THE OPEN HOUSES FOR APRIL
(7 – 9 PM on the 25th, and 1:30 – 3:30 PM on the 26th-27th
open a season of major art events at The Grapevine and other major
venues through the state.
JIMMY DYER,
FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS AND TONY
HOCHSTETLER, FT. COLLINS, COLORADO
will be here with new work for these open houses.
TONY WILL HAVE MANY WORKS
to show including his new Hog Nosed Snake and the over size
Bean Pods. Tony just called a few minutes ago to say that he is
sending an email of the wax of the next of his oversize plant series,
Venus Fly Trap. It looks like it is going to be terrific.
JIMMY CALLED THIS MORNING
from San Antonio to talk about the missions there. He has been down in
south Texas for several days painting ranches and cattle driving scenes.
We look forward to seeing what comes.
JOHN AND SUSAN WARD
Estes Park, Colorado, had car problems in Kansas and were forced to
return home last month. Despite that, they have gone to special pains
to get new photography and ceramics here for this month. John has sent
an amazingly beautiful print of a rainbow over a Colorado landscape, and
Tony is bringing examples of unusual new work from Susan. John took
those pieces down to Tony’s house yesterday and sent me an email on
Tony’s Bean Pods, saying “For me the very best of Tony’s work is
that which balances delicately between realism and abstraction. . . .In
this case the balance is both literal and metaphoric, and I think this
is Hochstetler at its absolute finest.”
OUR ANNUAL DRUNCH
will be held on Sunday, June 15, 2008 starting at 11:30 AM. This will
follow the Prix de West show at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage
Museum many of our artists are planning on coming. This should be our
largest Drunch ever. We are proud of The Grapevine artists will be
showing at the Prix de West show: Joe Bohler, Monument, Colorado;
Tim Cherry, Branson, Missouri; John Encinias, Denver,
Colorado; Dan Gerhartz, Kewaskum, Wisconsin; Walt Gonske,
Taos, New Mexico; Matt Smith, Scottsdale, Arizona; Shirley
Thomson-Smith, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Kent Ullberg,
Corpus Christi, Texas.
THE RENDEZVOUS SHOW AT TULSA’S GILCREASE
Museum will come on April 19. In addition to the artists above, Tony
Hochstetler will be showing bronze sculpture. Joe Bohler will give a
presentation of his dual careers in painting, piano and singing.
THE MOST RECENT
Journal of Gilcrease Museum has an excellent article on the work
of the late Alfredo Zalce by Kelly Finegan, the Assistant Curator
who put together the show of Alfredo’s work at the museum. The article
contains a good-sized group of illustrations. I’ll try to have a group
of copies of the Journal at the open houses. The show has just come
down, and The Gilcrease asked our permission to see if other museums
will be able to hang it.
THE
PASTEL JOURNAL
for February of this year has a
Bill Hosner
on the cover and an article on his work inside. The article covers
Bill’s large pastels of figures painted outdoors. We are looking
forward to seeing Bill’s works at open houses in late May or early June.
WE ARE
PROUD OF ALL OUR ARTISTS.
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