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POTTERY PAINTER IN THE VILLAGE
Village Gallery guest artist, Alice Hickey is featured this month, with an opening recep- tion on September 1, from 5-8PM. Refreshments will be served, and visitors are invited to view the works of Ms. Hickey, acclaimed watercolor artist whose career spans over 30 years.
Ms. Hickey first began studying art at the age of five and attended art school at Peoples Art Center in St. Louis, Missouri every summer. She worked as a technical illustrator for Motorola in Phoenix, taught art at Yavapai College for ten years, and had her work shown nationally and internationally.
For her show at the Village Gallery, Ms. Hickey is displaying pottery paintings, some of which she first displayed in 1980 at the Windrush Gallery in Sedona. She also exhibited her art on Fifth Avenue in Scottsdale, and has been a regular contributor to Fons and Porter, McCall’s Magazine, Angels on Earth, Precott Woman, Art Acquisitor, New York Magazine, and Better Homes & Gardens. Ms. Hickey has designed fabric for Westminster Fibers that has sold worldwide, and she claims to have a painting in a millionaire’s home in California, hanging next to his Van Gogh.
Ms. Hickey has shown in Chelsea, New York for the last 15 years, and wonders why she’s not great yet. She has shown at the River Road Show in Baton Rouge; the Historical Art Museum in Cordova, Alaska; the Mother Load Show in California; Art Fusion in Miami; and the International Art Exhibit in Sea Cliff, New York. Her work is also at Jerona Cafe and the 101 Winery in Cottonwood, Arizona.
She designs her own compositions using Hohokam symbols, strong lines, and vivid color. Says the artist: “I don’t want my pottery paintings to look like anyone else’s ... It’s all about ideas, of course.”
The Village Gallery is located at 6512 State Route 179 in the Village of Oak Creek just south of Sedona. SedonaLocalArtists.com
JEROME ARTWALK SEPTEMBER
Jerome Art Walk
continues its mo-
mentum on Sep-
tember 2 with its
First Saturday cel-
ebration of art. Twen-
ty-five galleries and
studios will be open
from 5-8PM with art,
music and refresh-
ments. This free event
has become a Verde
Valley favorite with a shuttle that transports art aficionados from the artist-filled Old Jerome High School, up to the center of town with The Lincoln Gallery and Made in Jerome Pottery and everything in-between. The holiday weekend is the perfect time to enjoy late night dinner hours at Jerome’s great restaurants, enjoy some live music and maybe spend the night.
It is going to be exciting at Made in Jerome Pottery with Don Lash demonstrating pre- historic-style pottery-making to the music of Hall and the Howlers, the ultimate undulat- ing ukulele band. Mr. Lash’s hand-coiled pottery is created using symbols and designs bor-
rowed from ancient pottery, reflecting styles from across the Four Corners region over 1000 years ago. Hanna Flagg will show her new work in paperclay and glass and Jane Moore will have a fresh batch of her beautifully decorated cups, plates and bowls.
Patrick Lincoln moved to Jerome 20 years ago and started using a camera and a com- puter to paint. In those years, his work has evolved into a neo-impressionist-post-Dadaists- surrealist-exhibi-
tionist style. A mem-
ber of the Jerome
Artist’s Cooperative
for eight years be-
fore opening The
Lincoln Gallery ten
years ago, Patrick is
proud that in all his
10 years in the 30+
artist co-op, not one
assault charge was
ever lodged against
him. Mr. Lincoln’s
work ranges from
landscapes of the
Southwest to ab-
stract to figurative to the surreal. The 69-year-old artist has been a soldier, a sailor in the merchant marines, a cowpuncher and horse breaker, a cabdriver, an ICU nurse, a member of Big Brothers of America, and is a Vietnam Veteran. He has written two chapbooks of poetry and read them in English, in Ireland and the United States. His work can be seen at The Lincoln Gallery, 110 Main Street, Suite 3 in Jerome. Take the outside staircase at The New State Motor Building across the street from Grapes. The Lincoln Gallery is open 7 days a week (usually) from 10AM until 4:30PM (usually) and Mr. Lincoln can usually be found there along with a mini-museum, a glass sculptor (Mark Lucas), a music store (Tommy Rocks), a ceramic artist (Janie Layers), an Intuitive consultant (Renee Johanna) and a Tour Company (Tours of Jerome).Cody DeLong has been hard at work creating a new series of paintings called ”Ghost Town Impressions.” This new body of Jerome paintings is more textural and has a gritty feeling that shows off the aging qualities of the town’s buildings. Mr. DeLong says, “I love the patina of the old trucks that get around here (and I’m not talking about the tourists, hey-oh!) ... the buildings also get more character with age, and I’m trying to show that in this new body of work.” He continues, “I feel like I’ve had a breakthrough with this new work, and I’m very excited about it.” Enjoy live jazz by Duane Ewing.
On the evening of September 2, the doors of Threads On Main: A Pura Vida Gallery will open to wild fanfare. Located in the beautifully restored Sullivan Apartments building and home for many years of the popular Designs On You, Threads On Main will continue the tradi- tion of offering locals and tourists alike a variety of women’s fashions, accessories and home décor items. As with Pura Vida Gallery, owners Michael Gamble and Danny Burris are filling the new store with mainly American made and American handcrafted items. This soft open- ing on the evening of the Art Walk will give customers an idea of the quality of inventory that will continue to fill the store in the coming weeks. Join the “Pura Vida Gang” in welcoming their newest retail destination in Jerome with a wine and cheese open house from 5-8PM.
Zen Mountain Gallery is a collection of over 30 local artists, including fine art, jewelry and pottery with a contemporary and contemplative emphasis. The gallery has new Chi- nese ink paintings on rice paper from Muijoo Wee, an artist who epitomizes a style of paint- ing with minimal brush strokes that are extremely expressive. She describes her work as a free and loose style, which conveys movement and energy, “an impression of the spiritual essence of the ordinary.” Her cat paintings have consistently been a favorite in the gallery and ZMG’s owners invite guests for a glass of wine to meet some of the artists, who are apt to come and go throughout the evening, as artists do.
Stop by Gallery 527 on Lower Main Street for an evening of beautiful art by 12 local art- ists. Always a great party, good food, wine, and conversation are the norm in this small but qualityspace. SharronVincentPortercontinuesher‘SticksandStones’show. Ms.Porter’s acrylic textured landscapes, which she likes to call “Landstracts,” are inspired by her move to the Southwest. Slightly abstracted, with rock-like textured surfaces, the resulting paintings appear to focus on the sheer visual and tactile qualities of experience. Somehow, however, they also exude an undeniably anthropomorphic feeling: close-ups of rocks, trees, water, twigs, caves, interestingly arranged, in an emotive relationship with each other and the light in which they bathe. The rich textures, heightened colors, and often the inclusion of rocks and branches, make the experience of viewing them visceral. Ms. Porter sees this in- tense physicality as a potential distraction from the spiritual dimension, so often she seeks to portray what she describes as “routes of escape” in her compositions, little “shelterings” from this intensely physical plane. In the end, what is achieved is a vision of nature that is phenomenal, personal, and yet spiritual. Lorraine Fexas, Kathy Teal, Ardis Harsche, Ben Roti, Susan Pitcairn and Donna and Ken Chesler will all be on hand to discuss their art.
For more information, JeromeArtWalk.com
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