wrote. I liked the fact that the images were out of my imagination. Besides taking college art courses in my 20’s, I amassed and studied a library of hundreds of art books and instructional videos; took many workshops taught by established artists, and attended conventions where I learned a host of artistic techniques and styles. I painted an eclectic assortment of subjects: florals, landscapes, still life, birds, animals, fantasy, and people. In 1998, I became acquainted with decorative and tole painting. I spent several years going to workshops and studying videotapes of different artists. When I felt that I had gone as far as I could with the decorative painting of that era, I began experimenting with mixed media. I also studied Art History and Anatomy for Artists for 2 years. Subsequently, I taught anatomy to artists at WHAM and Palo Verde Art Club. Eventually, a desire to paint scenes that portray and symbolize subconscious matters led me to an advanced degree in Psychology, which gave me an understanding of human motivation. This eventually enabled me to create paintings that reflected the diverse, but core, nature of personality, thoughts, and emotions so that I could share this comforting knowledge with others. These are paintings with stories and allegories. My artistic goal became to specialize in creating imaginative and introspective paintings; to help my customers decorate their surroundings with art that reflected their inner voice. By 2017, I began painting birds. Then, with florals and scrolls. I studied casual florals and bird painting for three years with David Jansen. I have studied dozens of videos on painting flowers and birds by various artists. While continuing painting those subjects, I also studied painting portraits, especially the color and tones in the highlights and shadows. While I still create a small bird painting occasionally, I focus now on paintings with psychological meaning, such as Allegorical paintings and Fantastical/Fantasy paintings with a message. I have ventured into this realm with a 5-painting series called “DESIRE”. You can find all of my paintings on my website: TetraultArtStudio.com AZOpen Borders
Marvella Frey
Ukraine
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions: 20 x 24
Price: NFS
I am a painter who is inspired by the beauty and diversity of people, places, nature, animals, and our planet. My current body of work focuses on portraits of women, some well known and others representing a group of people during a specific time. The three paintings I chose for this exhibit reflect women during wartime, past and present. Pretty Nose became a war chief during the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Harriet Tubman worked for the Union Army during the Civil War, leading a raid that liberated more than 700 enslaved people. The painting of a Ukrainian woman represents all the women currently affected by the present day invasion of their county. My style is expressionist influenced and although I work towards a likeness, I use bold colors and mark marking to express emotions related to the subject.
Kimber Jones
Searching for Acceptance
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20 X 20
Price: $375
Landscape architect Kimber Jones’s painting journey began when she was 52 years old while studying under professional artist Kathy Taylor who taught her that painting fulfills her life purpose. She is known in Phoenix as an abstract expressionist that paints with her hands and prefers to create spontaneously on canvas, as freely as a child. Her art is inspired by life experiences and past challenges. Currently Kimber’s work is exhibited at FOUND:RE Contemporary and she recently celebrated a successful solo show at McDowell Mountain Ranch.
Michael Farmer
Kilobyte Kabbalah
Medium: Mixed Media on Panel
Dimensions: 24 inches by 24 inches by 5 inches
Price: $900
My current series of artwork focuses on the intersection of society and technology. I use a background collage of printed Wikipedia articles that relate to the theme of the work. I add to that black acrylic paint reminiscent of the screen printing of the 1960’s for a focal point of the work. Then, in a carefully conceived schematic, evocative of a circuit diagram I add gold tape and paint, vacuum tubes, computer punch cards, circuit boards, religious medals, crucifixes, and a variety of symbolic objects that relate to the the specific subject of the individual art work. The motifs that motivate each art work spring from my personal history and tie into larger cultural concerns. My father was a mathematician who was involved in computers and coding before the rise of personal computing in the 1980’s. As a child I was always surrounded and influenced by my father’s obsession with computers, science, and logic. I was raised to have a respect and understanding for these topics, though my interests lay elsewhere. As the years progressed I saw the rise of technology from a new convenience to a pervasive, supremely powerful force in everyday life and the economy. This art series explores my perceptions of the spiritual and economic impact the digital revolution has on humanity. Through these art works I view our emerging technocracy through a critical lens of philosophy and inequality. Artist’s Bio: Michael Farmer has been a primarily self-taught artist for over 25 years. He has exhibited in several venues in Arizona and California including The Central Arts Collective in Tucson, AZ, Warehouse 1005, Herberger Theater, Alwun House Gallery, FOUND:RE Art Hotel, and The Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, AZ, Las Lagunas Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, and Blue Line Arts, in Roseville, CA as well as several online exhibitions. He has won multiple awards through Mesa Community College Gallery. He is in private collections in Phoenix, Austin, New York, Connecticut, and Ireland. His personal interests include Eastern Philosophy and the art of Bonsai. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1999. He was raised in Tempe, Arizona and now lives in Mesa, Arizona where he continues to make art while working towards a teaching certification in art.
Amy Newton-McConnel
Desert Angel 1
Medium: Photograph – gilcee print on canvas
Dimensions: 16.75″ wide, 20.75″ high, 1.5″ deep
Price: $400
I am an art photographer in Phoenix, Arizona. I have been highly creative since childhood, making art in various mediums. I have always had a camera and an interest in photographing the world around me through traditional photography techniques. In the past three years, I have discovered In Camera Movement (ICM) photography, which utilizes techniques where the camera is intentionally moved during the exposure to create painterly and abstract artistic effects. ICM has sparked my artistic creativity and allows me to create abstract art with my camera. I am inspired by lines and textures, colors and shapes and create art that inspires emotional response. ICM photography inspires me to see, feel and think differently and interpret my surroundings in a new and unexpected way. My goal is to find the extraordinary in the ordinary offering a unique perspective. This particular body of work focuses on the feel, sound and emotional response to musical instruments.
Roses in Blue and White Vase
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 15 5/8” x 12 5/8”
Price: $225.00
Kim Woods has known since she got her first box of crayons that she was an artist. Her favorite class was always art. After high school she took many hours of art classes at Glendale Community College ranging from drawing to sculpture and had pieces accepted at the campus art show. Kim put her craft on hold when she started a family and later during her career in education. She decided the urge to create was too strong and took a painting class at the Phoenix Center for the Arts and during the Covid pandemic switched to an online oil painting class with Kelli Folsom. She prefers painting in oils and is always looking for ways to improve her art. She has recently explored in depth alla prima paintings of still lifes: creating depth, texture, color and light.
Sumatra Market Place
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 20” x 16”
Price: $890.00
“I have a passion for art and I try to paint a story or mood on each canvas that the viewer can appreciate.”
Natalie has been drawing since she was eight years old and began painting as a young adult. She lived overseas and had
four one woman shows in Switzerland and Singapore. She has sold oil paintings, pastel portraits, and graphite drawings in Hawaii
Singapore, Switzerland, Delaware and Arizona. She had her image of “Barrel Racer” chosen by the Scottsdale Gallery Assoc. which
was on display for one year in down town Scottsdale. She continues to paint daily in her Scottsdale studio where she displays her
art. She is a juried member of the Sonoran Arts League, the Arizona Artists Guild and the Arizona Art Alliance. She is also a member
of the American Women Artists League.
