Unsettled Gallery and Studio

We're opening! Looking forward to welcoming old friends and new friends to our first exhibit, post COVID.

NEXUS - Louis Ocepek New Work

Hesitant to venture out? Call or text for an appointment during the run of the exhibit

We're unleashing landscapes @ Unsettled Gallery for the January 5th Ramble, official hours 5 to 8 PM. Exhibit Open hours begin @ 3 PM for those wanting to visit the exhibit early!

Las Cruces 1st Friday Ramble Friday, December 1, 2017 features Jeri Desrochers' Transitions and new, smaller works for Holiday Shopping opportunities . . .

Reminder: 1st Friday Ramble @ Unsettled Gallery with new work from Las Cruces artist, Jeri Desrochers.

Last Chance: Barelo & Ocepek "A Chamber Of Curiosities; Jeri Desrochers opens "Transitions" during the Ramble, Friday 11/3.

Barela and Ocepek "Chamber of Curiosities closes soon . . .

We can't make it happen without you!

Visit the gallery, enjoy the exhibit, enter our raffle. We can't make art happen without you! Note: click or scroll to end of image . . .

Please join us for our September event . . . Without you, we can't make it happen!

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Our June 17th Roy van der Aa's "Way Of Working" Demo
& Raffle Of A Limited Edition Pochoir Print

Louis Ocepek and Joe Barela show their fine art prints and talk about all things related to fine art printmaking: tools, techniques and materials! Amazing!

Refresh and rebalance @ Unsettled Gallery with Art, Elvis, Winged Women and a drawing for a Gift Card from Patina Home (Las Cruces).

Rubin Center - CArtography

Recently the gallery was asked to participate in the Cartography Exhibit at the Stanley & Gerald Rubin Center on the campus of the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP). Here is a link to the center's website where videos of many of the participating galleries have been posted: http://rubin.utep.edu/index.php/current1/114. The videos are also being posted on Facebook.

The objective of the exhibit is to call attention to the breadth and depth of contemporary art in our borderland region. Kerry A. Doyle, Director of the Rubin Center, plans to continue this initial conversation through additional initiatives and collaborations as a way to grow awareness of contemporary art throughout our area.

P.S. (Please excuse my "shameless" request to like Unsettled Gallery . . . as well as the other featured galleries!)😊

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For the inside scoop about how artists create, join us on Saturday, March 18 @1:30. Click on the image below to see Nolan Winkler's art!

Join us on Saturday, March 11 @ 1:30 PM. Susan Reynolds talks about her minimalistic artwork!

Our next exhibit, "Some Things . . .", includes 5 figurative works on paper by Australian artist, Christine Turner, including "Little Dancer 2, shown here. The figurative images are both subtle and bold. Subtle driven by the palette; bold through the artist's skill in revealing the figure who reaches out to connect with the viewer.

C.C. Cunningham will be in the gallery Saturday, February 4 (1:30 - 3:30 PM) to answer questions about the work in her exhibit, "Marking Time Making Marks." The exhibit consists of more than 60 artworks created over a 10 month period. The exhibit closes Saturday, February 4.

The Delacroix Masterpiece That Unites Picasso, Lichtenstein, and José Dávila

Do I have some kind of reputation for posting l-o-o-o-o-o-n-g articles? This one gives me real street cred. It is a long, but an informative and well-written article about the current Jose Dávila exhibit "Femme d’Alger" a series of 13 works inspired by Roy Lichtenstein's "Femme d'Alger" (Pop; 1 artwork) which was an interpretation of Picasso's "Femme d’Alger" (Cubism; series of 15 works) -- that in turn was inspired by the Delacroix Femme d’Alger, (French Romanticism; 2 works, the first version completed in 1834 and the second between 1847 and ’49). Dávila series incorporates a technique he began developing in 2008. Using photographs, he cuts out elements of a fully developed work and continues until only an outline remains. For a viewer, you can often see overlooked elements and perspectives, when comparing the excised to the whole, leading to a better understanding and appreciation of all works. The author of the article, Abigail Cain, explains and demonstrates with images, the inspiration trail and the effect of Dávila's technique as his excises progress.

artsy.net Delacroix’s ‘Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement’ (1834) has inspired Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, and now, Jose Dávila.

Jacklyn St. Aubyn's exhibit "Petit Fours" opens Saturday, October 8 (tomorrow) with a reception from 4 to 6 PM. The work consists largely of her small (4 x 4) "jewels". Each color selected for use in one her compositions enhances its companions and presents an artwork that is truly a feast for viewers' eyes. Prepare to be wowed.

Jacklyn St. Aubyn returns to Las Cruces for her exhibit "Petit Fours" opening with a reception on Saturday, October 8; 4 to 6 PM. This exhibit features smaller works. Regardless of size, each piece St. Aubyn creates is masterfully composed and meticulously painted.

Last Chance: Visit with the artists from 2 to 4 PM. "Cole & Dorn: We Should Have Told You This Before" closes Saturday, October 1 at 4 PM.

5 Japanese Ceramicists Who Are Living National Treasures

Attention: Jeanne Bennett Rundell! More about Japanese ceramicists; and gorgeous, gorgeous photos of their work. Incentive to visit the Las Cruces Museum of Art exhibit "Nature, Tradition, and Innovation: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfuehrer Collection".

artsy.net For most, the word “treasure” conjures images of shiny pirate b***y or age-old cultural artifacts, propped on museum pedestals. But in Japan, the term evokes different associations. Since 1950, when the Japanese government established the Cultural Properties Protection Law, the moniker “Living Natio...

We're showing our age by using this lingo, but the opening reception for the exhibit Cole & Dorn is going to be a "way cool happening!"

Here is an image of artwork included in Rie Palkovic's exhibit "Between Shadow and Space . . ." The artworks, for the most part, utilize a darker palette with lighter accents to call attention to different areas of the image. Palkovic's skill in using her palette results in a bold composition that works as a focal point on your wall. And in this post, we've included advance notice of the exhibit that will hang in the gallery from September 10 through October 1. The exhibit features the work of Tauna Cole (Tauna M. Cole-Dorn) and Raul Dorn. Mark your calendars to "save the date."

Artist of the Week: Rie Palkovic

S. Derrickson Moore, Las Cruces Sun News, has featured Rie Palkoviic as artist-of-the-week. Palkovic's exhibit of her artwork opens at Unsettled Gallery on Saturday, August 13; 5 to 7 PM. Click the link for more images and information about Palkovic and her art.

http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/life/sunlife/2016/08/10/artist-week-rie-palkovic/88290992/

lcsun-news.com Pie Palkovic brings unique, powerful perspectives to her work

Please join us on Saturday, August 13 to celebrate the opening of Rie Palkovic's exhibit Between Shadow And Space . . . and the resumption of normal gallery hours after our "summer break". Palkovic received her MFA degree from New Mexico State University. She is an art instructor and and administrator at the Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, Washington.

Up Close, Artist Chuck Close Seems to Be Crumbling; From Far Away, His Work Is As Sharp As Ever

Other sources have been posting about this article on FB. The full-length article can be found on the New York Times website. Possibly it was written for the NYT Sunday magazine, though I find it strange that it would go up on the website so soon. The full article is well worth reading. Wil Hylton, a long-time friend and art writer, covers--in summary--Close's body of work tracing the connections between one period of investigation to the next. At the same time he has, for the most part, sensitively written about Close's early years and his declining health and how this current work, as Close faces increasingly significant health-related issues, is most probably his very best. On the NYT website, the resolution of the image below is so much higher and thus resoundingly powerful. Definitely worth the time to read in full.

July 13, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Wil Hylton

artmarketmonitor.com Wil Hylton has a detailed and very intimate profile of Chuck Close in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine as he enters a strange—and troubling to his family—new phase of his life and career…

The Heroic Art of Agnes Martin

nybooks.com Martin was interested not in discord but in harmony. While Jackson Po***ck said he was nature, Martin strove to represent how nature made her feel or should make us feel—humble, free. Nature was to her what it was to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “transparent eye” in his transcendentalist masterpiece, “Natu...

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THE "GOOD NEWS" DEPARTMENT
Images: "Persimmons" © Amy Hosa; "Lanterman's Falls" © Flo Hosa Dougherty

Flo Hosa Dougherty and daughter, Amy Hosa, are scheduled to exhibit their artwork at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio during the months of June, July and August 2016. Amy Hosa’s watercolor, “Persimmons”, was accepted in the Butler’s 80th Annual Midyear Juried Show, a national competition. Flo Hosa Dougherty’s retrospective work consisting of 46 paintings will hang in her exhibit, “A Lifetime of Creativity”.

The Annual Midyear Juried Show opens Sunday, June 26 with an opening reception from 1 to 3 PM. The exhibit continues through August 28. Flo Hosa Dougherty’s exhibit opens Sunday, July 10th. A reception follows on Sunday, July 17 also from 1 to 3 PM. The exhibit closes on August 28th.

The mother-daughter team exhibited their work at Unsettled Gallery during May 2014 in “Desert & Coast: Where Mother & Daughter Draw The Line.”

If you find yourself near the Midwest, plan a side trip to Youngstown, Ohio and cheer on our accomplished hometown artists.

For more information about these forthcoming exhibits at the Butler Institute of American Art, visit their website, www.butlerart.com or their page, www.facebook.com/butlerartmuseum/.

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The seven ages of an artist

This post came to my attention today from a post by Las Cruces artist Jacklyn St Aubyn. The article by Laura Cu***ng summarizes the career paths of many famous artists focusing on identifying when, it is generally agreed, their most recognized (i.e., they achieved gallery and collector recognition) period occurred. The article mentions several artists who were recognized even though their lives were foreshortened. Following the article--and not to be missed--are interviews with several artists (not only those widely known) and their thoughts about how they deal with being "true" to their art versus being "recognized" by the public. Each is a very thoughtful commentary. I've read as many as time permitted today, but will be returning to the article and interviews many times. CSB

theguardian.com The creative career seldom has a conventional trajectory. We asked seven leading artists aged 24 to 80 what they haved learned from a life in art

Join us for what is sure to be an informative artist's painting demo on Saturday, May 21 from 1 to 3 PM. Megan Lemcke, one of the artists featured in the Black Range Artists' Exhibit, "Visions Of The Black Range", will demonstrate and talk about her painting process. Sadly, Hobbette, her studio muse, will not be able to join us. The image below summarizes Megan's painting practice.

An example of Joan Mitchell's art, mentioned in another post on the gallery's page. Why does it seem that when you are thinking of one thing, Joan Mitchell's work, for example, suddenly you encounter it or a close relationship everywhere?

This post was shared by Jeanne Bennett Rundell, who is the best art curator.

Joan Mitchell (American, 1926-1992): Bracket, 1989. Oil on canvas (triptych), 102-1/2 x 181-3/4 inches (260.35 x 461.35 cm). The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. © Estate of Joan Mitchell. Photo: Ian Reeves. © This artwork may be protected by copyright. It is posted on the site in accordance with fair use principles.

Exhibition:
"Approaching American Abstraction"
The Fisher Collection
May 14, 2016 – ongoing
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

'Joan Mitchell is a painter who hates esthetic labels. She agrees with Harry Holtzman that “the hardening of the categories causes art disease.” She finds particularly distasteful moral insinuations concerning “good” versus “bad” criteria, and insists that “there is no one way to paint; there is no single answer.” ' (Irving Sandler, © Artnews LLC.)
Read more: http://bitly.com/1FOCriW

Of Interest (Review): http://nyti.ms/27yUpn5

Join us, please, for this exhibit reception (4-6 pm), featuring a variety of media and styles. An earlier painting demo is scheduled for 1-3 pm. Both on Saturday, May 14. A second painting demo happens on Saturday, May 21 (1- 3 PM).