Contemporary Southwest & Social Commentary Paintings and Drawings
Barbar Palmer, watercolor artist. Styles include floral and Southwestern themed paintings.
Drawings and paintings by artist and retired art teacher Barry Farmer.
Beth Ames Swartz has had over 70 one-person art exhibitions including a solo show at The Jewish Museum in New York as well as three major traveling museum exhibitions. She received the Governor's Individual Artist Award in 2001 in Arizona, and a retrospective of her work was mounted in 2002 at The Phoenix Art Museum, with a monograph about her work co-published by The Phoenix Art Museum and Hudson Hills Press. Swartz was honored in New York in 2003 by the Veteran Feminists of America for her outstanding contribution to the Arts nationally.
As a self-taught acrylics artist, Beth has achieved International recognition. Locally, Beth’s success comes in the form of exhibition, commissions, sales, and development grants.
Beth's art is viewed as a creative journey or process. Ordinary and extra-ordinary, visionary and modern, her art engaging every step along the way.
I enjoy photographing architecture, nature, and people, including fine art nudes. I love taking pictures in urban environments as well, especially old buildings and dilapidated industrial scenes. Shooting street scenes and candid people photos are also among my favorites. My eye is more drawn toward subjects that are darker and grittier, rather than traditionally beautiful and colorful imagery. Much of my work tends to be more abstract.
For many years I had my own darkroom and worked exclusively with black and white film. Even for nature photography, I find black and white to be the ideal medium. One can never capture nature as the eye sees it anyway, and black and white is an abstraction of reality by default. Now that I have switched to digital photography, I do color photography more than in the past but I still enjoy black and white.
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