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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 14, 2009
Contact: Joy Reed Belt
405/842-6336
jreedbelt@joyreedbelt.com
JRB ART AT THE ELMS PRESENTS BEST OF THE WEST IN JUNE
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – JRB Art at The Elms will pay homage to the Prix de West with an exhibition featuring artwork with a western flair by several noted artists during the month of June. Best of the West, which includes paintings by Sherrie McGraw, Billy Schenck, Glenn Dean, Logan Hagege, Dorothy Lampl, Carla Anglada, Karl Brenner and Sam Echols; ceramics by Tammie Lane; carved wood sculptures and paintings by Jim Wagner, will open with a reception on Friday, June 5, 2009, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m., at JRB Art at The Elms during the monthly Gallery Walk in Oklahoma City’s Paseo Arts District. The exhibit runs through June 27th.
“The artists who were selected for this exhibit were chosen for their excellence and diversity of styles,” said JRB Art at The Elms Director, Joy Reed Belt. “From precisely articulated still lifes to primitive landscapes, photographs, ceramics, and wooden carvings, this show features highly individualized interpretations of the great southwest,” added Belt.
Sherrie McGraw was blessed with parents who encouraged her artistic interests, she left home to study at the Art Students League of New York at age 23. McGraw eventually taught at the League and has become one of America’s foremost artists and teachers. Her work has received many awards from prestigious New York art organizations and has been shown in major institutions throughout the nation, including the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Gilcrease Museum, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and the Tucson Museum. McGraw lectures and demonstrates for art institutions such as the Portrait Society, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Brigham Young University, the Art Students League of New York, the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and the Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia. McGraw’s successful new book, The Language of Drawing, is garnering worldwide attention from its new home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art bookstore. She is presently writing a book on painting. McGraw lives and works in Taos, New Mexico.
Billy Schenck has been known internationally for the past 33 years as one of the originators of the contemporary "Pop" western movement, and an American painter who incorporates techniques from Photo-Realism with a Pop Art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Born in the Midwest in 1947, Schenck received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1969 at the Kansas City Art Institute. After graduation, he moved to the Soho district of New York City and became associated with a group of Photo-Realists and attained gallery representation both in Europe and in New York City. His first solo show in New York sold out when he was 24 years old. Over the next several years, Schenck had four solo shows in New York City, a successful solo show in Brussels, Belgium and was also included in many group shows in France, Italy and Switzerland. In the mid-1970's, Schenck to move to the West, splitting his time between Arizona and Wyoming. Since 1971, Schenck has had 72 solo shows, 77 group shows and is included in 31 museum collections worldwide. His work is found in major collections throughout the world and has been the subject of four museum retrospectives, the most recent titled The West As It Never Was, at the Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art.
Glenn Dean gained recognition in the art world at a relatively young age. At just 31, he has appeared in several national magazines including Southwest Art, Art of the West, and American Artist. Dean has won a number of awards, including the first ever “Emerging Artist Award” presented by Art and Antiques magazine. He is also the recipient of the Grand Prize and Artists Choice awards at the inaugural Tucson/Sonoran Desert Museum Invitational. A self-taught artist, Dean paints outside, on-location throughout the Southwest, dividing his time between deserts, mountains, and coastal subjects. “To me, the West is home. There are so many places to paint, it would take a thousand lifetimes to paint them all.” Dean feels that time in the field and in the studio are equally important. In his studio, he develops larger compositions worked from field studies and other references. In 2006, Glenn relocated from his native state of California to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Logan Hagege is a talented young artist who excels in depicting the figure and landscapes. Serious study in art started for Hagege after high school, when early interest in animation sent him to Associates in Art (now The Art Academy of L.A.). His interest quickly moved from animation to the fine arts while attending life drawing classes, and later the Academy`s Advanced Masters Program. He has drawn inspiration for his subjects from his native Southern California as well as by traveling to view various landscapes and masterworks in places as diverse as New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and the countryside of France and England. A member of The Society of American Artists, Hagege finds encouragement and guidance in masters of the past such as Gustav Klimt, N.C. Wyeth, T.W. Dewing and Maynard Dixon.
Dorothy Lampl is a representational painter dedicated to the interpretation of light, color, and her vision of reality. She feels that painting is a very personal and intimate statement of what the artist sees. An admirer of John Singer Sargent and William Merrit Chase, Lampl studied extensively with the late Richard V. Goetz, a well-known impressionist still life and landscape painter who taught at the Art Students League in New York. Originally from Oklahoma, Lampl lives and works in Taos, New Mexico.
Tammie Lane is a watercolor painter and potter who lives in Aspen, Colorado. With a BFA in commercial art from Phillips University in Oklahoma, Lane worked as an illustrator for Hallmark Cards, Inc. in Kansas City, MO for two years following graduation. She then worked with many national clients over the years to produce work for children’s books, magazines, and advertising. Her work is included in the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, The Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri and the Western Colorado Center for the Arts.
Born in Las Vegas, Nevada, Carla Anglada received her BFA Degree from Oklahoma City University. She completed graduate work at the University of New Mexico and went on to study at the Taos Institute of Fine Arts and the Fechin Institute. She has also studied with several noted artists including David Leffel, Michelle Cooke, Sherrie McGraw, Gregg Kruetz, Luis Tedesco and forensic artist Betty Pat Gatliff. Anglada’s work can be found in private collections in Washington, D.C., Florida, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and New York.
Born and raised in California, Karl Brenner was first introduced to fine art painting in Chicago. His parents took him to The Art Institute for his eleventh birthday where he saw an exhibit of the British masters Constable, Turner, and Hogarth. He took all the art courses offered in high school and college, and was tempted to try for a career in fine art, but instead chose a career in medicine and surgery. Brenner’s love for painting never left him, and he returned to it via a Ted Goershner painting workshop in 1987. He has continued his art studies with several Prix de West artists including Jim Wilcox and Kurt Walters. Since retirement from general surgery in North Carolina to the four corners region, plein air painting has absorbed most of his time. In 2007, Brenner’s painting, Willow Thickets, Lightner Creek was awarded first place in the oil and acrylics category of the 47th Annual Artists Alpine Holiday Art Show in Ouray, Colorado.
Painter and sculptor Jim Wagner is famed for his ecstatic and often off-beat portrayals of northern New Mexico landscape and life. He has produced literally thousands of works in a variety of formats – painting, drawing, jewelry furniture and clay. The 1993 book written about him, Jim Wagner, Taos: An American Artist has a registry of over 2,323 pieces of his art. Wagner has lived and worked in Taos, Mexico for over thirty years.
JRB Art at The Elms presents a diverse roster of emerging, established, and internationally exhibited artists who create in a wide range of media including: paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, fine crafts, functional objects, fiber art and photographs. This award winning gallery in Oklahoma City’s Paseo Arts District with its historic 4,500 square foot exhibition space, changes its exhibits monthly in a gracious environment that fosters a dialogue between the arts and the larger community while providing quality art for first time buyers as well as individual, corporate and museum collections.
JRB Art at The Elms, the former home of Nan Sheets which was built in 1920, is located at 2810 North Walker and is open Monday through Saturday, 10-6, and Sunday 1-5. Phone: (405) 528-6336, website: www.jrbartgallery.com, e-mail: jrb@coxinet.net.
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