Blue Rain Gallery's 2nd Annual Invitational Show

Second Annual Invitational Show June 6 – 21, 2014

Armelle Bouchet O’Neill Selected from our June Group Glass show last year, Armelle Bouchet O’Neill is an artist we have eagerly sought more from and thus, we welcome her back warmly for her second showing at the gallery this year. If topography can be conceived of in modernist sculptural terms, then O’Neill is paving the path for that contemporary marriage with her blown or kilnformed, and cold-worked glass artwork. She creates these contour rich forms as both free-standing sculptures and as wall panels, each executed in a primary palette coupled with undulating, paralleled relief lines that expand and contract over the surface of her elegant shapes.

Armelle Bouchet O’Neill, Kasvu, blown and sand-carved glass, 20" h x 7" w x 7" d, $5,000

Armelle Bouchet O’Neill, Kasvu White, blown and sand-carved glass, 20.5" h x 7" w x 7" d, $5,200

Armelle Bouchet O’Neill, Within the Red Land, fused and sand-carved glass 24" h x 36" w x .38" d, $7,000

Bob Richardson Bob Richardson’s paintings present us with shifting perspectives of our own urban atmosphere: a neighbor sitting in a chair on their front lawn, a man and his dog flopped side-by-side on a bed escaping the heat of summer, or photo-op minded tourists enjoying the views from the top of a double decker bus. This Santa Fe painter finds that the commonplace moments of American popular culture are best explored in compositions filled with bright color and light. It should be obvious through his painterly approach to these subjects that Richardson is also interested in the formal aspects of picture-making, such that he finds a bold simplicity of form is best captured beautifully in heavy swatches of color.

Bob Richardson, Did You Catch That?, oil on canvas, 32 " h x 50" w, $4,700

Bob Richardson, Another Hot Day, oil on linen, 58" h x 48" w, $9,000

Bob Richardson, Two Days Later, oil on canvas, 60" h x 40" w, $8,000

Bob Richardson, Lunch Time, oil on linen Image: 42" h x 42" w; Framed: 43.5" h x 43.5" w, $5,400

Bob Richardson, Oregon Coast, oil on linen Image: 36" h x 48" w; Framed: 37.75" h x 49.75" w, $5,200

Bob Richardson, A Good Book, oil on linen, Image: 30" h x 44" w; Framed: 31.5" h x 45.5" w, $4,500

Bob Richardson, Done Yet?, oil on linen, Image: 42" h x 65" w; Framed: 44" h x 66.75" w, $9,000

Leigh Gusterson The New Mexican landscape comes alive with a vibrancy of color in the paintings of Leigh Gusterson. Living and working out of the greater Taos area for the last two decades, Gusterson primarily paints en plein air and she thrives on the incredible light-filled atmosphere of the Southwest to create her undulating visions of softly rounded mountain tops with echoing curved horizon lines.

Each work offers a bold palette where movement in the composition is found in winding roads, puttering pick-up trucks, swaying trees and stout bushes, and slowly grazing animals meandering among the adjoining irrigated fields.

Leigh Gusterson, Explosion in Orange, acrylic on canvas, 42" h x 48" w, $7,000

Leigh Gusterson, Flicka’s Day Out, acrylic on canvas, 24" h x 24" w, $2,400

Leigh Gusterson, Heart of Rodarte II, acrylic on canvas, 32" h x 18" w, $2,200

Leigh Gusterson, Rio Lucio Six, acrylic on canvas, 22" h x 42" w, $3,200

Leigh Gusterson, Flicka Rides Again, acrylic on canvas, 16" h x 16" w, $1,200

Leigh Gusterson, Long and Winding Road, acrylic on canvas, 48" h x 60" w, $9,750

Leigh Gusterson, Sheep on the Edge, acrylic on canvas, 30" h x 40" w, $4,400

Leigh Gusterson, The Red Gate, acrylic on canvas, 24" h x 28" w, $2,600

Leigh Gusterson, Taos Lightening, acrylic on canvas, 30" h x 40" w, $4,400

Loren Haynes Loren Haynes is a modern New Mexican renaissance man, moving easily and seamlessly through the mediums of film, music, and photography. Each medium empowers Haynes to build engaging storylines and to compose visual narratives out of deep shadows and bright highlights. His abstract photographs, both in black/white and color, to which he refers to as “Altered States: The Beginning and The Now,” will be featured in this show. The work, when taken collectively, invites the viewer to join in on Haynes’ personal aesthetic journey.

Loren Haynes, Artistic Incubation, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolp Laub, edition of 5 Image: 42" h x 42" w; Framed: 47.5" h x 47.5" w, $5,400

Loren Haynes, Jelly Blue, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolph Laub, edition of 5 Image: 36" h x 36" w; Framed: 41" h x 41" w, $4,700

Loren Haynes, The Circle of Life, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolph Laub, edition of 5 Image: 30" h x 40" w; Framed: 33.5" h x 43.5" w, $4,700

Loren Haynes, Evolution, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolph Laub, edition of 5 Image: 36" h x 36" w; Framed 41.5" h x 41.5" w, $4,700

Loren Haynes, Jelly Roll Vortation, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolph Laub, edition of 5 Image: 40" h x 40" w; Framed: 44" h x 44" w, $5,200

Loren Haynes, Marching Ants, Signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, edition of 5, Image: 36" h x 46" w; Framed: 40" h x 50"w, $5,400

Loren Haynes, The Cloud of Hope, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolph Laub, edition of 5, Image: 36" h x 36" w; Framed: 40" h x 40" w, $4,700

Loren Haynes, The Ocean Walks, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolph Laub, edition of 5 Image: 44" h x 58" w; Framed: 47" h x 60" w, $6,500

Loren Haynes, Migration, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolph Laub, edition of 5 Image: 36" h x 36" w; Framed 39" h x 39" w, $4,700

Loren Haynes, Under the Morning Sky, signed and numbered, limited edition prints on paper mounted on Dibond aluminum, framed by Randolph Laub, edition of 5 Image: 42" h x 42" w; Framed: 46.5" h x 46.5" w, $5,400

White Buffalo From the sacred hills in South Dakota to the oft-sacrilegious and neon-light filled streets of Los Angeles, Lakota painter Renelle White Buffalo brings a distinctive contemporary, cross-cultural dialogue to her painted canvases.

With her confident and expressive use of the medium, White Buffalo intensifies the stereotypical icons of American indigenous cultures, like feathers and headdresses, with newly abstracted sensibilities. Her compositions often feature open, negative spaces where lines penetrate and draw the eye up or down to areas of frenetically built up brushstrokes of pure color. In harnessing the power of these often culturally appropriated objects, White Buffalo defies their commonality and seemingly mundane existence in American popular culture and re-imbues them with a life and vitality that speaks of a distinctly modern voice.

White Buffalo, Grand Opening, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 36" h x 36" w, $2,500

White Buffalo, Lined Red, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 30" h x 27" w, $1,600 White Buffalo, Iktomi in the Rain, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 30" h x 24" w, $1,600

White Buffalo, Regalia, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 60" h x 48" w, $6,500 White Buffalo, Moon, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 48" h x 48" w, $5,000

White Buffalo Traditional Tendencies Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 40" h x 50" w $4,000

Lorenzo Chavez Lorenzo Chavez, one of our invitational artists from last year, returns once again with a new batch of oil and pastel landscapes that continues to build on his successful debut. His soft handling of the medium, especially evident in his pastel works, brings a clear sincerity and emotional component to his masterful renderings of charming scenes of adobe homes, winding dirt roads, and arroyos lined with blooming Chamisa.

Lorenzo Chavez, Vermejo River, oil on canvas, 18" h x 24" w, $3,800

Lorenzo Chavez, Arroyo Seco Winter, oil on canvas, 16" h x 20" w, $2,950

Lorenzo Chavez, Nuestra Senora De La Luz, oil on canvas, 16" h x 20" w, $2,950

Lorenzo Chavez, Autumn Rabbit Brush, pastel on paper, 14" h x 18" w, $2,350

Lorenzo Chavez, Camino de Arroyo Hondo, oil on canvas, 16" h x 20" w, $2,900

Lorenzo Chavez Chamisa of the West Oil on canvas, 20" h x 30" w $5,500

Lorenzo Chavez, Cottonwood and Chamisa, pastel on paper, 10" h x 8" w, $1,300

Lorenzo Chavez, Arroyo Bajada Hill New Mexico, oil on canvas, 12" h x 16" w, $2,150

Thomas Hucker Thomas Hucker makes his debut in Santa Fe as a welcomed addition to the invitational show roster, especially since his furniture will be the first of its kind to be shown and offered at our gallery. He is a unique artist-designer in that he also fabricates his own work—not many designers can claim that fact. Hucker has extensive training in traditional European and Asian furniture traditions, yet his own artistic sensibility moves these aesthetics into a decidedly contemporary realm. His innovative and ideological concepts usually precede the design work for a piece of furniture, such that, the contextual placement of that work in a projected room is among the driving forces behind their form and function. On this note he relays, “A piece of furniture's composition, proportions, and finishes must relate to its surroundings as furniture does not exist alone.�

(with lid) Thomas Hucker, Curved Box, Northwestern Yew and Japanese paper, 3.5" h x 21" w x 10" d, $4,100

Thomas Hucker, Jewelry Box, Macassar ebony veneered, Swiss pearwood drawers, and leather bottoms, 6.5" h x 19.5" w x 12"d, $5,300

Thomas Hucker, Rosewood Box, East Indian rosewood and split oak, ebonised, 4.5" h x 24" w x 9" d, $2,900 (shown with lid offset to display inside of box)

Andrea Peterson Andrea Peterson, a painter from Arizona, is our second inaugural invitational artist from last year who we are pleased to show once again this year. With her youthful gusto for art and life, Peterson arrives to Santa Fe with her most recent paintings in oil on canvas. Peterson continues to expand her unique voice and vision through figural compositions that feature shallow dimensional space that is then filled with patterning and playful brushstrokes that emphasize the surface of the painting.

Andrea Peterson, Dreamcatchers, mixed media and resin on panel, 24" h x 24" w, $1,150

Andrea Peterson, The Rider, oil on canvas, 50" h x 40" w, $3,800 Andrea Peterson, Many Moons, collage, acrylic, and resin on panel, 36" h x 36" w, $2,200

Andrea Peterson, Winds of Chang'e, acrylic on canvas, 30" h x 24" w, $1,650 Andrea Peterson, Three Wishes, collage, acrylic, and resin on panel, 40" h x 40" w, $2,700

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