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Gallup Sun VOL 10 | ISSUE 471
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April 5, 2024
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Take an abstract journey at ART123
GALLERY SHOW HIGHTLIGHTS SARGENT’S WORK By Molly Ann Howell Managing Editor
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rom landscapes to portraits, Be Sargent has experimented with a variety of formats throughout her decades-long career as an artist, but for her upcoming show at the ART123 Gallery, which is located at 123 W. Coal Ave., she is focusing on the abstract. Sargent grew up drawing horses in her A lbuquerque home. She studied at the Boston Museum School and graduated with a bachelor’s in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduation, she became a graphic designer and installer of corporate art. She started her art career painting landscapes, but she’s also found herself focusing on portraits and even doing some murals. She’s done a couple murals in Somerville, Massachusetts, and she did a mural honoring the Navajo Code Talkers. She ca me home to New Mexico in 1993, and split her t i me bet ween su m mer s i n Massachusetts and winters here. Nowadays, she resides in Pine Hill. The City of Gallup has also commissioned her for a mural project. But these days she has found herself gravitating more toward abstract paintings and the color within them. For her ART123 show, she picked out certain colors and then forces herself to do more than one painting featuring that color. She said she enjoys “making colors do things differently.” Most of the show’s pieces are on the larger size and won’t fit in the average person’s home. The biggest paintings on display are four feet tall and five feet wide. “What I’m hoping is that some businesses would see they’d be great in commercial spaces,” Sargent explained. She said she couldn’t imagine herself doing anything else besides art. “It’s just my life. It’s what I do. I’ve always felt I would be an ‘artist’ from when I was 8,” she said. As for her future, Sargent said she isn’t sure what’s next exactly, although she doesn’t see herself straying far from abstract work. Sargent mentioned that a lot of artists tend to turn to sculptures in their later years, although she doesn’t really see herself doing that. Georgia O’Keefe, who died in 1986 in Santa Fe, began her sculpture work after losing much of her eyesight due to macular degeneration. When asked about the hardest part of being an artist, Sargant said it was her habit of trying to be perfect. “You’re always looking at something to see if you like it, and if you don’t like it, it drives you nuts until you fix it,” she said. Sargent’s work will be featured at ART123 Gallery from April 13 until May 4.
Hiro Cash is. a sophomore at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has a show at the LOOM Indigenious Art Gallery going on until April 30. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Hiro Cash
From painting T-shirts to gallery walls By Molly Ann Howell Managing Editor
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Be Sargent’s artwork will be on display at the ART123 Gallery until May 4. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Be Sargent
iro Cash grew u p d r aw i n g in notebooks, or anything he could get his hands on. In a n i nter v iew w ith the Sun, he said he’s always had a creative mindset and imagination. But it wasn’t until high school that he began profiting off his art. He started selling T-shirts with his art on them to his friends. At first, he was drawing the images on bla nk sh i r ts, but then he tu r ned to screen=printing. This sparked an interest in graphic design. Besides drawing and creating t-shirts for his friends, Cash also spent his time going to art shows and studying the work
of other artists. For Cash, ar t is just a part of life. He incorporates another one of his passions – music – into his paintings on a regular basis. “I’m a mu sic fanatic, I’m really into rock music and high energy, so when I put that on in my studio, I incorporate that same sort of energy into my artwork,” he said. “It’s a high voltage of positive, beautiful, colorful energy that I try to portray in my paintings.” Cash is finishing up h is sophomore year at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he is working on his Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art. His first gallery show i s cu r rent ly
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JASON TOM JOE McKinley County Treasurer For her ART123 show, Be Sargent picked out certain colors and then forced herself to do more than one painting featuring that color. She said she enjoys “making colors do things differently.” Photo Credit: Courtesy of Be Sargent