Montage Studio Gallery

 invites you and your guests

to our ART-full Open House

on

Sunday, May 20^th, 2012

Noon to 5:00 PM

 Join us and enjoy new works of art and a ton of laughter!

 Member artists include:

 Kim Calvert, Pamela Coste, Morgan Delaney,

Kate Foreman, John Gleason, Jacque Keller,

Matt Sterbenz & Kathryn Tartaglia

 Featured Guest Artists in the Main Gallery for our  

REAL or IMAGINED Exhibition & Sale are:

 Jim & Lynn Arnold, Patricia Ballentine, Jason Breitenbucher, Ingrid Donaldson, Marie Howell, Troy Moody, Crystal Rivera, Alvin Pace, David Vogt & Susan Walde

 Refreshments will be served!   You are going to love this!!!

 Montage is located at 740 S. Mill Avenue, Tempe AZ 85281

Map to Montage: http://mapq.st/K4or9l

 This is a perfect chance for designers and architects to meet the artists and find the perfect piece for their clients!

      Yet Another Bit of News…

 Painting Fearlessly with Watercolors!

 Taught by our friend & talented artist, Kathryn Tartaglia

 3 Hour Classes – Beginning June 3, 2012

Sunday afternoons from 1:00 to 4:00

Minimum age – adult

Fee:  $140.00 for 4 weeks

 Painting with watercolors without intimidation!  Each student will receive the necessary individual assistance they need to help them through the creative process.  We will explore each aspect of watercolors beginning with composition and design and ending with a finished painting each week.

Join Kathryn for 3 fun filled hours on Sunday afternoons.  Her watercolor classes are designed to instruct and inspire.  No drawing skills required.

Each week we will explore a different subject matter with emphasis on the following:  Composition,  Design,  Effectively using light and dark values,  Color mixing, When to use soft or hard edges,   Brush stroke techniques,   How to best use of reference photos &  Secrets to correcting mistakes

Classes are fun and inspiring!  At the end of each class we will take a few minutes to review what we’ve accomplished, so each student can feel comfortable painting on their own before our next class.

 Katherine’s Credentials:  She is a member of the Portrait Society of America and a juried member of the Arizona Watercolor Association, the Arizona Art Alliance, and Montage Studio Gallery. She was awarded signature membership in the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies in May 2010. Her work has won awards including Award of merit, Awards of Excellence, Merchant Awards and  Best of Show. She is among the top watercolorists in the country.

AND most importantly, we think she is talented and lovable!!!

Please call or email her if you would like to sign up for these classes, have any questions or would like additional information.

 Kathryn Tartaglia

www.KathrynTartaglia.com

ktartaglia@yahoo.com  or  480-229-1023

 ALSO if you are interested in Painting with Acrylics,

Tempe’s Montage Gallery has set aside Thursday, June 14th, for a class in acrylics with Jacque.

Go to http://www.millavenue.com/do/acrylic-painting-with-jacque-keller.

Private lessons and other group classes are also available.

A Little More News…

 John & Jacque’s artwork will be featured at El Morro Old School Gallery in Ramah, NM, beginning August 11, 2012, in a two man show entitled  

Two Artists: A Creative Evolution.

If you are headed to El Morro National Monument we will be right next door that weekend! Our artwork will be there for 2 months.

 Many works for both John and Jacque are available at Montage Studio Gallery in Tempe, AZ, Juniper Sky Gallery in Kayenta, UT, El Morro Old School Gallery in Ramah, NM, as well as in the showrooms at the Gleason Studio-Residence.  Just contact us at the numbers or email above…we’d love to hear from you!

  ]]> http://www.quantumartinc.com/2012/05/12/1338/feed/ 0 http://www.quantumartinc.com/2012/03/15/a-tiny-little-bit-of-art-history/ http://www.quantumartinc.com/2012/03/15/a-tiny-little-bit-of-art-history/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:45:09 +0000 Quantum Art http://www.quantumartinc.com/?p=1327 Continue reading →]]> March is a good month for art–well, there aren’t really any bad ones!

In 1444 (there’s a ring to that year, huh?), Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence, Italy, on March 1st.

Our dear Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6, 1475, in Florence, Italy. Those Italians sure promote great art!

In 1822, Painter William Sonntag was born on March 2nd in Pennsylvania. Oh, how we love those Hudson River School artists!

African American painter William H. Johnson was born in Florence--nope, not Italy--South Carolina on March 18th, 1901.  He was known as a Harlem Renaissance painter. Not sure where that name came from (the artists or the critics or the art lovers), but his work has more passion than the Italian Renaissance--at least in a secular way.  Anyway, would be nice to see a traveling retrospective of his work...maybe I missed it.

Well, just some thoughts for the day on how art survives in many centuries, any geographical location--with passionate creative people from the easy(ier) life to the tragic struggle.

This hardly touches the surface of March art history..1599, Anthony van Dyck was born in Antwerp; Goya is born in Spain in March of 1746, John La Farge is born in New York on March 31, 1835.

I love imagining their families holding them, loving them, watching them grow and wondering what they will be when they grow up...

Many sources in print and online to read more about each of these artists. I find the American art fascinating (especially Johnson's) because there were no courts or Vatican or millionaires to spur on their passion. Art lived in them, and they started creating for art's sake. I admire their passion, their priorities, and their work!

jlk

on

Sunday, March 4, 2012

from

1:00 to 5:00 PM 

at

Montage Studio Gallery on Mill

740 South Mill Avenue, Suite 120, Tempe, AZ 85282

(North of University…South of 7^th…West side of Mill Avenue).

 Oh, yes, refreshments will be served!

Thanks in advance for joining us–

you are going to love this!

 Montage Regular Hours:

Wednesday 11-4 pm

Thursday 1-5 pm

3rd Thursdays 1-9 pm

Friday 5-9 pm

Saturday 5-9 pm

Parking Options:

Meter parking–free after 6 PM

City Hall Garage at 5th and Forest–free

Hayden Square at Ash & 5th–free

Brickyard Garage on 7th St.

Centerpoint Garage on Ash

 For more information call John Gleason at 480-283-1480 or email info@QuantumArtInc.com. 

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” ~Thornton Wilder

Not that anyone cares, but I go back and forth on loving Picasso or disliking him. But you have to admit that whatever he created pulls in your eye, your mind, and sometimes your heart. Lovely result for an artist.

I do like these quote (above & below), and I agree we are all mahhhhh-velous. I am guessing it was, however, meant with disdain for ‘the ordinary’ things we want for our children and a disrespect for the masses. That makes me sad. I love an ordinary day–even one that the brushes are put away. The common things in life are mysterious enough to be a marvel. But you cannot capture them all in a portrait or painting or photograph. And what would we do without the mathematicians and the geography majors–if we all did the same thing nothing would get done.  BUT how wonderful this world would be if every child happily felt his own uniqueness, and everyone else celebrated that part of him, too?

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.” (Picasso)

Oh, did I mention John has a couple Picasso’s (not to mention Rockwell, Miro, Erte, Nevelson, and more)? He is an auction groupie and scored some nice art finds over the years. Contact us for a studio tour–they will be included!

So what do ya’ say? This week celebrate Picasso a little—and enjoy the art in your life! It is EVERYWHERE!!!!

jlk

Early American artist Thomas Cole would starve himself to buy his canvas and would sneak into farmers’ animal pens in the Hudson River Valley to steal animal hair to make his own brushes. And when you look at his work it is flawless. Now if that isn’t inspiring I don’t know what is.

I guess that addresses the passion side of this art life also. This need to create that comes not just from your gut or your heart or certainly not your head (ha), but a desire that permeates your entire being. There have been many days that have kept me out of my studio, and after just a short time away I feel a restlessness that does not subside until it is satisfied with gesso or paint or even the inspiration of a new canvas.

John (Gleason) is an incessant creator of his art which I find amazingly inspiring. He lives this passion with all the gusto his outgoing personality provides–and that is a lot!  If you find yourself in need for motivation, stimulation, and encouragement, might I suggest you spend an hour with John! If you do not create art, you will at the very least be inspired to be the best ‘you’ that you can be!!!

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Howard Thurman

Did you know that on this date in 1669 , Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn died in Amsterdam, Holland? (He was born in 1606.) I am always in awe when I see his images, especially his self portraits; he was so honest in depicting every sign of his aging as he chronicled himself in his art. Even with his early artistic and financial success, I understand that the end of his life was wrought with personal and financial difficulties.

Self portrait bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1913

Did you know that the great painting of his that ‘we’ called Night Watch was cleaned some years ago, and it wasn’t night time at all?!!  See!  Art history is not stagnant!

(This information is gleaned from my old ASU art school notes; the art images and MMA info is from Public Domain Clip Art online.)

We are so honored to have a foot in the door of the art world, and we want to share with you our continuing journey of exploration and obsession with line, color, form, texture, light, dimension or their illusion.  It is our passion…

A special thanks to Alex Chernyak, Andy Keller, and Oliver Tani for their technical assistance. If it wasn’t for them this would be a postcard!

Always,  John & Jacque