Amapola Gallery presents Delfie Martinez and Vera Russell as our Featured Artists in August. In “Serendipity and Sharing,” their works include kiln glass and paintings.
Delfie Martinez is inspired by the surrounding beauty of nature, and the notion of sharing this in tactile form. Using frit, rods, stringers, sheet glass and more, Delfie turns what she sees into glass. The resulting art is not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional. She is stimulated by the near-limitless possibilities of kiln-formed glass and the serendipity of realizing a perfectly formed finished piece. Working with kiln-firing, Martinez can never be certain what the kiln will allow the final result to be.
For artist Vera Russell, painting is an emotional response to an event or thing, fulfilling her desire to share, or perhaps preserve, the event. This can be a brilliant sunset, an austere, time-wrinkled face, New Mexico landscapes or a fragrant purple onion. After a highly successful multi-state career in ceramics, Russell returned to her first love, oil painting. She has since expanded her repertoire to include pastels, acrylics, mixed media pieces. And watercolors, speaking of serendipity.
Using vastly different art forms, both artists benefit from the serendipity of process, and proceed with a desire to share their visions of the world with others.
Meet the artists at their reception on Friday, August first, from 1 to 4, at Amapola Gallery. The exhibition will be up for the entire month of August.
Amapola Gallery, on The Plaza in Old Town, upstairs at 205 Romero NW.
(505)-242-4311
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