Transitions: Group Show and Holiday Party

Marietta Patricia Leis
Ascension 7, 20” round, Oil on Birch wood

Transitions: A group show inspired by the season of change. As we enter winter, we are surrounded by change: in time, in weather, in wardrobe, emotional and social obligations. The works in Transitions examine how the season’s changes present a unique opportunity to meditate in an area of our lives or physical experience in preparation of a new year. For many artists this exhibit represents a turning point in their work and a homage towards that transition.

Exhibiting: December 14 - February 1, 2019

Opening Reception & Holiday Bash:

Saturday: December 14, 5-8pm

Artist Talk and Brunch:
Saturday: February 15, 11:00am-1:00pm

Featured artists:

Alan Paine Radebaugh, Angela Berkson, Ann Dunbar, Barbel Helmert, Brooke Steiger, Bonnie Putnam Verardo, Cindy Dominguez, David Antresian, Debi Dodge, Jo Antresian, Karen Yank, Karsten Creightney, Lin Johnson, Linda Mae Tratechaud, Margaret Fitzgerald, Marietta Patricia Leis, Mary Ann Strandell, Mary Zaremba, Robert M. Ellis, Scottie Sheehan, Stephanie Lerma, Susan Zimmerman, Virginia Baiche

Angela Berkson, Parallel Play 3, 20" x 22.5,"
Encaustic on panel, framed

Margaret Fitzgerald, Scramble,  50" x 45," Oil, oil stick on canvas, 2019

Barbel Helmert, Untitled from the "Ranch Series", 36" x 28," Giclee Print

Susan Zimmerman, Veil, 15" x 15," Encaustic on panel

Mary Zaremba, Underworld , 10" x 15,"
Photography on aluminum plate

Bonnie PutnamVerardo, Stillness of a Watchfull Bird, 12" x 9," Oil on linen panel

Mary Ann Strandell, Conversation Pit, 20" x 13," 3D Lenticular Media

Stephanie Lerma, Approach, 8" x 8," Encaustic on Wood Panel

David Antreasian, Midnight Blue, 11" x 17," Hand-Painted Pigment Print

Alan Paine Radebaugh, NIGHT ONE,  32" x 14," Oil on Cavnas, Triptych

Jo Antreasian, Light in the Night, 11" x 10,"
 Mixed media, Transfer print

Jo Antreasian, Passage of Time, 11" x 10,"
Mixed media, Transfer print

Through the Lives: Ann Dunbar exhibiting in the Design Studio Gallery

Through the Lives: Ann Dunbar

Exhibiting in the Design Studio Gallery, October 14 - December 7, 2019

Opening Recetpion: Friday, October 18: 5-8pm

First Friday's: November 1 & December 6
Brunch & Artist talk: November 9, 11-1:30pm

Through the Lives: New Work by Ann Dunbar

We are all traveling on our own distinct journey. We are interacting upon our environment and others while being acted upon in return. Ann Dunbar is an Albuquerque based artist whose art practice reflects her varied interests in culture,

Ann Dunbar’s work is like an altar to human existence, looking through the lives of many people through the careful layering of images of food, clothing, history, language and cultures. Dunbar is a lifelong traveler and collector of things. She is intrigued with everyday objects that are elevated to important representations of the past. Seemingly ordinary things can create a nostalgic memory unique to each viewer.

Dunbar’s fascination with the memories her materials illicit starts around drawings of her own Tree of Life design. Carefully drawn in pencil and ink, each tree is composed of abstract components, whimsically spiraling and culminating upwards. An occasional spear penetrates a tree, symbolizing the strike of trouble and hardship. Dunbar’s background in fashion and dress design is evident in her work; building onto her drawings with bits of anything. A few of her favorite materials include found objects, vintage textbooks, magazines, foil, and paint. Paper takes on a variety of highly structured forms: rolled, cut, torn, crumpled, altered and reassembled around the trees. The finished sculptural work is protected and honored inside an austere white shadow box with silver frame. 

Rift Valley: Mary Ann Strandell, Exhibiting in the Main Gallery

Transit Tower with Bonita and Goff, 

3D Lenticular, 42” x 32”, 2019

Rift Valley: Mary Ann Strandell

Exhibiting in the Main Gallery 
October 14- December 7, 2019

Opening Reception: Friday, October 18th, 5-8pm
First Friday's: November 1 & December 6
Artist Talk & Brunch: November 9, 11-1:30pm

April Price Project Gallery is pleased to present Mary Ann Strandell: Rift Valley, the third solo exhibition of her work at the gallery. The installation includes new paintings and 3d lenticular works.

Strandell’s “Rift Valley” is inspired by the artists experience of The Rio Grande Rift that denotes the epic time and place of the earth’s shifting plates. Albuquerque is situated in part of the southern basin of the rift. While volcanic eruptions and deposits are part of the rift topography, it was not until 1987 that Strandell trekked into and painted on the volcanic gorge. While standing on volcanic rock, “I realized that I had tapped into a profound energy of place, an alive and ecstatic place,” said Strandell. She has a similar sense near huge urban construction sites, and, strangely, also when she encountered the Apple Store staircase in Chelsea, New York City. Images of these places are part of “Rift Valley” installation. 

Strandell’s exhibition engages intervals of place that intersect physical and virtual space through her multiple visits there. In October she will create an installation that combines her three-fold studio practice as a container of an expanded field from volcanic rock to the glass spiral stair. The Installation will combine her outdoor-studio oils, architecture paintings, and 3D lenticular prints.

The outdoor studio works are painted on site of the upper Rio Grande Gorge. Her architecture paintings depict structures like Bart Prince’s houses that she experienced as a student in Albuquerque and also the Apple Store staircase, located close to her Manhattan studio. In her multidimensional lenticular prints the thematic locations are used as the backdrop, and layered with symbols of cultural, and virtual references. 

These different practices are adapted and exchanged one to the next, in a playful inventive manner. Her brightly colored outdoor studio paintings meld oil paint and pigment bar, wet into wet. She follows up with a dry brush technique that creates a surface hovering between static and motion. Her architecture paintings use the same technique but are sourced from her own photographs and internet finds. The lenticular optics reveal hand drawn butterflies, Hokusai prints, fruit trees, piñon trees, a photographic insert of Pueblo Bonito, among other things. They are activated by the physical movement of the viewer, connoting the sense of moving through the landscape, a rift of terrain.

Red River Gorge with Taos Mountains, oil painting, 30" x 40”, 2018

Mary Ann Strandell (b. Watertown, SD) studied Psychology at Syracuse University (NY), received her BFA cum laude, at the University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD). She was awarded an Internship as a conservator of ethnology at the W. H. Over Museum, (Vermillion, SD) and a Fellowship from Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, NM). Received her MA and MFA are from the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM).

She has held solo exhibitions at Panorama Art (Cologne, DE); The Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA); The North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks, ND); Michael Steinberg Fine Arts (New York, NY); Deborah Colton Fine Arts (Houston, TX); Byron C. Cohen Gallery (Kansas City, MO); and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas CIty, MO). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including at De Weiger Museum (Deurne, Netherlands); FIAC (Paris, France); The Chelsea Art Museum, (New York, NY); Saint  Louis Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, MO); Transfer Gallery, Minnesota Street Projects (San Francisco, CA) among others. Writing on her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Art Critical, Art Papers, Art Slant, The Kansas City Star, The Albuquerque Tribune, among other publications. Strandell lives and works in the NYC area; she returns annually to New Mexico to work.

https://www.maryannstrandell.com/  Instagram @maryannstrandell

Gallery Talk for Perspectives: Exhibiting Alan Paine Radebaugh and Robert M. Ellis

Gallery Talk and Stroll

Perspectives: Exhibiting August 2 - October 5

Featuring works by Alan Paine Radebaugh & Robert M. Ellis

Thursday, September 26
5:30-7:30pm

Guest Speakers, starting at 6:00pm

• Albuquerque Museum Director, Andrew Connors
• Artist, Alan Paine Radebaugh
• Robert M. Ellis Collection Trustee, Wendy Shannon

Can't join us for this event? Stop by the gallery from 5:00-8:00pm for Frist Fridays.
Open late on September 6 & October 5!

View of the Main Gallery, featuring both Robert M. Ellis and Alan Paine Radebaugh

          An exhibition of contemporary landscapes by Robert M. Ellis on behalf of the Robert M. Ellis Collection Trust and Alan Paine Radebaugh.  Perspectives includes paintings and prints by Ellis and paintings by Radebaugh.

Robert M. Ellis,
Studio Bay with View of Valdez Valley,
Lithograph

                “Perspective” is the filter by which experience binds time and place, creating the impression in which conscious and unconscious emotional value generates memory. “Perspective” as an artistic device is utilized to transfer the memory of three dimensions onto a two-dimensional plane. When exposed to the northern New Mexico landscape of Taos, Ellis admitted he was so awed by the landscape he could not paint it. “Eventually”, Ellis remarked, “the fields became like floorboards—they had that perspective and angle to them.” Like the floorboard receding into a room, Ellis’ two-point perspective landscapes vanish into the corners of geometric canvases and compositions resulting in an architectural approach to landscape painting.  Ellis’ perspective places the audience grounded by the expansive fields while floating in the sky above.

Alan Paine Radebaugh,
Jonson Sixteen, Oil on canvas

              For years as a painter, Alan Paine Radebaugh was challenged by the vastness of landscape. To paint the boldness and hugeness of the mountains and plains of North America, he tightly-framed and intensified his vision of the landscape. He viewed nature in small abstract shapes and painted the geology and flora of the land in fragments.  Overtime, using his familiar brushstrokes, he built these fragments into large abstracted landscapes.  Currently, his landscapes are more representational. Yet, if one views these new paintings up close, one sees that the images are still fragmented and built of Radebaugh’s familiar abstract shapes.  Using one-point perspective and rich painterly surfaces, Radebaugh invites his audience into his landscapes.

Find out more:
RadebaughFineArt.com
RobertMEllis.com

Courtesy Parking available, entrance off 3rd Street & Copper, please inquire with questions

Albuquerque Art Showcase, BOOTH A4

ABQ Art Showcase Location:
Albuquerque Convention Center, Southwest Exhibit Hall

Open hours:
Friday, August 16 from 10am until 6pm $10 admission
Saturday, August 17 from 10am until 5pm $10 admission
Sunday, August 18 from 10am until 5pm Free- includes Local Treasure Reception
Monday, August 19 from 10am until 4pm Free- includes Local Business Brunch

Find out more: https://www.abqartshowcase.org

Robert M. Ellis

Visit our gallery location during the event:

April Price Projects Gallery/ Design Studio NM LLC
201 3rd Street NW, Suite G, Abq. NM 87112

Extended Gallery Hours:
August 16-August 19: 9:30 am-6:30pm daily

Contact: April 505.573.0895  Brianne 505.850.2307

*Looking for parking? We offer courtesy parking for the Hyatt Hotel garage, entrance off 3rd Street and Copper, just stop into our space to validate*

Alan Paine Radebaugh

Our booth, A4 if now set up! Come by and see us.

Our booth will feature works by:

Alan Paine Radebaugh

•  Limited edition giclee prints 
• of original oil paintings (for the first time ever)! 
• Original Oil Paintings 

Robert M. Ellis

• Monoprints
• Lithographs
• Original Oil Paintings

Perspectives: Alan Paine Radebaugh and Robert M. Ellis

Perspectives 

Alan Paine Radebaugh and Robert M. Ellis

Exhibiting August 2 - October 5, 2019

First Friday Opening Reception: August 2, 5-8pm

Check out our booth! Happening during the gallery exhibit:

Albuquerque Art Showcase: August 15-19, 2019

Location: ABQ Convention Center, Southwest Exhibit Hall

First Friday's: September 6 & October 4, 5-8pm

Artist talk: Coming Soon

Alan Paine Radebaugh, King's Cake,  oil on canvas, 50" x 120"

“Perspective” is the filter by which experience binds time and place, creating the impression in which conscious and unconscious emotional value generates memory. “Perspective” as an artistic device is utilized to transfer the memory of three dimensions onto a two-dimensional plane.

Robert M. Ellis, View of Ranchos Church #4, oil on canvas, 78" x 144"

When exposed to the northern New Mexico landscape of Taos, Ellis admitted he was so awed by the landscape he could not paint it. “Eventually”, Ellis remarked, “the fields became like floorboards—they had that perspective and angle to them.” Like the floorboard receding into a room, Ellis’ two-point perspective landscapes vanish into the corners of geometric canvases and compositions resulting in an architectural approach to landscape painting.  Ellis’ perspective places the audience grounded by the expansive fields while floating in the sky above.

For years as a painter, Alan Paine Radebaugh was challenged by the vastness of landscape. To paint the boldness and hugeness of the mountains and plains of North America, he tightly-framed and intensified his vision of the landscape. He viewed nature in small abstract shapes and painted the geology and flora of the land in fragments.  Overtime, using his familiar brushstrokes, he built these fragments into large abstracted landscapes.  Currently, his landscapes are more representational. Yet, if one views these new paintings up close, one sees that the images are still fragmented and built of Radebaugh’s familiar abstract shapes.  Using one-point perspective and rich painterly surfaces, Radebaugh invites his audience into his landscapes.

More about the Artists:

Alan Paine Radebaugh

Robert M. Ellis

Alan Paine Radebaugh, GSL 10, GSL 12, GSL 11, Oil on canvas, 36" x 28"

Constructed Reality

Constructed Reality

Exhibiting May 18 - July 13, 2019

Featuring: Cindy Dominguez, Daniel Peebles, Miguel Gandert, and Mary Zaremba

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 5-8pm
Artist Talk: Friday, June 21, 5-7pm

Cindy Dominguez, Ditz and Dahs 1 

Miguel Gandert, Chicawales, Jesus Maria, Mexico

 In the age of the Selfie, we document our lives, our presence, our image; we are obsessed.  These outstanding photographers have been pursuing a broader photographic image of humanity and cultural concerns for many years through their unique Constructed Realities. However, on many levels, their work, as the selfie, records our presence and relationship with our environment, defining our obsession with human image.

Professor Miguel Gandert is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico.  His recent work explores the contrast between Hispanic life in Spain, Latin America, Old and New Mexico.  Working primarily with black and white photography, his documentaries, installations and photographs form a strong art form and a way of expressing complex cultural relationships.

Daniel Peebles explores issues of self and the individual’s perspective in an isolated and ambiguous world.  His photographs depict individuals within a family but, through his observation, investigate the complicated relations between human beings.  He creates a set within their environment, an impromptu theater production where he explores what makes us human: our frailties, our strengths, our loneliness, our intimacies and our absurdities in the psychological minefield of family.

Daniel Peebles, Subterranean

Mary Zaremba, Silk Series  #1

Cindy Dominguez marries traditional photographic techniques with contemporary digital procedures, printmaking, and sewing to create clean, careful constructs that emphasize design over storytelling.  While adding elements of familiarity to her photographs to create understanding with the viewer, she also hopes her work surprises and confuses.

For this exhibit, Mary Zaremba is exploring a photographic installation that combines printing her images as silk banners.  Her inspiration is drawn from the earliest existing depictions of feminine forms throughout civilization. Her images reflect lane shifts, layering, and masks which contribute to the perceived ambiguity of the seen and unseen.

Cindy Dominguez, Tribute to Alaia 2 

Visit the artists for more information:

Daniel Peebles 

Miguel Gandert

Cindy Dominguez @instagram

Mary Zaremba

Taos Landscape Qi, Plein Air Painting and Poetry, Design Studio Gallery

Reefka Schneider, Confluencia, Watercolor

Taos Landscape Qi    

February 20 - March 1, 2019

Watercolors by Reefka Schneider 

& Poetry by Steven Schneider

Features plein air paintings and 

companion poems exploring

the quiet moments in nature where

we find ourselves.

  

Water Color, Reefka Schneider                                             

“A work of art is like a visual form of prayer.” – Ian Roberts

               The way some people say “Qué Taos” makes one feel like it should rhyme with chaos instead of house. For me this beautiful place has provided a refuge of silence and healing. Qi is life energy, the soul of a place. All my “Taos Landscapes Qi” watercolors are painted en plein air. I work to capture and express the Qi, the inner life, the silence and beauty of a moment in Nature. In this way I share with you the healing energies I experience while painting.

               These original watercolor paintings provide a unique experience of Taos landscape Qi that you can take home with you -- to share as a gift or treasure for yourself.

                                                                                                                        Reefka

          Poetry, Steven Schneider

In writing these “Taos Landscape Qi” poems, I found it to be a creative challenge to move from writing about the figurative artwork Reefka did for our earlier projects to her landscape artwork in Taos. Rather than find my way into the poem through human emotion, I explore new paths into the poem through the gesture of an aspen, spruce tree or mountain in the landscape.

My recent trip to China and their tradition of yiging – “the world of meaning through images” – is an aesthetic that informs these poems. In China the tradition of combining poetry with paintings of mountains, trees and rivers dates as far back as the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644) scroll paintings that so inspired me at the Shanghai museum. These poems deepen and enhance our appreciation of the art,  “add flavour,” much as the Literati paintings known as wenrenhua did in the period of the Ming Dynasty.  

                                                                                                                        Steven

Poetry Reading for Southwest Popular /American Culture Conference. 

Wed. 2/20,12:30 p.m. in the Whyte Room, Hyatt Hotel

Reefka Schneider, The Blessing of the Rain, Watercolor

The Blessing of the Rain

It begins with the darkening of the sky.

Summer afternoons out on the mesa,

The wind picks up.

Whirling dervishes dust devils dance.

Llamas, goats, and burros scurry for shelter.

Then the wind-driven rain

Drenches dust-choked chamiso and sage.

The air dampens and cools.

Now palpable and fresh,

The body feels lighter.

The mind awakens from its torpor.

The rain, the blessing of the monsoon summer rain:

The song of quickening --

So you may see again

The clear light of the high desert

You reach out to and touch.

Steven Schneider

Automatic Dream Theater: Brooke Steiger

automatic dream theater:  Brooke Steiger

February 16 - April 20, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 16, 5-8pm
Artist talk: Friday, March 15, 5-8pm

Extended Gallery Hours:
Friday, March 1, 5-8pm
Friday, April 5, 5-8pm

automatic dream theater by Brooke Steiger is an evolving, multi-media project featuring several small scale, found-object sculptures in the form of insect, animal and hybrid/human characters. These nature-inspired personalities inhabit theatrical sets and installations. Each serve as muse in a variety of other media: photographs, drawings, paintings, prints and books. Meant to delight the eye, engage the intellect, and cultivate a sense of wonder. This narrative work is a synthesis of observations gathered through the filter of education and travel.
automatic dream theater  will be an immersive visit into Steiger's studio and the world she has built for her characters, which will be transplanted into the main gallery.

Follow Brooke Steiger on Instagram @steiger.brooke

Above right /Below, images from Steiger's studio.