BOERNE
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
--Gabriel Diego Delgado, Gallery Director, J.R. Mooney
Galleries-Boerne
gabrield@jrmooneygalleries.com / 830.816.5106
Join
the J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art - Boerne on Saturday March 19, 2016 from
4 pm to 8 pm for an exciting evening of Fine Art in “Switch
36.” The artworks in “Switch
36” are a curated selection of new paintings by local and regional
artists from San Antonio and Boerne including Margie Barker, Seth Camm, Cliff
Cavin, Bill Scheidt, Sidney Sinclair, and Russell Stephenson.
(Boerne,
TX, Jan. 14, 2016)
“Switch 36”
New Year / New Work
New
artwork is always so exciting! Artists have been known to covet new art for
their upcoming exhibitions at their galleries, hoping to garner abundant
anticipated affection for their ‘fresh off the easel’ creations. For the first major 2016 exhibition at J.R.
Mooney Galleries of Fine Art-Boerne, our art consultant staff has diligently
selected six new paintings from six artists’ studios to arrive at 36 new
artworks for the ultimate Beginning of the
New Year exhibition. Current gallery practices frequently grant artists one
solo exhibition each year at their particular galleries to spotlight their new
art. But, in “Switch
36”, we break the rules!
J.R. Mooney Galleries combines this annual exhibition
tradition to include 6 of its own artists; granting opportunity to showcase
recent creations in a group exhibition setting; narrated under a conceptual
connotation of six solo exhibitions combined into one dynamic night!
‘Switching’ the galleries inventory of artwork to reflect the new and exciting
endeavors some of our artists are currently exploring in their respective
studios.
Margie
Barker
is inspired by her love of the land. She has painted everything from New Mexico
aspens to the Grand Canyon’s majesty but it is to the flora and fauna of Texas
that her brush irresistibly returns. Her oils, watercolors, and acrylics have
won her a host of awards.
Seth
Camm received his formal art training
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his MFA. Afterwards
his studies continued with master figurative painter Nelson Shanks and then to
Norway to study with eminent painter Odd Nerdrum. Camm has had many one-man
shows and received many awards for his art, of recent distinction the San
Antonio Art League Museum’s Artist of the Year of 2014.
Cliff
Cavin,
an artistic purist guided by a time-honored aesthetic principle and mentored by
great painters like Warren Hunter, George Hughey, William Reese and Wilson
Hurley. 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 expansive 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.
Bill Scheidt began his artistic career as a painter in 1987. Largely self-taught, he has studied at the
Scottsdale Artists School, as well as with Roy Andersen, Joe Beeler, Jim
Norton, R. S. Riddick and Bruce Greene in Cowboy Artists of America
workshops. His subject matter includes
North American wildlife, the Native American and the life of the cowboy. Bill has won numerous coveted awards and
significant group exhibitions 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
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 painting under Darryl Trott of Australia,
and oil painting with artists David Leffel and Gregg Kruetz of the Art Student
League in New York City, among many other notables; rounding out a stellar
academic course of still life and portraiture with nationally recognized gallerist
and western painter,
Jay Hester. Sidney`s work has appeared
in American Art Review, Country Lifestyle, Food & Leisure magazines, Boerne
Business Monthly Magazine, San Antonio Woman Magazine, and Plumage-TX Magazine.
Russell
Stephenson
is a Texas artist and a regionally well-recognized contemporary painter with
gallery representation in five Texas galleries, including Houston, Amarillo, San
Antonio, Boerne and Dallas, with representation in Santa Fe since 2015. Stephenson has mastered an unrelenting
painterly approach to the gorgeous godliness of our great state of Texas.
Radiant browns and various tones of burnt sienna seem to meddle perfectly with
contrasting cool slate grays, snowy silvers and wispy whites; where atmospheric
amalgamations of colors are ever approachable, digestible and delicate in their
ephemeral and abstracted beauty. Bastrop
fires, unrelenting skylines, sublime mentalities, conceptual collectiveness,
universal experiences, mental constructs and intuitive automatism all play a
role in Russell Stephenson’s paintings. A tribute to the Texas sky, the flat plains of
Midland-Odessa area, the rolling Hill Country, and the wide-open plains of the
Texas Panhandle topography, Stephenson depicts all that is our great state of
Texas in minimally rendered but systematically charged abstracted landscapes.
ABOUT J.R. MOONEY GALLERIES OF FINE ART
J.R.
Mooney Galleries of Fine Art is a full service Fine Art Retail Gallery,
specializing in Texas Vintage, Local & Regional, and Contemporary Art;
coupled with a world renowned custom frame shop.
J.R.
Mooney Galleries of Fine Art was founded in San Antonio, Texas in 1947 by Joe
and Adelle Mooney. Emerging as Modern Paint Company in 1947, with the largest
selection of professional artist grade art supplies in San Antonio, the Mooney
family eventually expanded their business.
Modern Paint Company became J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art to
showcase local, regional and international artists while diving into custom
framing, artist representation and other unique attributes. J.R. Mooney Galleries of Fine Art has an
identity reflective of over a half-century existence, becoming custom framing
experts and specializing in an array of museum quality art services. J.R. Mooney Galleries is currently providing
fine art services at their signature Broadway address in San Antonio and at their
Boerne location. J.R. Mooney Galleries
of Fine Art has provided framing services for every American President since
John Kennedy and every Texas Governor since John Connally. The galleries have
also supplied the Vatican, the Royal Palace in Madrid, Queen Beatrix of
Holland, as well as major collections and collectors in Europe, Asia, South
America and Australia.
J.R.
Mooney Galleries of Fine Art
8302
Broadway St.
San
Antonio, TX 78209
(210)
828-8214
&
305
S. Main St
Boerne,
TX 78006
(830)
816-5106
Gallery
Hours: San Antonio – Mon. – Sat. 10 am – 6 pm / Boerne – Tues. – Sat. 10 am – 5
pm
Admission
is open to the public and FREE
Who:
J.R.
Mooney Galleries of Fine Art, Boerne
What:
“Switch 36” (New
Year / New Art)
When:
March
19, 2016 4 pm – 8 pm
Where:
JR
Mooney Galleries, Boerne
305
S. Main St., Boerne, TX 78006 ph. 830-816-5106
