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“Wild, Wild, West” has filled
the Call for Entries at Online Juried Shows and we
await the results from the jurors. This exhibit opens in late October 2022 at
the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, and will move to Blue Sage Gallery in
Paonia in June 2023.
Member
meeting in person at Denver Botanic Gardens on October 16, 1 - 3 pm. This
meeting also collects the artists’ submissions for Wild, Wild, West. Members can drop off their pieces at the end
of the meeting. We will gather in Classroom 1 of the F-N Education Center.
Please feel free to bring anything you may be working on to the meeting. We do
so like to see one another’s work.
Member
shows. Susan Rubin, Phillip Potter, and Susan DiMarchi abstract through a
botanical lens, featuring drawings in colored pencil and mixed media.
Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Bl, Denver, October 27 –
November 20
Opening Receptions: Friday,
October 28, 5-9 pm
Saturday,
October 29, noon-5pm
Rubin’s ‘Perspective’ considers
the pandemic’s effects on the way we see things, offering descriptive
juxtaposition of size and perspective to describe our shifting viewpoint.
‘Community’, colored
pencil and pastel, 24X24”, ©
2022 Susan Rubin
Potter’s ‘Ineffable’ suggests life
experiences are shaded by mundane and corporeal actuality, while reality is our
perception and how we process the experience.
'Transitory Formation
of Mental Objects’, colored pencil and gouache, 16 X16”, © 2022 Phillip Potter
DiMarchi’s ‘Shelf Life’, reminds
us that everything has an expiration date. Nothing lasts forever, except the
plastic milk jug.
“Incoming Beetle, 16X16”, Colored Pencil, © 2022 Susan
DiMarchi
“Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity
in Garden, Farm, and Field” is the ASBA traveling exhibit coming this
month to DBG. October 7 Opening is “sold out.” Hope some of you signed up
on-line before the limit was reached. Also opening are “Seeing Red: Botanical Art and Illustration” and “Sammy Seung-min Lee: Taking Root.”