East Gallery Opening: La Vida del Rio, The Life of the River!

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1. Marian Berg has loved creating art since childhood. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College, the University of New Mexico and with many generous teachers over the years. She became enchanted with the land and people of New Mexico about 50 years ago and has been joyfully painting them ever since. She enjoys discovering new places and painting “en plein air” in oils. Although primarily a landscape and portrait painter, Marian enjoys painting on a large scale and has painted several murals. She is an award-winning artist and has participated in many juried exhibits. She is a member of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, the Rio Grande Art Association, and the Rainbow Artists and Oil Painters of America. Marian is also a licensed art teacher in New Mexico and a Registered Nurse. Marian started the Art Heals Project in 2013.This outreach project provides art experiences for hospitalized children, especially those with contagious and/or life-threatening illness. Marian has visited over ten thousand children in their hospital rooms with her mobile art cart to offer art activities. She was designated a Local Treasure by the Albuquerque Art Business Association, an award for artists who excel in the arts and give back to their communities. Marian believes that artmaking is a healing and life-affirming process. “My daily goal is to focus on the beauty in the world and add beauty to the world.”
2. Tina de la Luz is a local artist, born and raised in Albuquerque. As a child, she often rode her bike to the bosque and loved exploring the riverside forest and her beloved river. Her interest in artmaking was supported and encouraged by her family. At age 40, a single mom of four teenagers, Tina enrolled in the College of Fine Art at UNM where she received her BFA in 2006. Tina continues to explore her sense of self through her art. Her main focus is on creating sculptures using found wood and stone. Tina’s sculptures reflect her continued inspiration from the Rio Grande. Her work is very organic and flowing, like the river she loves and calls home. Her sculptures in the gallery would inspire the viewer to see the connection between her forms and the natural world.
3. Joan Fenicle is a multi-media artist with a lifelong love for the natural world who calls herself a “professional wanderer”. She grew up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, a third generation of Colorado natives on her mother’s side. Her father was born on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming into a family of wanderers who came west, some in search of gold, some in search of adventure. Coming to New Mexico in the 1970s, she found a wonderful place where ancient and modern, familiar and unexplored coexist. She has been traveling the caminos, callejones and rivers of New Mexico ever since, capturing villages and vistas in paintings and photographs. Her work for the Open Space would be in heavily textured mixed media. She uses topo maps and arial photographs of an area to design a “bird’s eye view” and then incorporates acrylic paints, textures, found and natural objects like leaves and stones.
   
   

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