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Wood/metal, A solo exhibition of artworks by Marietta Patricia Leis
On View: September 6, 2022, through October 16, 2022 in the Fechin Studio
Exhibition Reception: Friday, September 9, 2022, 4:00pm - 6:00pm (poetry reading at 5:00pm) in the Fechin Studio.
Curated by Stefan Jennings Batista, Wood/metal is an exhibition highlighting the synergistic approach shared by two distinct but kindred artists, Marietta Patricia Leis and Nicolai Fechin.
Jennings Batista stated, “The chosen works highlight each artist’s ability to combine two elemental and opposing materials, wood and metal. Presented in the hand-built studio of Nicolai Fechin, Leis’s lushly rendered abstract paintings of oil and burnished graphite, minimalist wooden sculptures, woodcut prints, as well as other works, speak to her love of the delicate grains of trees, living landscapes of color, and the reflective strength of the metallic. The connection is drawn to Fechin not just in his artistic identity as the 20th- century academic portraitist and landscape painter, but to his borderless creative spirit as a sculptor…Both Leis & Fechin reveal within their work an innate talent to shape from their chosen materials and places, inspired expressive products. Leis’ vast global travels have informed her practice and inspired a fusion of her external environments and internal landscapes just as Taos did for Nicolai Fechin nearly a century ago.”
Marietta Patricia Leis is a multimedia artist & poet. Originally from New Jersey, she has lived and worked in New York City and Los Angeles, and is currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her art has been exhibited widely and is held in many public collections internationally. She has received numerous awards, grants and artist residencies worldwide. Leis received her MFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico. Her work extends beyond traditional painting to drawings, prints, photography, videos, installations and constructions. Her works often take the form of contemplative reductive abstractions meant to evoke a sensory, visceral response.
“My surfaces try to capture the elegance I seek and hold the viewer long enough where they will probe further into the issues that concern me–our beautiful world and its sustainability. Beyond that, I am happily entrenched in the formal properties of the process–color, edge, space, form and composition. I work until I capture just the right note, or rather the music between the notes.” –Marietta Patricia Leis
On View: September 6, 2022, through October 16, 2022 in the Fechin Studio
Exhibition Reception: Friday, September 9, 2022, 4:00pm - 6:00pm (poetry reading at 5:00pm) in the Fechin Studio.
Curated by Stefan Jennings Batista, Wood/metal is an exhibition highlighting the synergistic approach shared by two distinct but kindred artists, Marietta Patricia Leis and Nicolai Fechin.
Jennings Batista stated, “The chosen works highlight each artist’s ability to combine two elemental and opposing materials, wood and metal. Presented in the hand-built studio of Nicolai Fechin, Leis’s lushly rendered abstract paintings of oil and burnished graphite, minimalist wooden sculptures, woodcut prints, as well as other works, speak to her love of the delicate grains of trees, living landscapes of color, and the reflective strength of the metallic. The connection is drawn to Fechin not just in his artistic identity as the 20th- century academic portraitist and landscape painter, but to his borderless creative spirit as a sculptor…Both Leis & Fechin reveal within their work an innate talent to shape from their chosen materials and places, inspired expressive products. Leis’ vast global travels have informed her practice and inspired a fusion of her external environments and internal landscapes just as Taos did for Nicolai Fechin nearly a century ago.”
Marietta Patricia Leis is a multimedia artist & poet. Originally from New Jersey, she has lived and worked in New York City and Los Angeles, and is currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her art has been exhibited widely and is held in many public collections internationally. She has received numerous awards, grants and artist residencies worldwide. Leis received her MFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico. Her work extends beyond traditional painting to drawings, prints, photography, videos, installations and constructions. Her works often take the form of contemplative reductive abstractions meant to evoke a sensory, visceral response.
“My surfaces try to capture the elegance I seek and hold the viewer long enough where they will probe further into the issues that concern me–our beautiful world and its sustainability. Beyond that, I am happily entrenched in the formal properties of the process–color, edge, space, form and composition. I work until I capture just the right note, or rather the music between the notes.” –Marietta Patricia Leis
"Night" 12x9 inches, oil painting
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The Beautiful Lonesome, a solo exhibition of paintings by Natasha Isenhour
On View: October 25 - December 4, 2022 in the Fechin Studio Exhibition Reception: Saturday, October 29, 1-3 PM American Realist Natasha Isenhour conveys her emotional response to landscape, architecture, and still life in oil, pastel, and watercolor. From a distance, a first impression is the |
realistic feeling of the work. Still, a closer look reveals a contemporary edge where her mark-making controls the impressions of mass and delicacy. Isenhour depicts what she sees as unpopulated spaces with an edgy lonesome starkness that defines the very essence of her work.
"The Beautiful Lonesome" is an echo in my mind constantly. It's the music I listen to, the things I'm drawn to, the landscape I travel through, and the paths I choose to take. My intent for this show is to reflect to the viewer the beauty in the otherwise unnoticed places and things I find throughout the American West, and most often in this incredible place I call home; New Mexico.
While this exhibit illustrates my diversity of medium and subject, the thread of "music" that defines it stays consistent. When I witness beauty, I hear music, which often inspires visions of how to portray a subject. I am sharing with the viewer unpopulated, pensive places that stop me and cover me in chills. The subject dictates the medium for me. The boiled-down simplicity, or the necessary rendering of details I need to include for you to "hear" and "feel" it, comes as a clear internal instruction as I begin to paint. The result is work expressing my emotion about a place or thing rather than an illustration of the nouns often used to describe art.
I want your experience of moving from one painting to the next to feel like the long, sustained draw of a bow over a low, open string of a cello." - Natasha Isenhour
"The Beautiful Lonesome" is an echo in my mind constantly. It's the music I listen to, the things I'm drawn to, the landscape I travel through, and the paths I choose to take. My intent for this show is to reflect to the viewer the beauty in the otherwise unnoticed places and things I find throughout the American West, and most often in this incredible place I call home; New Mexico.
While this exhibit illustrates my diversity of medium and subject, the thread of "music" that defines it stays consistent. When I witness beauty, I hear music, which often inspires visions of how to portray a subject. I am sharing with the viewer unpopulated, pensive places that stop me and cover me in chills. The subject dictates the medium for me. The boiled-down simplicity, or the necessary rendering of details I need to include for you to "hear" and "feel" it, comes as a clear internal instruction as I begin to paint. The result is work expressing my emotion about a place or thing rather than an illustration of the nouns often used to describe art.
I want your experience of moving from one painting to the next to feel like the long, sustained draw of a bow over a low, open string of a cello." - Natasha Isenhour
Interested in submitting an idea for a possible exhibition in the Fechin Studio?
Please send a resume, ten examples of your work, and an artist statement regarding artistic intention and vision for the proposed show to studioexhibitions@taosartmuseum.org. Given that the Studio exhibitions are where Nicolai Fechin created some of his best work, we are particularly interested in proposals inspired by his work and legacy, though it's not required. Incomplete submissions, or proposals sent in another manner, may not be considered. Due to the number of proposals we receive, we may only be able to respond to proposals of potential interest.
We welcome all inquiries and make selections based on curatorial standards of artistic quality and relevance to the mission of the museum.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression,
age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status.
Please send a resume, ten examples of your work, and an artist statement regarding artistic intention and vision for the proposed show to studioexhibitions@taosartmuseum.org. Given that the Studio exhibitions are where Nicolai Fechin created some of his best work, we are particularly interested in proposals inspired by his work and legacy, though it's not required. Incomplete submissions, or proposals sent in another manner, may not be considered. Due to the number of proposals we receive, we may only be able to respond to proposals of potential interest.
We welcome all inquiries and make selections based on curatorial standards of artistic quality and relevance to the mission of the museum.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression,
age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status.