Summer classes are starting this week. Oil Painting – beginning to advanced All skill levels – Ages 16-and up Wednesdays – 6:30-9:00pm My summer oil painting class will start tomorrow. This is a studio class for learning and practicing the fundamentals of painting from observation in oil. The class is ongoing with monthly enrollment, so […]
Author: Jean Wilkey
Green curtain step by step
Green Curtain is the painting currently on display in the Adobe-Patio Gallery in Mesilla, NM for the Border Artists show, Botanica. Here are a few in-progress shots of the work. I’ve never posted in-progress pics before and they weren’t really done at equally distant points in the process, but perhaps it will give you an […]
Painting demo with Russian easel
Two weeks ago I did a quick painting demo at the Botanica show along with Tauna Cole Dorn. There’s a gorgeous plant in the courtyard at the Adobe-Patio Gallery, the name of which escapes me, that has brilliant pink blooms. Quinacridone magenta blooms! The setup I used is a Yarka Russian Field Easel meant for […]
Border Artists’ Botanica show opens
The Botanica show opened tonight at the Adobe-Patio Gallery in Mesilla, NM. It’s an exhibition of the work of members of the Border Artists. Here are a few photos from the opening. Top left, Janice Cook; top right, Tauna Cole-Dorn, Isadora Stowe, & Jean Reece Wilkey; Bottom left, reception; Bottom right, singer-songwriter, Tiffany Christopher. Green […]
Watching David Kassan paint makes me want to be a better painter, or what I did over spring break
Watching David Jon Kassan paint makes me want to be a better painter. A week ago I returned home from a workshop with Kassan at the Scottsdale Artists School in Arizona. David is a talented artist and a great teacher. He is very open, self effacing and generously shares what he knows with his students. If […]
Mary and Joseph installation at Williams Gallery
MARY AND JOSEPH, by Jean Reece Wilkey, fabric, wood, paint, glass, ceramic, clips, twine, fruit. 2012/13 The faculty triennial exhibition, In This Corner, opened today at the Williams Gallery at New Mexico State University. Curated by author, educator, curator Linda Weintraub, she asked the artists to focus on the corners of the gallery in creating the […]
Praxis members in Panorama magazine
The Panorama magazine published Gabriella D. Ferrari’s article, “Alumni, artists form Praxis Collective.” We were interviewed at the time of the collective art installation Indra’s Net at the Las Cruces Museum of Art, but the Fall issue was just released recently. Rob Yee spent a couple of hours taking photos. It’s certainly not easy to photograph this […]
Last week of Out of Place exhibit
For anyone in the area who hasn’t made it out to the show yet, there is still time. The show is up through next Saturday. Several of the pieces in the show have dark backgrounds. That’s because I went a little crazy with the new paint color I got from the Vasari Classic Oil Color grant. […]
Entropy
I’m interested in how people in the Western world relate to nature and how many of us are distanced from it in our everyday life; insulated from it by a built environment. We try to control it in various ways, such as in the structure we impose on it to create formal gardens – corsetting […]
“Out of Place” opening at Unsettled Gallery
Yesterday brought cooler weather and much needed rain just in time for the opening of Out of Place at the Unsettled Gallery in Las Cruces, NM; a two person exhibition by Jenni Higginbotham and myself. About ten of my pieces in the show are images of bird nests atop various man-made bases, containing unexpected objects. […]
Last day of Indra’s Net
Yesterday was the final day of the Indra’s Net exhibition. Artwork by Jean Reece Wilkey at Indra’s Net Many people saw the show during the five weeks it was up and most of the artists were there late morning to talk about the work with the last of the visitors. Thanks to everyone who helped and everyone […]
Indra’s Net opening reception
We had a grand opening reception for Indra’s Net at the Las Cruces Museum of Art last Friday night. Several hundred people passed through and saw the work and enjoyed the live music performance. You can see images of the reception on the Praxis Collectiveblog but I’m posting a few more here. Indra’s net installation […]