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A native Texan, Perez learned to draw while copying the antics of 1950's TV cartoon characters and nearby farm animals. He admired artists such as Charles Russell, Frederic Remington and Will James. Perez's 24 years in the Air Force provided opportunities to visit European museums, reviving his desire to be a painter. He focused on landscape and western painting when he returned to Colorado. In recent years, Perez has concentrated on fantastic and comical works, and is in collections throughout the world.
One of New Mexico's recognized Impressionists, Chrisman pushes into a broader realm of colorist expressionism, painting 'ala prima'. In New York City she earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and a degree in illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology. A Signature Member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, she has been featured in Millicent Rogers Museum and Zion National Park, Southwest Art Magazine, Cowboys and Indians Magazine, Focus Santa Fe, Taos News, and New Mexico Magazine.
Growing up in rural New Mexico, earning a degree in Theater Arts, Rod Hubble began a career in painting in 1973. His work started as fantasy in more decorative acrylics and watercolors, then prolifically in oil. He moved to plein air pure landscape, at times including romantic figures . In 1990 he began a career in gallery art sales in Taos and Santa Fe. In 2003 he moved to Farmington where he teaches at San Juan College and has resumed his plein air painting.
Now living in Corrales and having attended the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, earning an undergraduate degree at Oklahoma Baptist University and a Master's of Art at the University of New Mexico, where he taught for two years, Perkinson became a full time painter in 1970. Early works included landscapes, still lifes and city scenes, later exploring surrealistic large-scale works then southwestern landscape. He is included in museums nationally, private collections internationally, and in "Landscapes of New Mexico, Paintings From the Land of Enchantment".
A practicing artist since her school days, Mary Carroll Nelson holds a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a M.A. in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. She has taught first grade and art for 23 years and mentored for 12 years. In 1982 she founded The Society of Layerists in Multi-Media. Mary Carroll is the author of several hundred articles, 16 books, and co-author of others on art, American Indians, metaphysics and crop circles.
Russ Ball holds a BFA degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, and later took graduate courses at UNM in painting and printmaking. Enchanted with New Mexico landscape, Russ moved to New Mexico after release from the Army. In 1977 he toured Europe and worked with teachers and students at the Art Academy of Athens. He is known for his paintings of birds and Dalmatians, large surreal paintings of harlequins and dreamlike “horsewomen”. He painted the official 2006 poster for the Balloon Fiesta and is well known for his illustrations in the Albuquerque Journal.
Melinda Beavers is a Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA) Signature Member and Merit Award recipient. Her fine art illustrations have taken top honors at many prominent shows and juried competitions, including Masterworks of New Mexico and the CPSA Annual International Exhibitions, as well as being featured in print publications. In 2001, Melinda cofounded internationally recognized Tangerine Café Design Group and is an active member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), editing their newsletter since 2009.
Elzbieta Kaleta was born and educated in Krakow, Poland. She earned a Ph.D. in biology followed by postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School. Elzbieta creates strong mixed media art with paper cutouts and collages. Using handmade papers, each detail is cut freehand with scissors, and applied in several layers with paints and calligraphy. In numerous collections throughout the world, she does special com-missions and public art projects, and is recipient of several grants from the New Mexico Arts Division. Her art is shown in numerous publications, and fine art exhibitions nationwide and abroad.
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