Martinis & Masterpieces showcases local artists' MASTERPIECES and celebrity DOODLES.
MASTERPIECES and DOODLES will be framed and auctioned at our 2010 Martinis & Masterpieces event.
All MASTERPIECES and DOODLES have been signed and are authentic!
MASTERPIECE artists for our 2010 Martinis & Masterpieces event include:
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Kevin Caron |
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Melding practical experience with lively imagination, Kevin Caron creates sculptures that have been described as fresh, lively and honest. Kevin moved to Arizona from Connecticut in 1973. Working with an uncanny sense of space and proportion, he is conscious of not only the visual impact of his pieces, but often, too, their sounds and textures. Several pieces at Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship, Inc., which serves people with physical disabilities have become valley favorites.
With more than 30 private and public commissions, his work can be found across the country. His work can be seen locally at Pearson & Company in Scottsdale; and, Wild Holly Gallery in Carefree. His work has been featured n the Arizona Republic, Phoenix Home & Garden and Phoenix Magazine. |
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Roland Dahlquist |
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| Al Glann |
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| Michael Goldsteiner |
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Born and raised in New York City, Michael earned his BA at UCLA and began painting seriously in at the studio of Mark Zseka in Los Angeles. He has studied with Ben Goo and Ray Fink at ASU and earned an MA at ASU in 1973.
Selected collections include: ASU Art Collections; First National Bank; and, Phoenix Sky Harbor Art Museum.
Solo and Group Exhibitions include: Flagstaff Art Center; Phoenix Art Museum; Matthews Art Museum; Scottsdale Art Center; and, touring Exhibition sponsored by the Arizona Arts & Humanities Commission. |
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| Jim Haldy |
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| Jay Hardin |
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Jay Hardin was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. At an early age he developed artistic interests in drawing and music. He learned the craft of screen-printing which eventually led him to oil painting. Jay moved to Tucson an enrolled at U of A, where he studied painting, printmaking, sound, video and art history and earned his BFA in 2000.
While living in Tucson, Jay developed a special interest in the ancient art of the Americas which has had a significant influence in his art over the years. During his time as a graduate student at ASU, he focused on developing new techniques for creating abstract and organic images. He received is MFA in 2007.
Jay is a professor at the Art Institute of Phoenix teaching painting, drawing and design. He has taught various art courses at ASU, Phoenix Country Day School, University of Missouri, and Penland School of Crafts. He is a former member of the Eye Lounge Artist Collective in Phoenix and is currently represented by Platform Gallery in Tucson. |
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| Kevin Hedgpeth |
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| Christopher Jagmin |
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Christopher Jagmin¹s paintings are inspired by the many birds that keep him company in his Phoenix backyard while he paints. Christopher starting working with encaustic painting about three years ago, and fell in love with the textural qualities of the medium. This process involves combining wax and oil using heat to fuse the two together, then scraping away layers to reveal layers underneath. This painting technique gives his work a depth, dimension, and a suggestion of history to his art.
Christopher shows his work at Level 9 Gallery in Cave Creek, and galleries around the country. In addition, Christopher designs dinnerware that is sold in stores around the world. |
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| Alison King |
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Alison King is the Founding Editor of ModernPhoenix.net and Associate Professor of Design at The Art Institute of Phoenix. A printmaker at heart, Alison's works are often created in series. Her interest in low relief has completely inverted from carving blocks to creating sculpture that lies just above the surface.
Alison’s masterpieces was harvested from the ruins of Al Beadle's Mountain Bell Building, which was demolished in 2009. It is the third in her series of works on Mountain Bell. The building's silhouette is reproduced in exact geometry and could be cross-categorized in her "Afterimage" series of things that were once there, but are no longer. The glass represents both the aching tears and glittering aspirations of those whose resolve is truly shatterproof. |
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| Mayme Kratz |
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| Sarah Kriehn |
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Sarah Kriehn was born and raised in Winslow, Arizona and currently lives in Phoenix. She is a printmaker whose approach to art lies between fields of printmaking and painting. Her original abstract, monotypes and collagraphs chronicle encounters and experiences in life.
Her work as been exhibited at the Shemer Art Cener Museum, Cathedral Center for the Arts, Herberger Gallery, U of A Medical School, Tempe Center for the Arts and he Phoenix Art Museum.
Prior to Sarah’s career as an artist, she was an art specialist in the Washington School District in Phoenix. During that time, she received the Arizona Elementary Art Teacher of the Year Award and the Lamp of Learning Award. |
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| Patsy Lowrey |
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| Michael Marlowe |
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| Bob Martin |
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Born in New York City, Bob Martin was surrounded by art, jazz, dance and basketball as a youngster and nothing has changed in over 50 years. He has an admiration for Cézanne, Degas and most importantly Modigliani. He is also fascinated by the relationships between Duke Ellington and Gershwin, Miles Davis and Beethoven, Romare Bearden and Proust. All of these artists have influenced his approach to how he views painting and the world.
His most recent one-man shows and group exhibitions include: Collective Art, Dumbo, New York 2009; Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe AZ 2007/8. His work hangs in private collections in New York NY, Philadelphia PA, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Scottsdale AZ, St. Louis MO, Kansas City KC, San Francisco CA and Paris France. |
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| Steve Missal |
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| Beatrice Moore |
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| Chris Natale |
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| Joe Ray |
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Joe is President/Creative Director of Estudio Ray, A Visual Branding Agency in Phoenix. Joe has won more than 90 awards and has been published in numerous design, marketing and creative books and magazines, both nationally and internationally. Currently, his work is featured in an invitational exhibit title Bold Caballeros and Noble Bandidas at the Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles.
Born in San Luis, Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico, Joe has lived in Arizona since the age of 3. He grew up on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservations near Parker, AZ and resided there prior to moving to the Phoenix Area to attend ASU.
To learn more about Joe, go to www.joeray.com |
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| Mike Rider |
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| Catherine Ruane |
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Catherine works and lives in Buckeye, AZ. She grew up in the Imperial Valley She earned two Masters of Fine Arts degrees from San Diego State University and Otis Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Her early diary consisted of drawings of weeds and twigs that she discovered on her daily adventures. Her current work includes those same careful recordings of a day’s discoveries.
Ms. Ruane’s work is included in many corporate collections including, Walt Disney Corp., Fox Studios, Citibank, BMW, Sony Corp., Wachovia, Turner Broadcast Network, and IBM.
She is currently showing her work in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area including the Herberger Theatre Center Art Gallery, Shemer Center Museum, Burton Barr Central Library and as a private exhibition for the Phoenix city Mayor’s Office. |
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| Gregory Sale |
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Gregory Sale is a multidisciplinary artist working conceptually in visual art, performance art, and community-based projects. The form and content of his work reflects a hybrid approach which incorporates the wry sensibility of Pop art, along with the optimism of Yoko Ono, the provocation of the Happenings, and the raw intensity of art in the age of AIDS.
Gregory has a MFA in Art from U of A and a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in French Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Sale is currently preparing two temporary projects in the public sphere: Love Buttons for Scottsdale Public Art Program and Stuck on You for Glendale Arts. Both projects engage their audiences in a collective contemplation of love. |
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| Joan Thompson |
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| Ellen Wagener |
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Ellen Wagener, a native Iowan, who now hales from Cave Creek. She attended Marycrest College in Davenport, the University of Iowa and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. from which she received her BFA.
Ellen moved to Arizona from Iowa more than five years ago. She has been working in pastels for more than 20 years and is best known for her fantastic large pastel paintings of the Iowa Landscape. Her art shows all over the country, and most recently at the Phoenix Airport Museum. To learn more about Ellen, click here. |
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| Joan Waters |
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Originally from England, Joan Waters grew up on the East Coast of the US. After earning her BFA at the Maryland Institute, she was selected for School 33, which provided studio space for emerging artists. Waters moved to Phoenix in 1989, and rededicated herself to making art after having breast cancer and chemotherapy at age 34.
Currently, she works in painting and welded steel sculpture from her Tempe studio. Each piece is entirely hand-worked, transforming industrial steel materials into organic forms with colored patinas. In 2007 she was guest curator of the Herberger Theater Center Art Gallery. Recent commissions include a series of large wall reliefs for the Downtown Phoenix Sheraton, the Burton Barr Central Library, and City of Mesa. She is currently working on two Bus Rapid Transit shelter designs for downtown Chandler. |
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| Frank Ybarra |
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"When I was a young child, speaking Spanish was not prevalent in my family, nor was practicing the traditions and rituals of my native culture. This is not to say that we were trying to disassociate ourselves from our heritage, but rather I think it may have been my family's attempt to 'fit in' with our suburban surroundings. Therefore my work is (in a lighthearted manner) a tribute to my 'suburban ethnic' upbringing."
Frank Ybarra grew up in a family that was proud of its Mexican roots but was fully assimilated into U.S. culture, encouraging him to speak English so that he would fit easily into society. Ybarra himself always aspired to be a fine artist but enrolled at Arizona State University in the graphic arts program. In 1982, although he had completed the credit requirements for a B.F.A. in graphic design, he left school to accept a job as a graphic designer for Samaritan Health System in Phoenix, AZ, a position he held for the next twelve years. At the same time he started doing freelance projects and continued to produce studio works. By 1994 he had gained a sufficient number of clients for his freelance illustration business to permit him to work completely on his own, dividing his time between commercial and fine art. The two pursuits made a fortuitous combination. "Luckily, I get to use my natural style not only in my personal art, but also in my commercial work," he explained. "Clients who like my work ask for it when they hire me."
Ybarra's colorful neo-Cubist works are cartographic icons of the U.S. Southwest, indicators of place and vehicles of memory. Having grown up on the east side of Phoenix, Ybarra frequently uses physical landmarks that were parts of his childhood experience in his work. He draws inspiration from familiar themes in the Southwest, as well as "American" family life, infusing his subjects with whimsy, vibrancy, and symbolism. Both Ybarra's Mexican American cultural heritage and the desert environment inspire him. His work resides in the space between the tightness of line typical of Cubism and the conceptually and iconographically familiar images favored by pop artists-a graphic quality that recalls Uruguayan painter and sculptor Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949) but without the blurred edges. Ybarra's work has much in common with the early abstract still lifes of Cuban artist Amelia Palaez (1896-1968), whose figuratively abstract paintings emphasized a tight use of line as well as saturated, vibrant color. |
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All artwork featured here is used with the artists' permission and is protected under copyright laws. It is unlawful to reproduce this artwork without the artists' express permission.
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