sagefarm contemporary gallery of fine art
104 dona luz . taos . new mexico 87571 575.751.3733 thursday through sunday / noon - five
email: david@sagefarmart.com
Mary Long-Postal
all pieces encaustic (beeswax) on panel
"Five years ago I began working with wax encaustic, following the suggestion of a Memphis artist/ gallery owner. My work begins with an idea of a color or a feeling. I build the painting intuitively using a mostly pre-planned color scheme and usually include personal symbols, graphic elements, decorative paper and gold leaf. As the painting develops, I usually work best by feeling my way towards the conclusion. The wax medium allows me to further explore my painting in a tactile way by selectively exposing and hiding the layers, building a textured surface that retains evidence of scraping, incising and scarring; it usually becomes somewhat of a psychological reflection of my interior life."
EDUCATION
Associate of Arts in graphic design and painting
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Sagefarm Contemporary, Taos, NM
2007 Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN
Red Dot Fair, NYC
2006 Perry Nicole, Red Show, Memphis, TN
2005 Flower Festival, Memphis, TN
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Commercial Bank, Memphis, TN
NSA, Memphis, TN
Lincoln International, NYC
David Johnson, Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION BFA - State University of New York at Potsdam "My goal is to record the dynamic forces of nature from mostly wilderness areas. Through experiments with abstract color and form I invent visual equivalents for the energies I feel when exploring the deserts, mountains, canyons, forests, and oceanside trips which my wife Carol and I have conducted for the past 15 years. I also have an interest in the complexity of nature, with emphasis on the apparent chaos one sees in a virgin forest, for example, rather than the reductive forms in nature created by human development." Christopher St. John EDUCATION EDUCATION GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 The Last Supper, Mariposa Gallery, Albuquerque, NM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS 2000 Cooper Young Artist Invitational, Memphis
Chuck Zimmer
all pieces mixed media
Chuck's current work involves a substantial engagement with natural elements. The only traditional part of his pieces is that they are structured on canvas. In his long and delicate interaction with nature, Chuck folds and wraps a myriad of objects and materials in a canvas envelope and immerses the package in the ground at his Rabbit Ranch studio. With not a small amount of patience and quiet waiting, Chuck eventually examines nature's response to his missive. He works with the results by scraping and washing, or sometimes moving the materials around and letting nature define its point further. The eventual results are pulled on stretcher bars and presented like a painting.
Picture Chuck sitting on his deck, cross-legged, with a pot of tea, contemplating his acres of artwork in progress. He is quietly considering the incremental changes taking place, while at his invitation, a degree of his artistic direction is being marginally usurped. He is breathing softly, steadily communing with the chaos of nature, allowing amounts of uncontrolled intrusions and time's participation as a metaphorical discussion with the unknown.
MFA - Southern Illinois University
Recipent of the Pollock-Krasner Grant, 1999
Richard Knowles
Richard Knowles is a Mid-South painter with an extensive record of exhibitions, commissions, and teaching. He is a retired Professor of Art (Distinguished Emeritus) from the University of Memphis (1999) and continues to produce paintings, drawings, and photography for exhibition at many local, regional, and national sites. He is represented in collections and installations in Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City (KS), Little Rock, Nashville, Memphis and other city museums, universities and private collections.
Recent activity includes group exhibitions at the Memphis College of Art (2007), University of Memphis (2007), Northwest Mississippi Community College (2008). Recent mural commissions include Harrah’s Inn and Casino in East Chicago (2001) and the Westin Hotel in Memphis (2007). Collections include the State Museum, Nashville, Arkansas Art Center, the University of Memphis, Arkansas State University, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Jay Etkin
For the last thirty years, Etkin has considered community involvement an important facet of his busy art career. As far back as 1971 (having just graduated with an art degree from Brooklyn College in New York), Jay immersed himself in teaching art classes at inner-city daycare centers throughout New York. He was later funded through the South Brooklyn Council for the Arts to conduct printmaking workshops for at-risk teens in Brooklyn.
Jay continued to create his own work while teaching throughout N.Y.C. Etkin's life in Memphis started in 1983 with an exhibition at the Memphis College of Art. Jay immersed himself in the local art scene quickly supporting and advocating the rich visual arts talent he encountered here. Ever committed to his personal work as a painter, Etkin also saw great value in supporting various causes outside the arts community. His idea was to involve the arts in all area of life in Memphis. Whether it be St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Heart Association, or Friends for Life, the arts could be used as a tool for fundraising while putting emphasis on the larger value of the arts in a growing city. Etkin' s work is in corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Geneva, Switzerland, Israel, and Japan.
Etkin has been the owner and director of the Jay Etkin Gallery (formerly the Cooper St. Gallery) since 1989.
Jay was also featured in Elite Memphis Magazine in 2002. He was profiled in Memphis Downtowner Magazine in the Spring 2004, and in Memphis columnist, Frederic Koeppel's article in May, 2006.
BFA - University of Alaska, Fairbanks
2007 Recipeint of the Ruben Tam Award, Painting, Artists of Hawaii
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Sagefarm Contemporary, Taos, NM
Anymal, Bethel Street Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2007 Big Hand Blues, Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, HI
2006 The Cloud Eaters Bethel Street Gallery: Honolulu, HI
2006 Everyone Rules the World Bethel Street Gallery: Honolulu, HI
2003 Sprung Pikes Peak Library District; Colorado Springs, CO
BFA - University of Alaska, Fairbanks
2007 Recipeint of the Ruben Tam Award, Painting, Artists of Hawaii
Faces and Figures, The Contemporary Museum Café, Honolulu
2007 Hawaii Artists Exhibition, Bethel Street Gallery, Honolulu
Square Foot, AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu
SOUTHWORKS , Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA
2006 Hawaii Artists Exhibition, Bethel Street Gallery, Honolulu
Two The Red Arrow Gallery, Joshua Tree CA
Square Foot AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Painting I Foundry Art Center: St Charles MO
2004 Square Foot AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Bridge Gallery; Colorado Springs, CO
Square Foot: AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Museum of the North, Fairbanks AK
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
Hawaii State Art Museum
David Hinske
all pieces acrylic on various platforms
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2001 Two Person Show, Cooper Young Gallery, Memphis
2002 Flowers and Art, Dixon Gallery, Memphis
“A Narrow Slice of Pi”, Mariposa Art Space, Memphis
2003 “True Stories About Trees”, Dyersburg State, Covington, TN
“Influence”, Durden Gallery, Memphis
The Art of the Box, Collaboration with C. Hinske, Brooks Museum, Memphis
639:version 2.0, Group show and open studios, Marshall Arts, Memphis
2004 “Chimera”, Playhouse, Memphis
"Tales From a Quiet Kitchen", Durden Gallery, Memphis
2005 "organon", w/ Chuck Zimmer, Durden Gallery, Memphis
2006 “A Life”, Durden Gallery, Memphis
Group Show, “Braided Lives”, Berkeley, CA
2007 “Places and Seasons”, Askew/Nixon/Ferguson, Memphis
“Every Dance Leaves an Echo”, William & Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe
2008 “Road Work”, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis
“In Progress”, Sagefarm Contemporary, Taos
Group Show, “Interwoven Illuminations”, Rane Gallery, Taos
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Downtowner Magazine, Memphis, Tennessee
Henry Turley Company, Memphis, Tennessee
Viking Range Corporation, Greenwood, Mississippi
Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Michigan
Service Assurance Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee
Tipton County Electric Co-Op, Tennessee
Dyersburg State Community College, Covington, Tennessee
