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Introducing Patty Oblack

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SPOTLIGHT: Introducing PATTY OBLACK

I am very excited to introduce to you a new gallery artist, Patty Oblack.
Her abstract creations are made with multiple layers of acrylic paint applied to hardboard mainly with a palette knife. The result is textural beauty filled with gorgeous palette.

“I love what I do,” she comments. “There is nothing but the act of painting itself that brings more satisfaction to my soul. There is no anger or frustration, only the emotional output of creative energy being guided through my hand.”

Dancing Through October, 48 x 72 inches, mixed media on panel

Oblack writes: “Each board, being a fresh page, begins with the layering of colors that has become the trademark of my work. Strings of paint are applied to the surface with a palette knife and drawn one through another to explore the assemblage of reconstructed colors and hues. During this process texture and depth is achieved as the layers become distressed by various techniques which I have created through exploration of the surface.”

PLEASE CLICK ON EITHER IMAGE to view Oblack’s other work,
as well as the current inventory on the web site.

Reflections in the Mist, 20 x 18 inches, mixed media on panel

Visit my gallery often to see what’s new.
Remember I’m here – day and night from anywhere in the world -
to help you discover artworks that add joyful discovery to your life.

joyce

Introducing DEBORAH T COLTER

from my view…

SPOTLIGHT: Introducing DEBORAH T COLTER

It is with great pleasure that I introduce a new gallery artist, Deborah T Colter.
Colter received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
She lives and works in Martha’s Vineyard.

Colter’s canvases give the viewer a geometric landscape of dazzling color with varied textures and shapes that are structurally organized and complex. Energy seems to rise from the surface.

Seize the day, 48 x 60 inches, mixed media

Colten writes: “Quite often I think of the view from an airplane window and how the surface below is mapped out by the intervention of the human hand. The roads, the buildings and homes, the congestion in contrast with open spaces and how those elements interact with natural elements and each other. There is somehow always an ordered sense of chaos, a quiet beauty, when the landscape is viewed from above. Borrowing from virtual images of the earth’s surface, I have enjoyed the ability to travel over the landscape at will. My paintings are influenced by the complexities of pattern, structure of lines and vast open spaces discovered through those virtual travels.”

PLEASE CLICK ON EITHER IMAGE to view Colter’s other work,
as well as the current inventory on the web site.

Countless Moments, 30 x 30 inches, mixed media

Visit my gallery often to see what’s new.
Remember I’m here – day and night from anywhere in the world -
to help you discover artworks that add joyful discovery to your life.

joyce

Noel Hudson, New Series “The Tierra Series”

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SPOTLIGHT: NOËL HUDSON, The Tierra Series

I am pleased to present to you The Tierra Series, landscape paintings by Noël Hudson.

These paintings are bold, contemporary interpretations of aspects of the New Mexico and Alaska landscape, to which Hudson feels a deep connection and a sense of spiritual freedom.

The Pecos Wilderness east of Santa Fe, NM is an area of compelling, dramatic visual contrasts. Its high-peaked mountains and flat-topped mesas surround a lush, sun-drenched valley through which one can see for hundreds of miles.

View of the Tecolote-Pecos, Tierra Series No. 11, 14 x 36, oil on canvas

Hudson writes about her experience in Alaska: “As I traveled by boat through the steep, dense, tree-covered islands of the Inside Passage in Alaska, I was surrounded by a multiplicity of patterns, textures, and monochromatic and polychromatic color, all quiet yet alive with nature’s call.”

Early Morning-Inside Passage, Tierra Series No. 7, 8 x 15, oil on canvas

PLEASE CLICK ON EITHER IMAGE to view Hudson’s other new work,
as well as the current inventory on the web site.

Visit my gallery often to see what’s new.
Remember I’m here – day and night from anywhere in the world -
to help you discover artworks that add joyful discovery to your life.

joyce

New Work by Eric Baronsky

In case you missed my last email, here it is again for review.

from my view….

SPOTLIGHT: ERIC BARONSKY, NEW WORK

I’m pleased to introduce five new works – exciting pieces that can now be viewed on the web site! After recently returning from his hometown of Paris and the South of France, Baronsky’s style has become more textural and provocatively gestural. Nature-scape motifs continue to be intimate to his emotion-laden abstract expressionism. His imagery documents existential contemplation and breathes with vibrant yet tempered pigment. The finish of his work is passionately raw and bold, driven by his “action style” painting.

Time a la Carte, 40″ x 30″, mixed media

PLEASE CLICK ON THE IMAGE to view Baronsky’s other new work,
as well as the current inventory on the web site.

Visit my gallery often to see what’s new.
Remember I’m here – day and night from anywhere in the world -
to help you discover artworks that add joyful discovery to your life.

joyce

May 2010

from my view…

“Works of art… do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centers … taking [the viewer] through the process of discovering meaning.”
Robert Hughes

Viewing art and making discoveries is what the collecting process is all about. I hope that you will discover much as you view the artworks at the Joyce Robins Gallery website!

My redesigned online gallery brings together familiar names, as well as new ones. For those who visited my former Santa Fe location the following artists will conjure visual memories:

Judy Campbell, Eva Carter, Mary Silverwood, Alfie Fernandes and Noël Hudson

MARY SILVERWOOD, Landscapes of New Mexico, no.3, pastel 22″x30″

However, I’ve been canvassing the country to find contemporary artists whose works display that same level of quality, personality, and innovation. Please spend some time perusing the work of Californians Katy Kuhn and John C. Hall, Linda King Ferguson from Michigan, Christopher St. Leger from Texas, Carol Ann from Arizona, Roxanne Rossi from Colorado, and Eric Baronsky, who divides his time between New Mexico and France. You are certain to be entertained and perhaps find artworks that pique you to experience what Robert Hughes calls the “process of discovering meaning.”

I will periodically send you updates about Joyce Robins Gallery, including collaborations in which I work with other galleries. Such is the case with Karan Ruhlen Gallery, in Santa Fe. Daniel Phill, Vanita Smithey and Pauline Ziegen exhibit their works at Karan’s 225 Canyon Road space. I would be delighted to introduce you to their work.

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KATY KUHN, Flood Zone, 48″ x 36″, mm/canvas

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LINDA KING FERGUSON, Raven Bourne,26″ x 60″, oil on canvas

Spotlight
Let me call your attention to a remarkable group of paintings by Linda King Ferguson that I’ve recently added to the site. What Birds Fly Through is Ferguson’s imaginative distillation of the experience of literally viewing the world from a birds-eye point of view. These large, layered impressions explore mark making, textures, patterns, and negative spaces. “Through delineating the voids of space between trees, the trees become as present as the framework of the forest that confines them,” Ferguson explains. “And by narrating the illumination of the falling light and the obscurity of shadow, a spontaneous quality of line and form emerges that only nature can account for. This is what birds fly through.

Visit my gallery often to see what’s new.
I encourage you to email or call me with questions or requests for more information.
Remember I’m here – day and night from anywhere in the world – to help you discover artworks that add joyful discovery to your life.

joyce

Exhibition at Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Anti.Gravity.Material.Light, the first exhibition in a series “New Frontiers”can be view until April 11, 2010 at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.