Art

Carolyn Schmitz

Carolyn Schmitz

Carolyn Schmitz's work expresses her personal relationship to the earth and the impact of the human population upon it. Nature's smallest details, from the woodlands of Missouri to the forest and desert of Arizona, have held her interest since the beginning of her life as an artist. Schmitz's family moved from Kansas City to Prescott in 1954. She returned for foundation courses at the Kansas City Art Institute, and finished at Arizona State University with a BFA in 1969. For 30 years, Schmitz did anything that paid involving drawing or painting—mainly murals and decorative finishes for interior designers. In 2000, Schmitz returned to her childhood home near Prescott. After 4 years at the co-op gallery, Arts Prescott, her work now shows at Van Gogh's Ear, and at Raku in Jerome.

Carolyn Schmitz

Carolyn Schmitz

Carolyn Schmitz's work expresses her personal relationship to the earth and the impact of the human population upon it. Nature's smallest details, from the woodlands of Missouri to the forest and desert of Arizona, have held her interest since the beginning of her life as an artist. Schmitz's family moved from Kansas City to Prescott in 1954. She returned for foundation courses at the Kansas City Art Institute, and finished at Arizona State University with a BFA in 1969. For 30 years, Schmitz did anything that paid involving drawing or painting—mainly murals and decorative finishes for interior designers. In 2000, Schmitz returned to her childhood home near Prescott. After 4 years at the co-op gallery, Arts Prescott, her work now shows at Van Gogh's Ear, and at Raku in Jerome.

Carolyn
Schmitz

Charles Harker

Charles Harker

Charles Harker uses vector graphics to illustrate his digital canvas with bright, bold imaginary landscapes. Some images are busy, with skyscrapers, people and plants. Harker grew up in Phoenix and moved to the Bay Area to study Fine Art at the University of California at Berkeley. He later taught graphics at New Yorks Fashion Institute of Technology. In 2010 the book, The Imaginary Landscapes of Charles Harker was published containing 44 of his works. His work is available for licensing from GettyImages.com. A recent client is Met Life in New York City.

Charles Harker

Charles Harker

Charles Harker uses vector graphics to illustrate his digital canvas with bright, bold imaginary landscapes. Some images are busy, with skyscrapers, people and plants. Harker grew up in Phoenix and moved to the Bay Area to study Fine Art at the University of California at Berkeley. He later taught graphics at New Yorks Fashion Institute of Technology. In 2010 the book, The Imaginary Landscapes of Charles Harker was published containing 44 of his works. His work is available for licensing from GettyImages.com. A recent client is Met Life in New York City.

Charles
Harker

Dave Wilder

Dave Wilder

Dave Wilder has been drawing and painting his unique vision of the American West for over 20 years. Using humor and surrealism to challenge the genre of traditional cowboy art, Wilder seeks to shine a light on the Western Myth that we all grew up with. Today, his meticulously rendered watercolors hang in private collections throughout America and overseas. "I paint the imaginary West," says Wilder, "not the real one. As an artist I find our collective ideas about the West to be an incredibly fertile source of inspiration. Not as historical drama or morality play, but as a uniquely American mythology that simply begs comment."

Dave Wilder

Dave Wilder

Dave Wilder has been drawing and painting his unique vision of the American West for over 20 years. Using humor and surrealism to challenge the genre of traditional cowboy art, Wilder seeks to shine a light on the Western Myth that we all grew up with. Today, his meticulously rendered watercolors hang in private collections throughout America and overseas. "I paint the imaginary West," says Wilder, "not the real one. As an artist I find our collective ideas about the West to be an incredibly fertile source of inspiration. Not as historical drama or morality play, but as a uniquely American mythology that simply begs comment."

Dave
Wilder

George Rodrigue

George Rodrigue

Born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, artist George Rodrigue is best known for his Blue Dog paintings, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the early 1990s. His art studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette followed by the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California gave him a foundation that spawned a great success story in southern art. Rodrigue's art is the subject of twelve books, published nationally and internationally, as well as numerous museum exhibitions, including forty-year career retrospectives at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum in Memphis, Tennessee (2007) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (2008). Rodrigue exhibits his original paintings and silkscreens in his own galleries in Carmel, California and New Orleans.

George Rodrigue

George Rodrigue

Born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, artist George Rodrigue is best known for his Blue Dog paintings, which catapulted him to worldwide fame in the early 1990s. His art studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette followed by the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California gave him a foundation that spawned a great success story in southern art. Rodrigue's art is the subject of twelve books, published nationally and internationally, as well as numerous museum exhibitions, including forty-year career retrospectives at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum in Memphis, Tennessee (2007) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (2008). Rodrigue exhibits his original paintings and silkscreens in his own galleries in Carmel, California and New Orleans.

George
Rodrigue

Larry Willis

Larry Willis

Arizona native, Larry Willis, lives in Chandler, Arizona. He has exhibited at dozens of galleries and art centers from Maine to California, including twice at the Southwestern Invitational Exhibition and two times at the Tucson Museum of Arts Arizona Biennial. His numerous solo shows include two times at the Arizona State Capitol's West Wing Gallery, and most recently at TRYST Art Gallery in Chandler, Arizona. Loosely rooted in the Pop Art of the 1960s, Willis paintings sometimes draw upon extant images from pop culture, along with incorporation of classic themes and references from art history creating a personal amalgam.

Larry Willis

Larry Willis

Arizona native, Larry Willis, lives in Chandler, Arizona. He has exhibited at dozens of galleries and art centers from Maine to California, including twice at the Southwestern Invitational Exhibition and two times at the Tucson Museum of Arts Arizona Biennial. His numerous solo shows include two times at the Arizona State Capitol's West Wing Gallery, and most recently at TRYST Art Gallery in Chandler, Arizona. Loosely rooted in the Pop Art of the 1960s, Willis paintings sometimes draw upon extant images from pop culture, along with incorporation of classic themes and references from art history creating a personal amalgam.

Larry
Willis

Michael Ward

Michael Ward

Michael Ward was born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1970. His work (painting, printmaking and sculpture) constitutes a personal narrative, a visual tactile biography. Through imagery, sometimes abstract, sometimes concrete, he explores his family history and the minutiae of his immediate surroundings. He is concerned with the commonplace, from the familiar urban landscapes from his childhood to everyday objects in his studio, and has recently rediscovered life drawing in order to embark on a series of figurative paintings. The series "Toy Soldiers" will be on show at "Above the Serious" Stoke Newington Library Gallery at the end of November. He lives and works in London, England. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture and has exhibited at the Botanic Gardens, Dublin, The Irish Arts Centre in New York and at the Free Art Fair in London. His work in the Gallaigh series was shown at the Tricycle Gallery in Kilburn, London.

Michael Ward

Michael Ward

Michael Ward was born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1970. His work (painting, printmaking and sculpture) constitutes a personal narrative, a visual tactile biography. Through imagery, sometimes abstract, sometimes concrete, he explores his family history and the minutiae of his immediate surroundings. He is concerned with the commonplace, from the familiar urban landscapes from his childhood to everyday objects in his studio, and has recently rediscovered life drawing in order to embark on a series of figurative paintings. The series "Toy Soldiers" will be on show at "Above the Serious" Stoke Newington Library Gallery at the end of November. He lives and works in London, England. He graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture and has exhibited at the Botanic Gardens, Dublin, The Irish Arts Centre in New York and at the Free Art Fair in London. His work in the Gallaigh series was shown at the Tricycle Gallery in Kilburn, London.

Michael
Ward

Rafael Navarro

Rafael Navarro

Rafael Navarro's innate creative abilities emerged long before he entered high school in his native Mexico City. The primarily self-taught artist who draws inspiration from his rich heritage, eclectic music, nature, personal observations and childhood memories has resided in Phoenix since 1989. His work, often influenced by Rene Magritte, Picasso and Frida Kahlo, has drawn critical acclaim from local academics and art patrons to national curators. He is adept at proposing an idea, then transforming its reality within sculpture, painting and printmaking. He now is an esteemed member of the thriving downtown-art community.

Rafael Navarro

Rafael Navarro

Rafael Navarro's innate creative abilities emerged long before he entered high school in his native Mexico City. The primarily self-taught artist who draws inspiration from his rich heritage, eclectic music, nature, personal observations and childhood memories has resided in Phoenix since 1989. His work, often influenced by Rene Magritte, Picasso and Frida Kahlo, has drawn critical acclaim from local academics and art patrons to national curators. He is adept at proposing an idea, then transforming its reality within sculpture, painting and printmaking. He now is an esteemed member of the thriving downtown-art community.

Rafael
Navarro

Sara Newton

Sara Newton

After 20 years of choreographing ballet and modern dance, it makes sense that Sara Newton's painting focuses both on the figurative and the abstract forms of expression. Her work is influenced by Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff and the other California Bay Area Figurative artists of the 50s and 60s.

Sara Newton

Sara Newton

After 20 years of choreographing ballet and modern dance, it makes sense that Sara Newton's painting focuses both on the figurative and the abstract forms of expression. Her work is influenced by Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff and the other California Bay Area Figurative artists of the 50s and 60s.

Sara
Newton