Riverwalk Colors

 

Mark Keathley

Riverwalk Colors

24 x 48

Oil

$8900

 

 

-Gabriel Diego Delgado

gabrield@jrmooneygalleries.com

 

The San Antonio River has a rich and elaborate history; steeped in celebratory recognition by indigenous settlers.  In 1536 Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, a shipwrecked captive of the Native Americans, makes his way with his captors to the southern part of  Texas; he is one of the first to describe the elegance of the river in what is now San Antonio. 

 Fast forward 300 years and in 1809 La Villita develops across the river from Mission San Antonio and the Villa de San Fernando.  Another century later in 1936, Jack White, owner of the White Plaza Hotel, and the Mexican Businessmen's Association stage the first river parade. The early 1940’s saw the completion of the walkways, stairways, footbridge, rock walls, and Arneson River Theater.  In the midst of the 1960’s counter culture revolution, San Antonio voters approved a $500,000 bond issue for Paseo del Rio improvements.  The decade from 2000-2010 saw the scenic landscape drastically change with various additions of commerce on the river walk with the opening of such landmark businsses and well known restaurant chains like: The Drury, Mexican Manhattan, Landry's, Hotel Valencia, Pat O’Brien’s, Watermark Hotel and Spa, Five & Dime General Store, Hotel Contessa, Rainforest Café, Waxy O’Connor’s, Iron Cactus, Culinary Institute of America, Pearl Stable, Aztec Theatre, Drury Plaza, Saltgrass Steakhouse, and the Grand Hyatt, among many others.

 Contested as a bucket list pilgrimage of many national and international tourists, but also a nightly adventure playground by the newly established urban residents, the Riverwalk can play a variety of roles for anyone- including Muse.

 While many artists have chosen to paint the San Antonio Riverwalk, from hobbyists to en plein air to easel painters- all try to capture the metaphysical essence of such a national treasure.

 Mark Keathley’s new riverwalk landscape offers a painterly panoramic version of an extended vantage of the crowded umbrellascape for lackadaisical café cruising.  Complementing, vibrant and rich hues of spring flair compose the color palette in Riverwalk Colors, a 24” x 48” oil on canvas. Cool river reflections shimmer and mimic the playful plants and manicured vegetation that smatter the iconic river-scape. Rustically rendered architectural structures line the right flank of the painting, leading us in a one point perspective along a curving waterline.  Spanish tiled roofs, stucco facades and the Riverwalk Vistas’s signatory brick exterior contrast the seemingly organic pathway on the left riverbank.

 Extraordinary care was taken to capture the sunlight peering down onto the cobblestone, warming the ever so inviting casual dining area.  Highlights in the stone wall create glowing accents by the furthest table, affixing the center point of the painting.   Sunspots act as vibrant spotlights that dance down the pedestrian sidewalk as light filters through various tree canopies.

 Keathley achieves a new level of nostalgic integrity by allowing us, the viewer to experience his own fond memory of San Antonio by placing us in his shoes, a perfect picturesque moment.  Thank you Mark, Thank you!

 © Gabriel Diego Delgado

To purchase work by Mark Keathley, Please call J.R. Mooney Galleries at: 210-828 8214, or visit us at www.jrmooneygalleries.com

BoerneFest 2013 in the new NHOME Magazine May/June 2013

ALL ABOUT THE ARTS

 

THE BEST OF BOERNEFEST 2013

 

 

 

 

----------May 17 - 19, Boerne, Texas will continue one of their newest festival traditions –“BoerneFest”.  In its second year, Best of BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013 is a fabulously family-friendly weekend, all centered on Boerne’s downtown Main Plaza Square.  Art exhibitions, free concerts, local vendors, local commerce, a farmer’s market, an “Art Waddle” art/craft walk, kids events and activities, and much more awaits you at this unique three days of family fun in Historic Boerne.

 

Best of BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013, “is essentially a collaboration of four entities, the Greater Boerne Area Chamber of Commerce, the City of Boerne, Hill Country Mile, and the Hill Country Council of Arts”, says HCC President, Doris Perez...................

 

 

Read the Full article at:

 

http://issuu.com/nhome/docs/nhome_mayjune_issuu

 

Pages 90-91

 

 

New Promitional Rack Card for JR Mooney Galleries

Best of BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013

BoerneFest

– “Family Fun Found in Community, Commerce, and Culture”

-San Antonio, Gabriel Diego Delgado

May 17 - 19, Boerne, Texas will continue one of their newest festival traditions –“BoerneFest”.  In its second year, Best of BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013 is a fabulously family-friendly weekend, all centered on Boerne’s downtown Main Plaza Square.  Art exhibitions, free concerts, local vendors, local commerce, a farmer’s market, an “Art Waddle” art/craft walk, kids events and activities, and much more awaits you at this unique three days of family fun in Historic Boerne.

Best of BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013, “is essentially a collaboration of four entities, the Greater Boerne Area Chamber of Commerce, the City of Boerne, Hill Country Mile, and the Hill Country Council of Arts”, says HCC President, Doris Perez.  “It is a way to showcase all the arts of our area”, she adds. In addition to all the visual arts and wares for sale there will be three different stages that will showcase free performances ranging from high school theatricals to regional choirs, to Community Theater, to well known country bands like Two Tons of Steel and Gary P. Nunn. 

“It is a wonderful reason to come and experience what Boerne has to offer”, states Perez. 

At 7 pm Friday, Two Tons of Steel”, a rockabilly/country band will be performing on the Main Stage as part of the Best of BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013  Outdoor Free Concert Series…. in addition to music,  all the vendors, food trucks, local commerce tables, sales of beer and wine continues all weekend”.

For Best of BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013, Saturday is all about the Arts.  “Previous year’s BoerneFest focus was on the Heart of Boerne and Currey Creek trails and the river expansion projects”, said Donald Darst, President of Boerne Professional Artists. “However as the festival gets bigger we are able to add more and more vendors, events, and artists to help make the weekend more successful…This is the first time BoerneFest is doing an art show”, he gladly emphasizes. “With this year’s theme of Community, Commerce, and Culture, BPA is collaborating with the HCC to exhibit high quality fine art by regional visual artists showcasing artwork done in acrylics, oils and watercolors, pottery, jewelry, woodcarvings and more; all of which are available for sale and purchase during this wonderful event”, Darst adds.

BPA wants to keep the art synergy going in Boerne, having just ended another successful run with their annual Parade of Artists weekend in April.  “Boosting over 35 fine artists, the BoerneFest Art show is an event not to be missed”, Darst closes. The BPA sponsored art sale will begin at 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday May 18, 2013 at Waterworks Terrace- 100 N. Main behind Main Plaza- Look for the white tents.

 On Saturday May 18^th the Farmers Market at the Cibilo will set up produce starting at 8:30 am till 12:30 pm at the Plaza Square. At 10 am – 2 pm there will be “Art on the Plaza”, a kid’s art area sponsored by the HCC and the Cibilo Nature Center- a “make and take” art experience for elementary through high school age children. Each art station will be guided by local artists at different art tables.  Plus, on Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm an eclectic array of artists will be giving demonstrations of various art making methods; from Plein Air painting to textile looming to other Fine Art techniques at the Main Square Plaza. Rounding out the art events is a themed venture titled: “Donation/Creation”. Doris Perez says, “This idea has been initiated by the HCC and several local nonprofits…throughout the Boerne business community companies are setting up donation stations in their stores and corporations; asking for donations for various pre-selected items: canned food items , pet food, school supplies, and baby items.  Each creation station at Best of BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013 will have local business employees / volunteers partnering with the public to build sculptures made from these donations. At the end of the day the volunteers and employees will disassemble the art and donate the items to the relevant social services and community based entities.”

In addition to the Fine Art Sale by BPA on Saturday, the HCC has partnered with other residents in the City of Boerne for a Sunday Art venture; having curated an art walk dubbed “The Art Waddle”-  a reference to the infamous ducks that have become the signature fowl for the Boerne river walk, says Perez. The “Waddle” will start on Sunday May 19^th at 204 W. San Antonio St. in the “Flats” subdivision on the other side of the creek opposite of Waterworks Terrace at 10 am and will continue till 4 pm, allowing festival goers to meander along a predestined walk-able route.  Local crafters, artisans and artists will be selling their wares in a yard-sale format with areas designated and identified by lawn signs bearing the “waddling” Duck.

Sunday will also emphasize the “Community” with a special focus on the many facets of the Faith-based population in the Boerne Area. From 12 noon till 5 pm local churches and organizations will be performing on the three stages to perform various religious hymns and spiritual music numbers.  Highlights of Sunday’s church performances will include an 85 person choir on the Main Stage.

Be sure to mark your calendars for a great weekend of Community, Commerce, and Culture in Historic Boerne, TX with BOERNEFEST: BLOCK PARTY 2013 on May 17 – 19, 2013. Come on out and see why BOERNEFEST demonstrates why Boerne holds the title of the 4th Best Small Town in America.

 ©Gabriel Diego Delgado

Boerne Business Monthly May 2013

BoerneFest Block Party 2013

See the newest edition of the Boerne Business Monthly.

Our monthly column, Mooney Makes Sense on page 28 showcases some Need to Know information on whats happening in Boerne, Texas this weekend. 

See the magazine at:

http://bluetoad.com/publication/?m=5721&l=1

90 Year old German Impressionist (Willi Bauer) -IMPRESSES US with his new paintings!!

Sunny Day by the Lake

Willi Bauer

Oil

13 ½ x 16 ¼

$3,190.00

Gabriel Diego Delgado

Art Consultant

gabrield@jrmooneygalleries.com

Willi Bauer was born July 7, 1923 in the Spessart mountain range area in Northern Bavaria, Germany. He is considered one of the leading modern impressionist painters of our time.  Capturing the essence of the time honored landscapes, vibrant markets and bustling city scenes, Bauer executes with a stylistic endearment found only in those special artists who have been painting for over 70 years.  

Now in his 90’s, Bauer’s early art education in Berlin and his studies at the acclaimed  Städelschule School in Frankfurt, Germany anchored the artistic foundation to his scholarly art application and painterly approach.  

Willi Bauer, Oil,  13 ½ x 16 ¼,  $3,190.00

Sunny Day by the Lake is a smaller oil painting that generates a dynamic punch of pure impressionistic perseverance. 

 Holding true to a traditional modernist genre, Bauer delivers a miniature, but grandiose, painting that admiringly reflects his mentor, Otto Pippel with subtle homages to his great paintings like Sun Street in Munich and Munich Coffee Garden.  Heavy layers of quasi-pointillist technique create rhythmic blots of color across the landscape and open air bistro.  Reminiscent of impressionistic market scenes of the 1890’s, Bauer generalizes the figures, their garments and dining experience. However, minus all the details, the audience senses the formal and aristocratic aura of these patrons. 

With the white boat sails adding a triangular temple, pointing skyward, we are guided in the cool painterly palette of the calming harbor, hazy in a cerulean mist. Layers and layers of mountain ranges add depth and perspective to an otherwise flat pictorial composition. Bottom heavy, a strong horizontal is dominated by the prominent white paint on the street level.  

Bauer keeps us focused on the lower part of the painting; these banqueting ladies and gentlemen are bookended with purposefully arranged configurations between the two story brick building on the left and the repetitive tree verticals on the right.  The suppressed “v” shaped curve of the marina draws us back to these modernist figures, arriving at the two individuals standing in the middle- the man in the black suit coat and the woman in the white hat and brown shawl.

Willi Bauer’s paint palette is instinctively balanced with a mixture of earth tone browns, burnt siennas, and viridians juxtaposed by the chalky cobalt blue impasto perfections.  Speckled orange highlights dance across the table-scape like chords on sheet music.  Bauer creates artistic walla that evokes a second or third sensory experience to viewing his artwork.

J.R. Mooney Galleries has acquired two new Willi Bauer paintings, a unique trove of fine art treasury.  With Bauer’s age and declining studio abilities, JR Mooney Galleries sees these important paintings as part of this German artist’s career.

©Gabriel Diego Delgado

Mark Keathley @ 2nd Saturday Art Crawl, Boerne, TX JR Mooney Galleries

Mark Keathley

Come out to JR Mooney Galleries in Boerne Texas on Saturday May 11, 2013 from 4 pm - 8 pm for our select hanging of newer work by Mark Keathley during the 2nd Saturday Art Crawl in Boerne, Texas. While your out, be sure to see the other galleries participating Saturday night as well. See Keathley's new work after his recent showing at the Briscoe Western Art Museum.

Awarded the “Patron’s Choice Award” at the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s Night of the Artist exhibition

---Mark Keathley has done some amazing work painting and illustrating Native Americans, the Old West, Texas wildlife, and other aspect of country living. Keathley’s evocative sensibilities are hammered home with lively landscapes and nostalgic pictorial epiphanies of Western Cowboy and Native American cultural identity.  Keathley’s painterly essence is found in his quasi-hyper realism, his stylistic capturing of water ripples, muscle contours, textures and various other details.  Keathley proves that Contemporary Western Art and Plein Air painting are making significant contributions to the ever changing and trending Art World. 

Get Along Lil' Doggies

Another Good Year

Gabriel Diego Delgado

gabrield@jrmooneygalleries.com

Mark Keathley has done some amazing work painting and illustrating Native Americans, the Old West, and Texas wildlife. Keathley’s evocative sensibilities are hammered home with lively landscapes and nostalgic pictorial epiphanies of Western Cowboy and Native American cultural identity.  Keathley’s painterly essence is found in his quasi-hyper realism.  Capturing water ripples, muscle contours, textures and various other details, Keathley proves that Contemporary Western Art is making significant contributions to the Art World. 

After being awarded the “Patron’s Choice Award” at the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s Night of the Artist exhibition, his Native Sun masterpiece painting depicting austere Native American Nobility not only sold for the recommended $15,000 price tag, but had the ultimate art patron and museum-goer recognition with such a bestowment.

At J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art, Keathley does not disappoint with a spectacular landscape of Classic Cowboy Charisma.

In Another Good Year, Mark Keathley captures a defining moment as the sun draws to a close and the magnificent beasts stroll along the desert-scape, back dropped by the majestic hues of the painterly plateau ranges. Reminiscent of the Native Sun with a certain signature Contemporary Western Art integrity, Keathley delivers a painting that nails the undying love and nostalgia for the Cowboy epoch.

Measuring a hefty 30 x 40”, this symbolic scene of Texas pride radiates an impressive grandeur of romanticized rustic living- A must have for any serious Contemporary Western Art Collector.

The foreground gives life to painterly perfections, dry brush and vegetation so real that they scrape our legs as we walk out to meet these herdsmen. The earthy hues of the prickly pear, gyp, chino grama, and others showcase a muted color palette that is toned-down purposefully to make the illuminated mountain ranges glow with a surreal serenity.

The horizon line, a necessity in the landscape genre, is a valuable asset in this particular painting. Keathley never really shows the point where the sky touches the plains. He hides it with a clever intention of drawing attention to the meandering herd of Longhorn cattle. The bovine enter into the picture plane from the right, an outer edge of a large cattle drive. The dust from thousands of cattle hooves mix into the lingering light of overcast desert heavens. Four beasts meet our gaze as we assess their temperament. Corralled by a master, the red-shirted cowboy dictates their movements and steers them to the left; meeting up with the guiding eye of the distinguished silvery gaucho.

The vertical elements of the Saguaro Cactus draw our eye up and into the foothills and point toward the squared-off peaks of the distant ranges. The mauve, peach, blush and pink soils compliment the cattle hide markings and color pigmentations. Unclouded areas of teal firmament highlight the over expansive Texas sky, peeking out like transcendent eyes; observing a symbolic scene of nostalgic simplicity. 

 ©Gabriel Diego Delgado

Another Good Year

Mark Keathley

Oil on Canvas

30 x 40"

$8500

To purchase call @10-828-8214

JR Mooney Galleries of Fine Art

Mark Keathley - Second Saturday Art Crawl Boerne, Texas

-Mark Keathley is honored at J.R. Mooney Galleries- May 2013 Second Saturday events.

After being awarded the “Artist Patron Award” at the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s Night of the Artist exhibition, Keathley lets loose with a metaphysical trichotomy of new paintings at J.R. Mooney Galleries.

Frio Hues, Oil on Canvas

--- COME SEE ONE OF THE BEST CONTEMPORARY WESTERN PAINTERS OF OUR TIME!!!- MARK KEATHLEY

Known more as a nostalgic landscape and scenery painter, Mark has done some amazing work painting and illustrating the Native Americans, Old West, Texas Wildlife as well as an abundance of other subjects and genres. Mark Keathley’s evocative sensibilities are hammered home with lively landscapes and nostalgic pictorial epiphanies of Western Cowboy and Native American cultural identity.  Keathley’s painterly essence is found in his quasi-hyper realism.  Capturing water ripples, muscle contours, textures and various other details, Keathley proves that Contemporary Western Art is making significant contributions to the Art World. 

In the early 1990’s, he entered a couple of paintings in the Cheyenne, Wyoming “Old West Museum Show” and won a couple of awards for his work. He also attended the “Texas Ranger Hall of Fame Art Show” in Waco Texas and twice won the “Popular Vote Award” for a couple of his pieces two years in a row.

Another Good Year, Oil on Canvas

Mark is able to capture that perfect moment that you might experience on a hike through the mountains when a majestic elk might come out for an unforgettable experience; or even immortalize on canvas a moment in time when the light, the water, and the gentle involvement of a man and his horse all come together in a masterful composition…This is where he wants you to stay - not admiring his ability, but rather inspired to live.   -www.markkeathley.com

Who:

Contemporary Western Artist, Mark Keathley

What:

Second Saturday Art Walk- May 2013

When:

Saturday, May 11, 2013 4 pm – 8 pm

Where:

J. R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art

305 S. Main St. Boerne, Texas 78006