Skyscape 6 by Gina Rossi at Pippin Contemporary

Contemporary Visions: Group Exhibition

A Sensory Experience of Colour and Mood, Abstruse Art, Canyon Road Art, Elizabeth Hahn, Gina Rossi, Glass, Mural paintings, Landscapes, Painters, Paintings, Sculpture, Special Events, Suzanne Wallace Mears

Odyssey by Elizabeth Hahn at Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe

Contemporary Visions: Group Exhibition
Elizabeth Hahn, Suzanne Wallace Mears, Gina Rossi

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 5-7PM

SHOW DATES
SEPTEMBER 18 – OCTOBER 2, 2019

Group Exhibition at Pippin Gimmicky Combines Effigy, Landscape and Sculpture

Santa Fe, NM (May x, 2019): Pippin Gimmicky announces Contemporary Visions, a group prove this autumn for Santa Fe painters Elizabeth Hahn and Gina Rossi with Oklahoma City sculptor Suzanne Wallace Mears. The artists' work varies in style and subject but aligns through a contemporary and colorful vision, resulting in a vibrant exhibition for the fall flavour on Coulee Road. Contemporary Visions opens with an artist reception on Friday, September 20th from v-7pm.

Elizabeth Hahn lives in Santa Atomic number 26 where snapshots from her daily life, dreams and memories inspire her paintings' narrative realism. Saturated color palettes and juxtaposed patterns give her work a pop art feel, while whimsical narratives draw the viewer into playful realms. Cropped perspectives of Hahn's recurring grapheme, typically a self-portrait, reveal journeying feet and flowing skirts equally the viewer follows her on various travels and whims. Hahn says of her latest piece of work for Contemporary Visions: "My character has gone off-the-grid to see what that can do for her lifestyle, and is also trying out some new transportation. She is planning trips and adventures alone and with her sometimes companion."

Suzanne Wallace Mears creates kiln-formed glass sculptures that take the shape of vessels, totems and intriguing abstractions inspired past nature and antiquity. The Oklahoma artist constructs each sculpture with candy-colored glass in abstruse shapes, while often layering copper, wire mesh, bits of dichroic glass and other material for added texture. When displayed, natural light adds exciting complexities to each piece. "The joy of glass is the light that plays through the piece," says Mears. "As the time of twenty-four hour period changes, so does the art. It never stays exactly the aforementioned. It'southward a delightful, challenging dance."

Gina Rossi's personal experiences in nature inspire her brilliant New Mexico landscapes. The Santa Fe painter focuses on the spiritual essence of a place rather than attempting to imitate the literal landscape, which stems from her fascination with the "shan shui" Chinese painting tradition. "This approach to painting the mural has its own life forcefulness and is not an analogy that is line for line, class for form," says Rossi of the "shan shui" fashion. "Rather, the existent essence of the mural is captured in a style which could likewise exist akin with some of the western ideas of romanticism." Rossi balances the line between realism and abstraction with strong mark making and energetic brushwork, forming a loose all the same discernible vision of a Santa Fe sunset or desert wind. Paintings from her Skyscape and Drive By series will be featured for Contemporary Visions.

Pippin Contemporary, founded in May 2011 by artist Aleta Pippin, is located in the heart of the historic Canyon Road fine art district in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The gallery is committed to showing art that is fresh and vibrant, as well as collectible. Pippin Contemporary artists provide visitors with a "sensory experience of color and mood" through vivid portrayals of personal expression. Pippin Contemporary is named All-time Gallery in New Mexico past American Art Awards for 2019 and 2014, and named one of the All-time of 25 Galleries in America.

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-Kelly Carper, Arts Author

Rozie's Epic Journey by Elizabeth Hahn at Pippin Contemporary

In Living Color: Liz Barber, Elizabeth Hahn, Suzanne Wallace Mears, Andrzej Karwacki & Gina Rossi

A Sensory Experience of Color and Mood, Abstract Fine Art, Canyon Road Art, Gimmicky Collector, Elizabeth Hahn, Gina Rossi, Drinking glass, Landscape paintings, Landscapes, Painters, Paintings, Santa Fe Gallery, Suzanne Wallace Mears

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Rozie's Epic Journey by Elizabeth Hahn at Pippin Contemporary

IN LIVING COLOR
Liz Barber, Elizabeth Hahn, Suzanne Wallace Mears, Andrzej Karwacki & Gina Rossi

SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 9, 2018
ARTIST RECEPTION: Fri, SEPTEMBER 28, 5-7PM

Group Show at Pippin Contemporary Exudes Color Through Brainchild, Realism and Sculpture

Santa Fe, NM (May xx, 2018): This September, Pippin Gimmicky hosts a group exhibition that combines Liz Barber'south ethereal brainchild, Elizabeth Hahn's whimsical realism, Andrzej Karwacki's spiritual abstraction, Suzanne Wallace Mears' luminous sculpture, and Gina Rossi's imaginative landscapes.In Living Color volition be a dynamic visual brandish that conveys the powerful emotional bear on of color through art. The opening reception is Friday, September 28th from five-7pm.

Liz Hairdresser is a Georgia-based artist whose paintings are derived from nature; she is specially inspired by water, blooming flora and seasonal shifts. Uneven shapes of saturated color bladder across her canvases, blending and drifting against textured negative space. Her lively yet calming brainchild reminds us of watery or wind-diddled petals. Barber's sizeable exhibition paintings are inspired by the arrival of spring in Atlanta every bit barren trees give style to bursting blooms. "It is such a huge part of my work to capture motion and drama but also very tranquil moments," she says.

Elizabeth Hahn lives in Santa Fe where snapshots from her daily life, dreams and memories inspire her paintings' narrative realism. Saturated color palettes and juxtaposed patterns give her work a popular fine art experience, while whimsical titles describe the viewer into playful realms. Cropped perspectives reveal flowing striped skirts, floral boots or candy-colored high heels; we follow the artist's steps into imaginative daydreams, completing each composition in our own minds. When asked about the significance of her field of study's journeying feet, the artist explains: "Walking has always been my exercise, my therapy and where all my ideas for art come to me."

Andrzej Karwacki's artistic management began to take shape subsequently a move to the San Francisco Bay Surface area in 1994; this is when he began integrating Eastern spirituality into his piece of work. He strives to discover balance between western and eastern concepts through the duality of the identity of homo and the way he perceives the role of human within the cosmos. Karwacki explains: "The process of painting creates a state of Luminality, which leads to the discovery of my very essence. Information technology is like writing a fable, one without words and ane that is rather suggestive in nature. In that progression, I forget all that I know, for originality can only be achieved by reading into my own infinite possibilities."

Suzanne Wallace Mears is a drinking glass creative person who lives and works in Oklahoma City. Her creative procedure prioritizes color; she first decides on a palette earlier assembling her kiln-fired totems and tabletop abstractions. Mears' totems invoke playful personas while her vessels are hit and serene. As light passes through each piece, her sculpture becomes the physical iteration of "living color." "The glass exudes a constant changing personality as the light or 60 minutes of the day changes," says Mears. "It takes on a life of its own."

Gina Rossi is a mural painter whose work is driven past her fascination with southwest skies, mountains and mesas. Her ancestry as a plein air painter gave Rossi a potent understanding of the landscape, but the traditional practice didn't satisfy her creative spirit. Rossi'south manner continued to evolve. She at present relies on her emotion and imparting her energy into each scene. "I scrape, splatter, sand and destroy the surfaces of my paintings. Much like nature does to the state." states Rossi.

Pippin Contemporary, founded in May 2011 by artist Aleta Pippin, is located in the eye of the historic Coulee Road fine art commune in Santa Atomic number 26, New Mexico. The gallery is committed to showing art that is fresh and vibrant, too every bit collectible. Pippin Contemporary artists provide visitors with a "sensory experience of colour and mood" through vivid portrayals of personal expression.

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-Kelly Skeen, Arts Author

Bird on a Wire by Elizabeth Hahn at Pippin Contemporary

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Blue Glace' by Suzanne Wallace Mears at Pippin Contemporary

FOUR Singled-out FEMALE ARTISTS REVEAL EMOTIVE IMPACT OF COLOR AT PIPPIN CONTEMPORARY

Santa Atomic number 26, NM (February 23, 2017): Colour in whatsoever art form, painted or constructed, abstract or figurative, carries a powerful emotive force. This summertime at Pippin Contemporary, iv female artists will explore the emotional quality of color through ethereal brainchild, whimsical realism and sculptural luminosity. Liz Barber, Stephanie Paige, Elizabeth Hahn, and Suzanne Wallace Mears come up together from all corners of the country for their kickoff group exhibition, Expressions in Color, on display from July 5th to July 18th. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, July seventh from 5-7pm.

"The backbone of my painting procedure is an intuitive emotional response to color," says Georgia painter Liz Barber, whose acrylic ink, oil, watercolor and gouache paintings capture the cadency of nature and its seasonal shifts. Hairdresser'south current compositions call back the bursting buds and blooming petals of jump, expressed through jubilant color palettes and fluid movement. Barber'due south lively abstract canvases are complimented past Stephanie Paige's meditative symmetrical panels, characterized past their rich fields of color balanced around stark horizon lines. Nature is too a big influence for Paige, whose paintings emulate textured soil, tranquil water or brilliant sunsets through layers of paint and burnished plaster. The California painter's vivid colors speak directly to the emotional essence of a quiet body of water breeze or desert dusk, and are painted with devotion to Mother Earth.

While Barber and Paige illustrate the affective touch on of color through abstraction, Santa Fe painter Elizabeth Hahn expresses whimsical narratives through figurative work. Bold and imaginative, Hahn'southward imagery resembles storybook illustrations that invite the viewer into playful realms of juxtaposed patterns and popping colors. The concise compositions appear to be snapshots from the artist'south life, from harmonious hues at the breakfast tabular array to polka dot skirts with dancing anxiety. Hahn's trunk of piece of work is a joyful reminder of life's elementary pleasures and wondrous views, while interim equally a welcomed contrast to the otherwise abstract aesthetic of the exhibition.

Barber's joyous abstraction, Paige's soothing symmetry and Hahn's vibrant patterns are translated to physical course in Suzanne Wallace Mears' 3-dimensional glass sculptures. Mears' expressive totems and stoic vessels have on a wide range of shapes that exude optimism through majestic color and reflected calorie-free. Kiln-fired in her Oklahoma Metropolis studio, Mears' totems embody humorous personalities while her tabletop vessels exude a graceful presence. "I can't imagine living in a black and white world," says Mears. "It'south just the style I am. I'm a colorist – it's what makes my world plough."

Pippin Contemporary, founded in May 2011 by artist Aleta Pippin, is located in the heart of the celebrated art district at 409 Canyon Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The gallery is committed to showing art that is fresh and vibrant, too as collectible. Pippin Gimmicky artists provide visitors with a "sensory experience of colour and mood" through vivid portrayals of personal expression .

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