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Large Fine Arts Division Judge Wilson Hurley
Wilson Hurley was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He
received a law degree from George Washington University, and for the
next 13 years Wilson Hurley practiced law in Albuquerque. While drafting
a will for a terminally ill young doctor in 1964 he asked himself what
he would do if he had only 18 months to live. "Paint one really good
painting," was the answer Wilson Hurley gave himself. Wilson Hurley
closed his law practice and became a full-time artist. He is best known
for his canvases of broad vistas and feels his best work is done on a
scale larger than most painters like to work. Among the many highlights
of his career is the five year undertaking of painting 5 triptychs for
the Sam Noble Center at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City. The
five centerpieces of each triptych measure 16’ x
16’ and the ten side pieces are each 16’ x 10’. Hurley has over 1200
paintings in private and corporatecollections throughout the USA.
Large Fine Arts Division Jurors
Jim Asher
Jim Asher attended Central Missouri University on an
art scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. He then
earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Art Center College of
Design in Los Angeles,
California. His many exhibitions include The National Museum of Taiwan,
The Royal Watercolor Society of London as well as throughout the United
States. In 2006 he was a featured artist at the Gilcrease Museum’s
Rendezvous
show. Asher has been profiled in many art magazines and other
prestigious publications and has written articles for The Artist’s
Magazine and Watercolor Magic. He was the featured cover artist for
Watercolor Handbook, June 2003 issue.
Christopher Mead
Christopher Mead has taught since 1980 at the
University of New Mexico, where he holds a joint faculty appointment in
the School of Architecture and Planning and the College of Fine Arts. He
is currently a Presidential Teaching Fellow and Dean of the College of
Fine Arts. He received his BA summa cum laude from the University
of California at Riverside, and both his MA and PhD from the University
of Pennsylvania. A past President of the Society of Architectural
Historians, he has written and lectured widely on French and American
architecture and urbanism, including books on the architects Robert
Venturi, Bart Prince, Charles Garnier, and a forthcoming
monograph on Victor Baltard.
Anita Louise West
Anita Louise West studied art throughout high school
and college, receiving her BA in Art at the University of Missouri. She
continued post graduate work painting on a scholarship at the Kansas
City Art Institute and earned her teaching certificate. After working in
watermedia for fourteen years, she has returned to her first love, oils.
Concurrently she is also expanding into the medium of pastel. Having won
first place at the Mill Ave Exhibition in Tempe, Arizona and numerous
other awards, Anita Louise co-authored a book, Painting the Pastel
Landscape. She also participates in the Oil Painters of America shows
and has been a featured artist at the Pasadena California Art Material
Expo.
Miniature Fine Arts Division Judge Jan Keefer
Jan Keefer holds a BS in
Secondary Education and Art from Montana State. She is an award winning
artist portraying the world realistically and as beautifully as possible
both on the large scale and in miniature. It is her desire that people
will see the beautiful in what is often ordinary. She has found the
making of art totally absorbing and enjoyable. Her principle media are
oil and pastel, but her experience includes mixed media, graphite,
charcoal, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink, and murals. Jan is known for
her classes, workshops, etc., including those on miniature scale. She is
a member of Oil Painters of America, The New Mexico Pastel Society, Rio
Grande Artist Association and Artist Collaborative. Her work can be seen
at Concetta D. Gallery in Albuquerque and the Chumani Gallery in Madrid,
NM.
Miniature Fine Arts Division Jurors
Leo
Neufeld’s background comes from a BFA at the University of
Wisconsin, the Art Students League of NewYork, the National Academy of
Design in New York and the American Academy of Art in Chicago. His style
can be described at a Contemporary American Realist. Leo’s teaching
experiences include the National Academy of Design
and the New York Academy of Art, the New Mexico Art League, The
Indianapolis Art League and the Harwood Art Center. He has won many
awards and fellowships throughout his career. His work can be found in
museum collections and galleries across the country.
Carole Pallister
is an Auburn University graduate who has lived around the world learning
to focus her artistic skills on technical expertise and versatility of
medium. This was necessary to meet each new project with confidence,
whether the subject was a portrait, an architectural rendering, a wall
mural, or a landscape. It was also a natural
progression to painting miniatures. Her work can be found in many
public, private and corporate collections as well as the permanent
collection of the Florida Senate. She balances her time between
paintings miniatures, large landscapes and part-time managing of a
gallery in Angel Fire.
Mary Sundstrom’s
education includes a BFA from the University of New Mexico, Advance
Studies at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and Graduate Studies
in Museum Practices at UNM. She has illustrated 18
Children’s books, a supplement for Highlight’s for Children and a museum
exhibit display and painting ‘bone patina’ on a sixteen foot Stegosaurus
skeleton. She is the 2006 recipient of the Rachel Allen Printer
Fellowship. She currently designs cut paper collages for her business,
Paper Cuts, and is represented by New Grounds Print Shop in Albuquerque.
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