Art Issue
Tresa Vorenberg
Above: Tresa Vorenberg, Bird in Flight, 14-kt gold, rubies and diamonds
A small business owner needs many skills, and Tresa Vorenberg has them all. She’s a quick study; while on leave from college she began working for a Kansas City silversmith, and was making all the jewelry and running the business within six months. People wanted gold instead of silver? No problem; she taught herself goldsmithing. In 1981, a family illness brought Vorenberg back to her native New Mexico. She opened a store on Canyon Road the following year, and it’s now a mainstay. Vorenberg’s shop carries the work of 35 other jewelers, but she mainly makes custom pieces, ensuring perfect fit and design. She thrives on the interaction with clients—the third generation of one family now comes to her. She says, “I think I have a really happy life. I love what I do.”—LVS Tresa Vorenberg, tvgoldsmiths.com
Paul Sarkisian Born in 1928, Paul Sarkisian has had many careers as a painter. Starting with a brief stint painting abstracts, he began a series of photorealistic, airbrushed nudes, did a number of lifesize paintings of the façades of houses and storefronts, dove deeper into realism with a series of trompe l’oeil images in the 1980s, and then arrived full circle back at non-representational painting. Sarkisian was honored with a 2005 retrospective at SITE Santa Fe and currently shows at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art. His most recent paintings are done with industrial resins and automotive paints, sometimes on irregularly shaped substrates, exploring color, depth, and surface. Sarkisian’s paintings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Germany’s Aachen Museum of Art.—LVS Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, charlottejackson.com
Above: Paul Sarkisian, Untitled (#6), polymer resin and mixed media on wood, 21 x 14" 58
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june/july 2017