Four artists – each working in their own unique media – are brought together for a don’t miss moment at Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery in downtown Santa Fe. While their materials vary and include copper, textiles, canvas, and micaceous clay, they all employ pigment in some way. The show called Four X Four All Terrain Artists refers to the powerful influence that the land around them has on their work.
Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery Four X Four All Terrain Artists Show
Work from Harlan W. Butt’s series entitled The Odyssey Vessels will be one of the four on display. Professor Butt’s work takes inspiration from Homer’s epic poem. Each piece uses enameling techniques in variations of blue, white, and silver inspired by the waters surrounding the Greek islands. He then inscribes poems he writes into the ten lidded enameled containers.
What started as a ten-day visit to Bali in 1998 has turned into a lifelong love affair for David Mendoza. Mendoza works with a small team of talented Balinese artisans to make indigo dye paste from plants which grow there. The batik process involves hand stamping with exquisitely carved stamps – both antique and contemporary. He’s amassed a collection of close to 200 stamps and his indigo painted and batik textiles are also breathtaking.
Santa Fe and Abiquiu-based plein air oil painter Sarah Grenzeback takes inspiration from the open skies, pure light, as well as rich colors of the New Mexico landscape. “I am grateful that painting gives me a way to interact with the natural world. To witness, to be present, and to have a relationship with the land that surrounds and holds us through everything,” she says. She typically paints on site in one session. Through this, she captures the ever changing landscape, creating works that draw the viewer into them.
Lorenzo Mendez creates hand-built coil and scrape mica clay flameproof painted cookpots. He draws on the ancient traditions of the Jicarilla Apache as well as Northern New Mexico Pueblo artisans for his pieces. You can use his pieces directly over heat, in the oven, with gas, electric, or induction stovetops and even in the microwave. While his work is utilitarian, it is also masterfully created and decorated, resulting in pieces that can be both treasured and used.
Four X Four All Terrain Artists
Opening Artist Reception August 9 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery
103 E. Water Street, 2nd floor
Story by Julia Platt Leonard
Photos Courtesy of the Artists
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