Previous Exhibitions
Under New Mexico Skies
Showing for the first time in Australia printmakers from New Mexico Phyllis Sloane, AnaMaria Samaniego and Sandra DuranWilson with Australian artist Suzanne Bellamy.
Friday 3 April–Monday 18 MAY 2009
Prints and works on paper by master printmakers Phyllis Sloane, AnaMaria Samaniego and Sandra DuranWilson from New Mexico with new mixed-media works by Suzanne Bellamy from Australia.
Dozens of books have been written trying to explain the magic of New Mexico for the artists and art lovers who fall under its desert spell. Words do not do it justice; better to see for yourself the art it inspires. And now you can. FyreGallery is proud to present original works on paper by the doyen of printmaking from the south-west of the USA, Phyllis Sloane. Her decades of brilliant artmaking are well represented in the prints selected for this show. Her works sit with joyful insouciance alongside the consummate landscape aquatints and etchings of fellow New Mexican printmaker AnaMaria Samaniego. Like Sloane and Samaniego, Sandra DuranWilson is also showing for the first time in Australia. Her intriguing abstract paper compilations draw on her deep interest in science, math and philosophy. DuranWilson references that other important aspect of New Mexico - its historic association with scientific exploration.
But it is not just the artists who live under New Mexico skies who draw their inspiration from those places. Acclaimed Australian artist Suzanne Bellamy has had a 30 year connection with the valleys and mesas of Taos and Ghost Ranch. She joins Sloane, Samaniego and DuranWilson to show her startling new mixed-media works which embody many of her strong emotional and intellectual responses to those remarkable places.
Gallery Director, Cheryl Hannah, is honoured to present her ninth show in fYREGALLERY by four wonderful artists, each with her own commanding vision of amazing New Mexico.
