Leroy introduces his good friend David Valdes on this week's episode of the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast ... While some artists naturally embrace the attention their fame brings them, there are other artists that shy away from the spotlight, and at the extreme, choose privacy and solitude in the studio. Without the constant examination of the public eye, the recluse artist is left to his own devices. Ironically, this insular environment only encourages speculation about their inspirations, reasonin...
Jul 23, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Leroy Garcia and Susan Taylor Glasgow chat about the process behind making glass art... Born in Superior, Wisconsin, Susan Taylor Glasgow grew up just across the tip of Lake Superior, in Duluth, Minnesota. She migrated south with the geese to the University of Iowa, graduating with a BFA in Design in 1983. After working in graphic design for a short period, Susan returned to the sewing skills passed on to her by her mother. Opening a dressmaking shop, Susan owned and operated “On Pins & Need...
Jun 29, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Leroy talks to Sean Diediker about the genesis of his career. ... Sean Diediker is a painter's painter. His sweeping, faceted brushstrokes and painterly surfaces generate works that reveal the artist's sensitivity to his medium and attention to the act of painting itself. Diediker assembles bold colors, chiaroscuro and a cutting-edge sense of design to create a highly original body of work that separates him from his contemporaries. His imagery captures biblical allegories, narratives and concep...
Jun 15, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Leroy Garcia and Matthew Sievers discuss works in Matthew's current show "Seeing Through a Painted Veil" at Blue Rain Gallery. The show will be up through June 19th, 2021. ... Matthew Sievers steps up to his easel with passion and energy, qualities that stream from his palette knife and brush in great sweeps of vibrant color and emotion. Sievers came to art at an early age, studying with his father, Gregory Sievers, an accomplished professional artist. They explored an array of mediums and style...
Jun 02, 2021•20 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Everything you need to know about collecting art from acquisitions to deaccession. https://blueraingallery.com/collections Produced by Leah Garcia Music by Mozart Gabriel Abeyta
May 18, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Starr Hardridge is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was raised throughout central Oklahoma. His work uses an assemblage of pointillism and southeastern woodland bead work aesthetic. Schooled in traditional disciplines of classical painting, his style continues to evolve with an abstract symbolism influenced by a struggle for balance within the natural world. His bold use of color and geometry wield a modern twist inspired by Muscogee patterns and designs. Hardridge's work is f...
Apr 05, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 14
PRESTON SINGLETARY AND JODY NARANJO: A Collaboration in Glass III opens Friday March 26th from 5 to 7pm at Blue Rain Gallery ... "Being surrounded by a distinguished family of accomplished artists and educators is both inspiring as well as challenging. Jody Naranjos grandmother, mother, and aunts are world-renowned potters from a pueblo known for its potters. They certainly motivate her, but to stand out, one must constantly challenge ones own ideas and "strive to do ones very very best," Naranj...
Mar 22, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Blue Rain Gallery Owner, Leroy Garcia and Tlingit Artist, Preston Singletary sit down with Museum of New Mexico Foundation for a conversation on Native Glass Art. Recorded October 2020 Produced by Leah Garcia Music by Mozart Gabriel Abeyta
Mar 08, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Chris Pappan is a Chicago-based artist of Kaw, Osage, and Cheyenne River Sioux heritage. His artwork is based on American Indian ledger drawings of the mid to late 19th Century, and through use of evocative imagery and mixed media, his work has an undeniable 21st Century twist. https://www.blueraingallery.com/artists/chris-pappan/view-all Produced by Leah Garcia Music by Mozart Gabriel Abeyta...
Feb 22, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Moving to the West in 2005 was a life-changing event that brought Kathryn Stedham face-to-face with a true calling: painting the infinite spaces of the American Southwest. Little did she realize at the time, that this would combine two personal rudiments: painting and contemplation. Forever fascinated with stories about the West and Westward Expansion she explains, “I would happily board a time machine, if there were such a thing, to experience first-hand this important period in American histor...
Feb 08, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Bryce Pettit grew up surrounded by nature. His deep love for the world around him and his desire to create art has always been closely linked. Upon entering college, he studied biology and the natural sciences followed by graduate studies in ecology. Eventually his passion for art became undeniable and he focused full-time on an art career. At first Bryce took any sculpting job that he could find, including sculpting for a variety of architectural and hardware companies. Following his innate cur...
Jan 25, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Larry D Blissett 's show " Can You Dig My Vibrations " opens Friday January 29th at 5pm. Group Howl at 6pm. Masks required. "'Art brut,' 'outsider art,' 'abstract,' 'expressionist'- these are all labels for a newer, different way of putting ideas out there to share with others. I was born in Texas and the Southwest has a large influence on my subjects and palette. Most times they are not delicate... I like a wild and free aspect in my work and I hope you do as well. My paintings I would describe...
Jan 11, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Leroy Garcia talks about his new business endeavor, Blue Rain Print Shop. You can visit the print shop at www.bluerainprintshop.com Produced by Leah Garcia Music by Mozart Gabriel Abeyta
Dec 28, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 7
A dedicated chronicler of the daily life of the Navajo, Hyrum Joe evinces a keen eye and a deft hand as he lovingly depicts quotidian scenes that convey the quiet dignity and humanity of his people. Joe eschews the abstract symbolism that characterizes much Native art, preferring instead to marry impressionism with realism. “Although I love the images from the rock art and other sources that inspire a lot of contemporary Native work, I’m personally attracted to the classical European style of fi...
Dec 14, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Jim Vogel deftly weaves color and emotion, detail and shape into paintings that reflect life and land in New Mexico. Vogel hails from a family of storytellers, so each of his works tells its own tale of the land, the culture, and the common man's struggle. Vogel's storytelling continues including paintings which depict New Mexican folklore and myths that have crossed cultures and been told for generations. "I'm trying to put images to these stories I've heard over and over from my mother and fat...
Nov 30, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 5
"My work explores the relationship between nature and emotion. There is often an emphasis on movement, composition and visual texture. I am inspired by modern culture, nature, meditation and microeconomics. Someone once told me I was spoon-fed art as a child, this is true. I’m the fourth generation of the only female painting dynasty on my maternal side, and the daughter of a fine art custom picture framer and artist on my paternal side. In my creative process, I often start with what I have, fi...
Nov 16, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 4
"The Southwest is my rich pallet for creative inspiration. Time spent out on the land is where I feel most grounded. Watching the sky's changing light, with heroic cloud forms overhead ... these feed my artist's eye. I love that the land here is exposed and wide open to long distant horizons. New Mexico resonates deeply with my spirit as an artist. I am most interested in capturing what speaks of the expanse and the connection that ties us to this place in a timeless, memorable way." — Doug West...
Nov 02, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3
One of the originators of the Western Pop Art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from Photorealism with a Pop Art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Schenck is known for utilizing cinematic imagery reproduced in a flattened, reductivist style, where colors are displayed side-by-side rather than blended or shadowed. In the August 2014 issue of SouthwestArt magazine, his work was described as “a stance … a pendulum between the romantic and the irreverent.” S...
Oct 14, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In the first episode of the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast, gallery owner and host Leroy Garcia introduces himself and offers a glimpse into his journey through the art world. Music by: Mozart Gabriel Abeyta
Oct 05, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 1
