"About My Time In the Sun"
24 x 12 inches, Oil
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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
To view all works from the exhibition, please click here.
"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
To view all works from the exhibition, please click here.
Kathleen Spencer Johns, "Open," 36 x 24 inches, Oil
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Sale of Works by Kathleen Spencer Johns to Benefit the Lillian Romero Senior Center at the Taos Pueblo
On View: December 13, 2022 -January 22, 2023 in the Fechin Studio Exhibition Reception: Saturday, December 17, from 1-3 PM Kathleen Spencer Johns has always had a soft spot for the elderly. As a high school art teacher, she had a strong desire to impart to her students the wonders and wisdom of connecting deeply with others from all walks of life. So when she and her students had an opportunity to serve the Taos Pueblo, she was delighted that elders |
would be a part of the journey.
Lillian Romero, the director of the Taos Pueblo Senior Center, was a huge inspiration to Spencer Johns because of her commitment to improving the lives of the Pueblo elders. Romero would only retire after more of her dreams for the senior center were realized. Unfortunately, her life was cut short, and she passed.
Romero was so influential on Spencer Johns that she proposed a fundraiser to support the continuation of Lillian’s dreams of improved care for the elders in the form of an art exhibition in Taos Art Museum’s Fechin Studio. Leadership at the Senior Center and Taos Art Museum were supportive, and Spencer Johns was thrilled to be in service to this beautiful undertaking to further care for the elders.
The show will include paintings, solar plates, and monoprints of the Taos Pueblo, as well as portraits.
Lillian Romero, the director of the Taos Pueblo Senior Center, was a huge inspiration to Spencer Johns because of her commitment to improving the lives of the Pueblo elders. Romero would only retire after more of her dreams for the senior center were realized. Unfortunately, her life was cut short, and she passed.
Romero was so influential on Spencer Johns that she proposed a fundraiser to support the continuation of Lillian’s dreams of improved care for the elders in the form of an art exhibition in Taos Art Museum’s Fechin Studio. Leadership at the Senior Center and Taos Art Museum were supportive, and Spencer Johns was thrilled to be in service to this beautiful undertaking to further care for the elders.
The show will include paintings, solar plates, and monoprints of the Taos Pueblo, as well as portraits.
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.