Barb Belknap
Stained glass
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Barb Belknap, owner Placitas Art Glass, majored in animation at Carnegie-Mellon University and worked for three animation studios. In her twenties, she worked as an artist in an ecclesiastical art studio. Belknap opened an art glass studio in New Mexico in 1986, where she met her husband, Ty. Belknaps became owner-publisher of the Signpost newspaper in 1993, as well as founding Albuquerque Arts magazine in 1997. In 2011, Belknap was chosen by The New Mexico Committee for Women in the Arts and The Center for Contemporary Arts as one of one-hundred-and-thirty “outstanding New Mexico women artists” to show in their fine arts exhibition “18 Days” at the Muñoz Waxman Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Belknap says: “Glass is a wondrous thing to use as an artists’ material. It allows a finished design to come alive with light and motion. The interactive viewer may be surprised and delighted by more than is expected.”
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Diana Martin
Beaded jewelry
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Diana Martin lives with her dog, Mr. Muffkin, in Albuquerque, NM. A self-taught student of fine crafts, throughout her adult life she has explored macramé, weaving, basketry, fiber sculpture, and now enjoys sculpting beaded jewelry. Throughout the years her creations have been displayed in many stores and galleries including The Museum of Contemporary Art Gift Shop in Chicago, Mariposa Gallery in Albuquerque, and most recently Pismo Glass Gallery in Denver for their 2010 Bead Invitational. In addition to the personal challenge of mastering art crafts in many forms, Diana enjoys teaching these skills to others.
Martin says: “I thrive on the riot of color in the flowers of my luscious summer garden, just as I am delighted by the infinite colors of beads in my studio. I fashion my jewelry with an array of glass seed beads enhanced with cut crystals, freshwater pearls, and other accent beads. My passion for gardening inspires many of designs, allowing me to grow beautiful flowers throughout the year. Other times I am moved by the beauty of the beads themselves: the play of light through glass, or how they dance with their neighbors in a pattern of stitches. Like Nature herself, I sculpt my necklaces, bracelets, and earrings with a spirit of joy and abundance, flaunting color and form to attract maximum attention. We adorn ourselves with jewelry to celebrate beauty, do we not? I say embellish with abandon!”
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Judith Roderick
Silk Paintng & Silk Quilts
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I touched upon the Batik process, wax resist on cotton, while a Painting and Design major at Carnegie Tech in the 1960’s, and that FIBER THREAD has run throughout my life. I batiked for decades, creating wall hangings, clothing and quilts. Since 1982 I have been painting on Silk, concurrent with oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, raising a family, printmaking, photography, owning Village Wools, a fiber supply store in Albuquerque, for 10 years, teaching, a career in Wearable Art, and retiring from all of those. The cloth still calls, the dye on the silk is still a familiar and magical way of expression.
My current subject matter is Cranes and other birds, flora and fauna, the beauty and diversity of Nature.
I am enjoying spiraling back to some of my earlier focuses of quilts, block prints, and Artist’s books.
The quilts are very satisfying for me now, a way to take my silk painted images to another level. I paint the silk in the summers, and making the quilts is a perfect winter activity, slow, complex, and very meditative.
Roderick says: "I know the medium of Silk Painting quite well by now, and it still pleases me to see how the dye flows on the fabric, the luminous colors, the spontaneous textures created by the salt.
My focus is on nature. My current work has been called Avian Portraiture, as I capture the beauty and the diversity of the Bird Kingdoms on silk, from the common, carefully observed birds out m window and in my everyday life, to the endangered species that I have traveled far to see. From wearable silk scarves to elaborate silk quilts embellished with antique buttons, my work celebrates the delight and wonder of the natural world. It is my hope and intention that these birds and their habitats will still be here for my Grandchildren's Grandchildren to observe and enjoy."
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© Copyright Laura Robbins - All rights reserved
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Laura Robbins creates non-traditional mosaics that primarily incorporate cut and fused glass with hand formed ceramics. She also utilizes natural and man-made objects. Her imagery explores spontaneous design, mythical, natural and environmental concepts.
Lauraʼs work can be seen at the new Bio Park Insectarium (after September 2011) and as this yearʼs Globalquerque Music Festival poster art. Her work is included in private collections. She has completed commissions for residencies, businesses and schools throughout New Mexico and elsewhere, including the Range Cafes, Bosque School, Sandia Prep, Amy Biehl High School and Accion New Mexico. She is currently co-spearheading the multi-panel, seventy-foot-long Placitas Community Mosaic Mural, Protect Our Wildlife Corridors. This project has involved hundreds of community members and seeks to raise awareness of New Mexico's indigenous animals and their need to travel to maintain genetic viability.
Lauraʼs work has been published in books, magazines and newspapers and has received several awards over the past nine years. She received her BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University with an award in Printmaking. She taught in public and private schools from 1984 to 2003.
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Born in New York, Susan Reid has made Albuquerque her home since 1973. Her father, a professional artist, encouraged drawing and painting, yet she was in her 40’s before painting seriously. While having taken many art classes, she considers herself primarily self taught. Reid has been represented by Matrix Fine Art in Albuquerque since 2006 and has had two solo shows there. Her work is in private collections throughout the country.
Reid says: “My paintings are designs done in acrylic on canvas. They’re all about motion, vibration and color, inspired by nature, science, math, and cultures around the world. Byzantine tile, native beadwork, the symmetrical patterns of mandalas, and fractals are examples. But it’s Australian Aboriginal Art that most influences my work. I took a trip to Australia in 1997 and have been painting dots ever since”.
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