Join J. R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art as
they partner with San Antonio’s Plaza
Club for a joint celebration of Texas and San Antonio with a fine art
exhibition titled: “Texas Size
Celebration”for the March/ April 2014 Art in the Plaza
Free Public Opening for “Texas
Size Celebration”:
MARCH 10, 2014 5:30
PM – 8: 00 PM
Located just
minutes from the River Walk and the Alamo, Plaza Club is where the leaders of
San Antonio gather for business and social networking.
March/
April 2014 Art in the Plaza will
focus on a curatorial selection of JR Mooney Gallery artists whose work
epitomizes the integrity of Texas Vintage, Texas Impressionism, as well as
Contemporary Western. JR Mooney
Galleries of Fine Art is proud to showcase legendary artists like Randy Peyton,
Arthur McCall, Cliff Cavin, Warren Hunter, W.A. Slaughter, Bill Scheidt, Sidney
Sinclair, among others for the March/ April 2014 Art in the Plaza.
Who:
J.R.
Mooney Galleries of Fine Art, Plaza Club
What:
“Texas Size
Celebration”, Art in the Plaza fine art
exhibition
When:
Monday,
March 10, 2014, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Free
and open to the Public
Where:
Plaza
Club
100
W. Houston
Frost Bank Tower, 21st Floor
San Antonio, TX 78205
210.227.4191
Randy Peyton:
Randy Peyton represents the new cohort of Texas
Landscape Painters; leading a post Onderdonk generation of Bluebonnet
Bounty. Peyton has captured the Texas
landscape like a scenic shaman, creating emotional and nostalgic reminiscences
of days nurtured by the Texas heat- causing the viewer to relax in an art
induced medicinal meditation.” Randy Peyton was born in San Antonio, Texas, in
1958. At the age of fifteen he began his quest in painting the endless
landscapes of Texas; favoring the bluebonnet. Peyton considers himself a
self-taught artist; having meticulously studied the paintings of Robert Wood,
Porfirio Salinas, Don Warren, W. A. Slaughter, and many other regional
landscape masters.
Arthur
McCall:
Hidden
in the backwoods of our nostalgic memory lies a dormant thought awakened by a
quick jolt of visual appeasement. Arthur McCall is one such artist that has
that ability to stimulate our reminiscent reflections of our ancestors.
Described as a painter of “Nostalgic landscapes”, Arthur depicts country-time
scenes that hearken back to the times of a pre-industrial era; a rugged living
dictated by the seasons not the clock, farmhouses before factory farming and
open communities before gated ones. A retired
Game Warden for the state of Texas, Arthur spent most of his adult life
outside, dealing with farmhands, poachers, cowboys, immigrants, hunters, and
“good ol’ country boys”. This genial
living taught Arthur many life lessons, but everything about his stoic
profession shaped who he was and who he became. An armed artist with a
charismatic lifestyle that mirrors his ability to capture the Texas terrain,
Arthur used his camera daily to record the likings he saw while in the field.
He illustrates a sense of trouble-free days, ones on which you cannot help but
stop and watch the quail feed in the scattered underbrush.
Cliff
Cavin:
Cliff
Cavin, a San Antonio painter, finds comfort and freedom in traditional
Impressionistic Landscape Painting. Focusing his attentions to the vast
openness of the South Texas region and the ever expanding deserts of New
Mexico, Cavin’s intuitive choreographed artistic calculations in his scenic and
visual color Soirées create
stylized paintings that capture the ambiance of subtle environmental
illuminations. Cavin
is a purist, dedicated to the capturing of light, of atmosphere, of
sub-stratospheric heavens. This
painterly alchemy and impressionistic rendition captures this ideal moment in
time.
Warren
Hunter:
Warren
Hunter left behind a collection of artwork that portrayed Texas as it was.
Looking back on his life and career, he represented a full range of artistic
expression, including woodblock and linoleum prints, typesetting, oil and
watercolor painting, commercial illustration, and the forgotten art of copper
etching. He taught both commercial and graphic art. He was the first dean of
the San Antonio Art Institute. His art school was the training ground for a
host of Texas artists. His paintings hang in the Alamo and the San Jacinto
Monument. His works are in the Smithsonian Institution, the White House, and
many private collections. Warren Hunter was an extraordinary Texan dedicated to
teaching and making art. His ability to capture the beauty of our state has
left us with a great legacy of artistic creation.
W.A.
Slaughter:
W.
A. Slaughter grew up in Texas amid the splendor and beauty of the Hill Country.
The serene landscape and rolling hills near his home in San Antonio were early
sources of inspiration for his developing artistic ability. His love of
nature manifested itself in other ways, as well; in 1952, after eight years of
intense training, Slaughter was ordained a Lutheran minister. Upon his return
from Mexico, Slaughter began to exhibit his work with the Artists and Craftsmen
Association of Dallas. In 1972, Slaughter dedicated himself entirely to
painting. Although a wide variety of landscapes inspire Bill Slaughter, it is
the gentle beauty of the Texas Hill Country that truly speaks to him. His
canvases of fields of bluebonnets and stately oak trees evoke memories of
quieter times.
Bill
Scheidt:
Bill
Scheidt is a level 5 certified Texas Professional Farrier (a specialist
in equine hoof care, including the trimming, balancing and the
placing of shoes on their hooves), and is a member of the Texas
Professional Farriers Association.
Interestingly, Bill Scheidt worked the horse route around Boerne from
1971 till about 1987, and still resides in Boerne. He was also the Farrier for
what was previous - Fair Oaks Ranch, before it was a gated community on I-10
known as the same name. He has studied at the Scottsdale Artists School; taken
workshops with: artist, Roy Andersen; CAA artist, Joe Beeler; CAA artist, Jim
Norton; CAA artist, R. S. Riddick and Bruce Greene; and attended various other
Cowboy Artists of America workshops.
Bill Scheidt is also a Signature Member of the Artists for Conservation
Foundation, “Supporting wildlife and habitat conservation, biodiversity,
sustainability, and environmental education through art that celebrates our
natural heritage.” Bill Scheidt is a
current or former member of the American Plains Artists, Oil Painters of
America and has exhibited in the Museum of Western Art. Bill has won numerous awards at shows
including best oil painting and people’s choice. Shows include: The Mountain
Oyster Club in Tucson, Arizona; The Phippen Western Art Show in Prescott,
Arizona; The Peppertree Art Show in Santa Ynez, California; The Alamo Kiwanis
Western Invitational in San Antonio, Texas, The Roundup and Collectors Classic
in Kerrville Texas and Shows by the Texas Wild Bunch, Professional Artists.
Sidney
Sinclair:
Sidney
earned her Bachelors of Arts Degree at Trinity University in San Antonio,
Texas, with a short stint at the Warren Hunter School of Art in Texas. This fourth generation Texan has studied with
international, national, and regional artists. Sidney studied watercolor under
Darrell Trott of Australia, and oil painting with artists David Leffel and
Gregg Kruetz of the Art Student League in New York City; rounding out a stellar
academic course of still life and portraiture with artist nationally recognized
galleriest and Western Painter, Jay Hester of Highland House Gallery, Boerne,
Sidney`s work has appeared in American Art Review, Country Lifestyle, and Food
& Leisure magazines. She has shown at the Alamo Kiwanis Annual Invitational
Art Show, the Western Art Invitational, and the Texas Hill Country Invitational
at Tapatio Springs Resort, the Boerne Parade of Artists, and the annual Art
Walk in San Antonio. Sidney was featured at the Bright Shawl, participated in
the American Heart Association fundraiser, and One Woman Shows in San Antonio,
Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sidney`s work is collected by art collectors
throughout the United States and Europe. Feathery
wisps of painterly attributes lick the canvas, driven by nameless afflictions
as Sidney Sinclair delivers an artistic pseudo-epitaph of sorts with a muted
palette of color that lays claim to a new beginning – an aesthetically purposeful
jump off from a road well-traveled, previously versed in despair, sickness and
recovery and onto an new awaking; full of life. She gives us prize paintings
via new outlooks —a hazy dreamland of internal psychology.
J. R. Mooney
Galleries of Fine Art / 8302 Broadway / San Antonio, TX. 78209 / 210.828.8214
