April Visual Artists

Dorothy Bunny Bowen

Wax Resist Paintings

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Dorothy “Bunny” Bowen (MA, Art History, UNM) has done batik since 1980. She studied with major Australian, American, and Japanese batik artists and taught fiber art classes at Ghost Ranch for fourteen years. She serves on the World Batik Council, Kuala Lumpur, as one of 3 members from the USA. Bowen’s studio will be open during the Placitas Studio Tour in May. www.db-bowen.com

 

Bowen says:  "Working on silk with dyes resisted by molten wax, I continue a 2500-year-old tradition which has been practiced in various forms all around the world. Since 1998 I have studied with master artists skilled in the Japanese form of wax resist: Rozome. A Southwesterner since 1967, I have long drawn upon the high desert landscape as inspiration for my paintings, and am concerned with how this is so rapidly being altered by climate change."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gary W. Priester

Digital Stereograms

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Gary W. Priester is an honors graduate from Art Center College of Design in California.  He worked in advertising for 15 years and was a principal in The Black Point Group, Design, in San Francisco for 12 years.  Priester has been creating magical 3D hidden image stereograms for the last 15 years.  He is the author of three books of stereograms and is one of two stereogram artists who contribute images to the popular Japanese TJ MOOK series which has sold over 4 million copies.  Priester also creates commissioned stereograms for advertising and sales promotion.  Priester is a Placitas resident.

 

 

Joan Fenicle

Photography & Oil Painting

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Joan Fenicle was born and raised in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Entranced by New Mexico for years, she came here to stay in the 1970s. While not much matches the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico has an ancient beauty and without a doubt holds more surprises. You never know what lies at the end of that dirt road!

 

Joan is an active member of the arts communities in Placitas and Albuquerque. She participates in Placitas Studio Tour every Mother’s Day weekend, displaying paintings, photographs and mixed media work. She is Photo Editor for AbqARTS magazine, and editor of undergroundARTS (a weekly on-line supplement to the magazine). She is a long-time member of Rainbow Artists, a women’s art collective, and is a founding member of Perspectives, a Placitas-based photography group.  
In art, as in life, it’s all about the journey - the experiences. Her paintings and photographs are just a way of committing these experiences to history and sharing them with you.  

 

The studio is open every Mother’s Day weekend and by appointment.

 

 

 

Vangie Dunmire

Watercolor

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As a resident of Placitas for twenty-two years, Vangie Dunmire has pursued her love of painting as well as volunteer work in non-profit arts organizations.  She has a BAFA in Art History from the University of New Mexico.  While working on her art history degree Dunmire studied drawing, design, painting and printmaking and continues her education with local instructors focusing on watercolor.  She is a member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society and has been on the board of the Placitas Artists Series.  Dunmire feels fortunate to have excellent landscape material right outside her studio on the north slopes of the Sandia Mountains.  Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Albuquerque and numerous shows locally.

 

 

Dunmire says:  "Watercolor is a challenging medium to work in for it requires the painter to reverse the application of color value on the work surface. . . applying the lightest color values, then the medium and finally the darkest colors.  This can present a difficulty in many compositions as in painting detailed vegetation with the accent of a very dark background.  I enjoy this challenge!"

 

 

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