July 16, 2013

Robert Ensor Sculpture

                                                                            Chastidy
                                                                     Chief Sambo
                                                                         Godspeak
                                                            Monsanto Yellowhead Tuna
                                                                 My Ships come In

July 5, 2013

July 4th - work from Freedom

a SEA Gallery has taken on four wonderful, new artists:  joining Robert Ensor in the Outsider Art category is Bill Kaderly whom I learned about through an article in the May THE Magazine.  I drove to Gila, NM  last weekend and saw Bill's gallery/studio/home  which should qualify as a museum with fascinating creatures everywhere one  looked, made from stones, branches and even some modern stuff that is sprayed from a can  and has the look of cactus when finished: snakes, persons, birds, cats. One hallmark of "Outsider" along with self-taught, talented, acute sense of color, beauty and line, etc. is obsessiveness:  the is no end to the  number and variety of beings inhabiting Kaderly's space.  I brought back a couple of dozen pieces,  attempting a definitive selection and it is good and representative, but there is so much more
   Liz Pawlak, a painter retired from a more economically calculable career  has embarked on narrative paintings addressing  global warming.   Susan Jay's beautiful  Retables are well know from the days of Guadalupe Gallery; working with tin and copper, her frames are totally part of the art work.   Anne Russell's   small elegant figurative ceramic sculptures are a perfect fit for the gallery, and so now  we are complete!