Blue Rain Gallery Podcast

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...

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 &nbs...

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...

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 se...

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 fathe...

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

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 colo...

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 st...

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

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 Gabrie...

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 boa...

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 coul...

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...

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

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 inspi...

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 gen...

"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 pictu...

"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...

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 ma...

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