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PREVIEWS
Left: Jack Dunn, The Mighty Rio Grande, oil on canvas, 16 x 20"
Color and Rhythm—Jack Dunn Acosta Strong Fine Art 640 Canyon acostastrong.com May 20–June 1 Reception May 24, 5–7 pm
Jack Dunn took an unusual path to becoming a painter; he began with an engineering degree from West Point. A military career took him to Italy, where he discovered painting, although the armed forces and a subsequent corporate career kept him from pursuing art seriously. A few decades later, he now paints full-time. Dunn paints landscapes and the occasional still life, and he considers himself a fauvist. Self-taught, he lists Kandinsky, O’Keeffe, and Marsden Hartley as his main influences. “I have always been inspired by the hard rarified light, the geometric landscape formations and the vibrant colors of the American Southwest,” he says.—Lisa J. Van Sickle
Rebecca Haines: Color Me Curious Pippin Contemporary 409 Canyon pippincontemporary.com May 22–June 5 Reception May 24, 5–7 pm
Right: Barbara Meikle, Pop Up, oil on canvas, 16 x 12"
My Lucky 13 Barbara Meikle Fine Art 236 Delgado meiklefineart.com May 24–June 24 Reception May 24, 5–8 pm
Barbara Meikle celebrates her gallery’s 13th anniversary with her annual solo show. This year, she presents new bronze sculpture and paintings, featuring the horses, donkeys, and landscapes she loves to portray. Join Meikle for the Canyon Road sculpture and garden tour and celebrate her 13 years of supporting groups that rescue and care for animals.—LVS
Rebecca Haines unveils new abstracted paintings, showing her artistic evolution while continuing to express her profound interest in animal portraiture. Realistic eyes ground her paintings as Above: Rebecca Haines, Here in the Looking, the figures surrounding oil on panel, 18 x 18" them becoming increasingly abstract. “Sometimes the less descriptive information that’s present, the more potent is the being that comes through,” she says. Haines was born in Wyoming, and she worked as a painter and a gallerist in Colorado and California before making her way to Santa Fe. She thinks of her animal paintings as self-portraits or personal messengers, saying that while her personal ancestry “came from Europe . . . growing up in the West and Southwest gave me a strong connection to Native cultures, which impacted the meaning of my paintings.”—Sarah Eddy
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