Ryan Goodwin

Artscrawl Sept 17, 2010, 5-8 PM

Premiering in New Mexico and at Palette Contemporary Art and Craft  are oil paintings composed by Ryan Goodwin!

CONCENTRIC opens during our Friday Artscrawl event, September 17, 2010, from 5-8 PM. Come see Ryan's new oil paintings and meet him.

Ryan's painting are colorful and geometric, like puzzle pieces that fit together to create other-worldly landscapes. The compositions originate as "fragments" created on a black-painted canvas. The next paint layer, in gray tones, is applied to create abstract shapes. The third paint layer adds color and variation to each shape.

His colors are specific and not randomly chosen. Ryan mixes his selected colors into separate, neat sections. For each painting he uses limited colors which compliment and contrast one another. Ryan also visits locations like the beach and takes photos; later he samples colors from the photos and uses this combination in his paintings. Usually, all of Ryan’s paintings are completed in one sitting.

Ryan’s paintings are complex structures shadowed for depth. His non-objective shapes give viewers the illusion of reality. It is not surprising that people have picked out a circle or square, thinking that it was a road, house, or, perhaps, a wolf in the background. His images reverberate with movement!

3rd Annual Artists-4-Autism Auction
to benefit the new Autism Center Building Fund
for the Center for Development & Disability at the University of New Mexico.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010
Embassy Suites ballroom, Albuquerque, NM
VIP Champaign Reception & Auction Preview with the Artists, 4 PM
Silent Auction, 6 PM
Live Auction, 7:30 PM
For ticket and sponsorship information, contact
Rita Crozier at 505-272-4715.

Palette has donated Dianne Schlies
JACKSON'S JAZZ

Daniel North

Desert Surfaces

First Friday | October 1, 2010, 5-8pm

This collection explores the energy of the Southwest landscape with captivating, bright "sparks" of color.

Daniel's "action-painting" technique is immediate and sensory-oriented; he makes decisions on composition in the process of creating, which ebbs and flows with the additional layers of paint. He maintains a general concept of the finished piece at the start, but does not make a preliminary sketch.  The process of building layers of paint via mark-making is similar to the contour and gesture lines in a drawing.

Layer after layer, Daniel builds lines and "river-like" paths across the canvas. He uses paint-stirrers and sticks to create this thick, rough surface. In some of the paintings, he applies heat as they dry, which results in a curdled-like surface texture.

Janet Bothne

Paint Interrupted

First Friday | Nov. 5, 2010, 5-8pm

Janet Bothne is having a love affair with paint — and with light, and with color. She likens her work to visual music. One is reminded of masters such as Monet or Turner in the way she caresses her canvas with deft touches of scumbled paint, but in Bothne's work, the sky, water and landscape have dissolved into dancing atoms and only color is left.

In her series, "Long Division," paintings conceived as separate but related units are cut off from each other by the the space between her signature diptychs — the gallery wall functioning as part of the composition. She explains, "the gap within my works not only acts as a visual break amidst the intense color that I typically choose, but also as a metaphor for the constant interruptions we experience in modern life. In the end, the message is that we can persevere and come to see the gaps as part of the journey."