Leroy recaps last season and talks about things to come in season III of the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast. Season II Episodes: 27 Kim Martindale 28 Preston Singletary – Raven & the Box of Daylight (exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian) 29 The Million Dollar Pot – Mike & Terry 30 Dan Friday 31 Marshall Hunt 32 Mozart Gabriel 33 Ryan Singer 34 Thomas Breeze Marcus 35 Taos Six Collection – Denise Phetteplace, Executive Director 36 Museum of New Mexico Foundation – Jami...
Jan 19, 2023•12 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Vanessa Elmore of Elmore Art Appraisals visits with Leroy to chat about trends in the Contemporary Native Art Market. Vanessa is a long time friend of the gallery and has a background in Native American Art. Today she offers art appraisal services & consulting for: individuals, museums, and corporations. Learn more here: http://www.elmoreartappraisals.com/home.html Thumbnail art by Ryan Singer Blue Rain Gallery Podcast is hosted by gallery owner and art dealer, Leroy Garcia. It is produced b...
Dec 08, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 46
ROBIN JONES You Were Born With Wings October 28 – November 12, 2022 Artist Reception: Friday, October 28th from 5 - 7pm https://blueraingallery.com/event/new-paintings-21 In this body of work, I’m continuing my focus on endangered species-with a specific focus on winged species- and climate change, as well as celebrating the beauty of the natural world. I also focus on indigenous populations- they tend to bear the brunt of climate change destruction and they also hold ancestral wisdom and practi...
Oct 14, 2022•2 min
Jeweler Sharon Meyer makes a special appearance at the gallery. ... Sharon Meyer Jewelry is born from her passion for design and never-ending creativity and eye for beauty. Her unsurpassed ability to craft timeless jewelry that is both accessible and cutting edge is based in her mixture of color, form and materials. Always designed to be comfortable, Sharon’s work has a luxurious tactile feel and unsurpassed quality. Sharon’s work is hand-made in the USA and executed in precious and semi preciou...
Oct 13, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 45
This new body of work seeks to encapsulate features of the Southwest that are both dramatic, and unique to the region in a series of large and medium format paintings. One can expect to see a suite of paintings that includes deep canyons, isolated buttes, winding rivers, desert cacti and archeological wonders. Admired for a distinct graphic style in which light renders the landscape and its formations majestic, Doug West has earned his reputation as one of the most distinguished painters of the ...
Oct 06, 2022•4 min
Jim Vogel breaks down his upcoming show, HAPPENSTANCE, opening at Blue Rain Gallery September 30th, 2022 from 5-7pm ... Happenstance, noun : a circumstance especially that is due to chance ... A modern master of New Mexico Regionalism, Vogel has long been captivated by the state’s folklore, landscapes and people. He often paints in themes or series, having focused over the years on depicting flamenco dancers, railroad workers, ranchers and more. Storytelling is at the heart of each of his intric...
Sep 19, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Leroy talks with the Curator of Ethnology at the Museum of Indian Arts Culture, Tony Chavarria and the Director of Leadership Giving at the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Lauren Paige. ... Here, Now and Always: Join us for the reopening of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s core exhibition, Here, Now and Always. When the original exhibition opened 25 years ago, it set a new a standard for collaborating and partnering with Indigenous communities, foregrounding the voices and narratives of ...
Sep 09, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Jody Naranjo joins Leroy Garcia to discuss the upcoming centennial of Indian Market. Jody Naranjo's "100 Indian Markets" giclée prints will be available for purchase at bluerainprintshop.com on Tuesday, August 9th. Products with that design will become available on Thursday, August 11th. ONLY AT BLUE RAIN PRINT SHOP 💙 https://bluerainprintshop.com/collections/jody-naranjo Group Exhibition During Blue Rain Gallery's Annual Celebration of Native American Art August 18 – 22, 2022 Artist Reception:...
Aug 08, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Blue Rain Gallery Owner/President Leroy Garcia is featured on the Art Dealer Diaries Podcast with Dr. Mark Sublette ... " I've known Leroy Garcia of Blue Rain Gallery for 30+ years and his trajectory and my trajectory are very similar. He opened his gallery in Taos and then moved to Santa Fe, having had another location in Scottsdale at one point as well. My gallery is in Tucson and was also in Santa Fe for a time. We share some of the same artists in our stable, as well as the way we do busines...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 41
Leroy invites Peter Stoessell (Blue Rain Gallery Director of Acquisition) and Gustavo Voctor Goler (New Mexican Santero) on the podcast to talk about Spanish Devotional Art in the art market and in New Mexican culture. Blue Rain Gallery 's Spanish Market Show opens Friday, July 15th from 5-7pm ... Gustavo Victor Goler was raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico among a family of Latin American art conservators and restorers. Goler’s early years were spent apprenticing in his families conservation studios...
Jul 12, 2022•22 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Introducing Contemporary Native Painter Frank Buffalo Hyde When working on a piece, I tap into the universal mind. The collective unconsciousness of the 21st century. Drawing images from advertisement, movies, television, music and politics. Expressing observation, as well as knowledge through experience. Overlapping imagery to mimic the way the mind holds information: non linear and without separation. I don't need permission to make what I make. Never have...no artist should. -Frank Buffalo Hy...
Jul 01, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Doug West shares his new works for his upcoming show, "Chaco Canyon and Beyond", opening Friday October 7th from 5-7pm at Blue Rain Gallery ... "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 ...
Jun 10, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Andrea was a self-proclaimed artist by age three, and the passion for painting only grew from there! She paints a diverse range of subjects and different styles, and has an affinity for detail largely influenced by her background in illustration. Born in Florida, raised in Baltimore, Maryland and Wilmington, North Carolina, Andrea attended East Carolina University studying Communication Arts with a B.A. in illustration. She continued to study fine art painting, largely self-taught. Her paintings...
Apr 28, 2022•13 min•Season 2Ep. 37
President of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Jamie Clements joins Leroy on the podcast to talk about upcoming museum exhibitions, openings, and historic sites. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Museum of International Folk Art New Mexico History Museum New Mexico Museum of Art Donate to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation ... Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St, Santa Fe NM 505-954-9902 Blue Rain Gallery Podcast is hosted by gallery owner and art dealer, Leroy Garcia. It is produced by L...
Apr 20, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Blue Rain Gallery Executive Director Denise Phetteplace talks about the Taos Six Collection: A series of shows honoring Taos Founding Artists Oscar E. Berninghaus, Joseph Henry Sharp, E. Irving Couse, W. Herbert Dunton, Ernest L. Blumenschein, & Bert Geer Phillips. An Homage to E. Irving Couse opens at Blue Rain Gallery April 29th, 2022 from 5-7pm An Homage to Joseph Henry Sharp An Homage to Oscar E. Berninghaus Learn more about the Taos Society of Artists: Couse-Sharp Historic Site Taos Art...
Apr 01, 2022•15 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Thomas “Breeze” Marcus was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona on the Salt River Pima- Maricopa Reservation, just east of Scottsdale. At the tender age of 13, Breeze was introduced to graffiti and began painting graffiti in and around the city of Phoenix since 1993, which he has continued variously on and off for the next two decades. However, in that time, Breeze has also dedicated his artistic efforts to painting publicly sanctioned murals and creating innovative artworks. Of particular note, ...
Mar 10, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Ryan Singer is a Diné (Navajo) artist-painter based in Albuquerque, NM. Creating artwork based on his Navajo heritage and incorporating pop culture elements including science fiction imagery. He weaves stories of his childhood memories with nostalgic iconography. He has been included in the “Indigenous Futurism” movement but has been drawing Star Wars characters since 1977. Ryan also enjoys creating portrait realism of Native subjects with a contemporary appeal. His artwork is in collections of ...
Feb 22, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Mozart Gabriel arose from the waters of Taos Pueblo & Red Rocks of the Navajo Tohjiilee. From a village of powerful traditional singers, the red willow tribe gave him his name Mozart at Birth. His travels brought him later to Nashville TN where he made a career in music videos for the local independent artists. It soon brought him to Barcelona to craft his sounds, with many musicians and many projects featuring Liam Cloud. Soon after The Vicious Strikes were formed to rock the underground sc...
Feb 10, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Art collector Marshall Hunt is featured on the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast. You can find his songs here: https://scottvanzenofficial.com/ Blue Rain Gallery Podcast is hosted by gallery owner and art dealer, Leroy Garcia. It is produced by Leah Garcia with music by Mozart Gabriel Abeyta (https://mozartgabriel.com) .
Jan 31, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Dan Friday has lived in the Northwest his whole life, a shining product of the studio glass movement. Friday has cultivated his artistic vision with strong influence from his indigenous roots in the Pacific Northwest. Craft, form and idea drive Dan's work from conception to object. The past two decades working with artists such as Dale Chihuly and Paul Marioni have given Dan tools and inspiration to develop craft and produce his art. He feels fortunate to have experienced the rich diversity of S...
Jan 25, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Leroy interviews two collectors and close friends, Mike Eagle and Terry Raider. This episode is in honor of Mike Eagle who passed away shortly after the episode was recorded. He was passionate about art and Native American culture. You can view his and Terry's art collection at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, IN. ... Learn more about collecting art in episode 15 of the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast (The Passion to Create is No Different Than the Passion to C...
Jan 17, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Leroy Garcia talks with Preston Singletary about his upcoming exhibition at the Museum of the American Indian opening January 28, 2022 “Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight features works from internationally acclaimed artist Preston Singletary (Tlingit American, b. 1963), and tells the story of Raven, the creator of the world and giver of the stars, moon, and sun. Through an immersive, multisensory experience, Raven takes visitors on a journey of the transformation of darkness into...
Dec 20, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 28
For four decades, Kim Martindale has been producing many of the countries most prestigious and successful art shows. Closely involved in the art world from an early age, Mr. Martindale has brought his professionalism and enthusiasm to all areas of his work. (Courtesy of http://www.krmartindale.com ) ... Blue Rain Print Shop https://bluerainprintshop.com Blue Rain Gallery https://blueraingallery.com ... Hosted by Leroy Garcia Produced by Leah Garcia Music by Mozart Gabriel Abeyta...
Dec 10, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Podcast host and gallery owner, Leroy Garcia talks about season one of the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast. Blue Rain Gallery https://blueraingallery.com Blue Rain Print Shop https://bluerainprintshop.com ... Produced by Leah Garcia Music by Mozart Gabriel Abeyta
Nov 09, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Meet Robin Jones in this week's episode of the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast. Her show "One Thread" opens at Blue Rain Gallery October 29th with an Artist Reception from 5-7pm. ... Robin Jones left her career in the theater to paint. It came as a pivot in her life when she was trapped at home for two weeks during Hurricane Ike when she was living in Houston. This forced time at home inspired her to paint large abstract and figurative paintings, and she has focused on painting ever since. Jones’s pai...
Oct 18, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 25
An introduction to the art of patina with artist Nathan Bennett and Leroy Garcia. ... Nathan Bennett describes the method as “using different metals and applying them through the use of fire and various chemicals to create colors on bronze.” The technique is just as complicated and as messy as it sounds, and it requires a great deal of time and patience to master. Bennett’s interest in art stemmed from a young age, receiving 2 university scholarships right out of high school to pursue his dreams...
Sep 30, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Rik Allen and Shelley Muzylowski Allen talk about their history and introduction to glass art on Zoom with Leroy Garcia ... While many of my pieces have reference to my curiosity of science, it is also important for me to convey humor and the lighthearted fun that rockets and fiction embody. Presently, I am working toward exploring simple forms that lend a sculptural venue and provide a theater of the human condition, while also making work related to natural science and its parallels in our cul...
Sep 17, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Leroy introduces artist Erin Currier and learns about her upcoming show Passion, Pathos, and the Human Potential , opening at Blue Rain Gallery September 10th, 2021 from 5-7pm ... My artistic practice has taken me on a lifelong “shoestring” adventure—packed with action and magic—that has variously found me training in Beijing with Kung Fu masters; tango dancing in Buenos Aires; in riots in Chile; eating dinner on dirt floors with Tibetan exiles in Nepal and at the dinner tables of famed filmmake...
Sep 02, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Leroy and Stetson ride down memory lane and talk about the meaning and process of making kachina dolls. Available works by Stetson : https://blueraingallery.com/artists/stetson-honyumptewa Produced by Leah Garcia Music by Mozart Gabriel Abeyta
Aug 16, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Dennis shares his experiences creating event posters. ... A native San Franciscan, Dennis graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts. His knack for composition paired with his eye for color gave him a distinctive look and he was able to establish himself as an illustrator in San Francisco. Wanting to explore more opportunities as an illustrator, he moved to New York in 1980. While there, he flourished as an artist, which eventually led him to a successf...
Aug 06, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 20
