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Powered By Nature:
Seven Women
April 19 - May 19
Opening Reception with Artists April 19 5:00 - 8:00 PM
Mountainsong Galleries, located on famed Ocean Avenue in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, is honored to host "Powered by Nature: Seven Women" an art show featuring seven of the best women artists in the country and their latest works...a mixture of plein air and studio paintings.
Mountainsong Galleries hosted the American Impressionist Society's 12th
Annual Juried Exhibition and represents 50 of the best-of the best living American Impressionist artists including Debra Joy Groesser, President of the American Impressionist Society, Neil Patterson, President of the Oil Painters of America and five other living Master Artists. Mountainsong also represents one of the most famous glass artists in the world, Randy Strong whose works are in The Louvre and many other museums throughout the world.
Mountainsong recognizes the seven women artists in this show as the best-of-the-best.
Debra Joy Groesser, President of the American Impressionist Society
Cindy Baron
Kim Casebeer
Christine Debrosky
Becky Joy
Shanna Kunz
Lori McNee
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Debra Joy Groesser lives in Nebraska and is President of the prestigious American Impressionist Society. She is an award winning artist who received her BFA degree in art from Bellevue College, Bellevue, Nebraska, in 1978. She has studied with such renowned artists as Kevin Macpherson, Scott Christensen, Kim English, John Cosby and Kenn Backhaus. Debra is passionate about plein air painting in oils. Being outdoors in God's creation, whether in her perennial garden or in the mountains or by the sea, provides her endless inspiration for her work. She strives to capture mood, emotion, atmosphere and beautiful color in her work and is fascinated by the play of light and shadows in her subjects. "My greatest satisfaction in being an artist comes from successfully connecting with people on an emotional level through my artwork. My challenge is to render my subjects in such a way that the viewer will feel the emotions I felt: what attracted me to the subject in the first place."
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Cindy Baron lives in Rhode Island and is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America. Her interest in art developed in early childhood. Her background in drawing led her to watercolors and eventually oils. She discovered that one medium enabled her to grow in the other and vice versa. One of the most frequently asked questions she receives is, "How do you choose which medium you want to use?" The answer is "Nature chooses it for me. I'm blessed to see landscapes in two mediums. When on location I can feel the movement a watercolor can give with its easy flowing and entwining colors, like a foggy morning, or a crashing wave. Yet some scenes call for the intensity, depth and lust that only oils can give. Some say you need to concentrate on just one medium, but I believe if you are passionate and daring as you create and see the world through many eyes, your work will naturally evolve." Cindy has won many awards for her work and is a highly sought after instructor.
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Kim Casebeer lives in Kansas where she was born and raised on a family farm. As part of a fourth generation farm family, she has been connected to the land for a long time. Kim draws her inspiration from the simplicity of the Flint Hills, an area of wide open ranch land. "It's a simple landscape," she says. "It's not grandiose. You have to spend some time and let it speak to you." Kim also feels at home painting in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming and Texas. "I think the simplicity of the Kansas landscape has helped me find the essence of other places. I'm able to focus on what's important in a composition. It's as much as about what's not in the painting as what is."
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Christine Debrosky lives in Arizona and is an American Impressionist pastelist. "The tango of light and color is my muse." It was by taking a workshop with Albert Handell, one of the living Masters, that she was introduced to the rich jewel tones of pastel. Her work in this medium has garnered rainbows of ribbons in shows from coast to coast in the United States, Italy, France and Russia. Coming full circle, and today also working in oil, her career has steadily progressed, showing with such prestigious groups as the Oil Painters of America, the Pastel Society of America, and the American Impressionist Society. Christine has earned signature status with American Women Artists, the Pastel Society of America and is a Distinguished Pastelist in the Pastel Society of the West Coast. She has also been named to Who's Who in American Art, and Who's Who of American Women. Her work has been featured in several magazine articles in American Artist, the Pastel Journal and Pratique des Artes, a French publication, as well as on a television and a movie set.
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Becky Joy lives in Arizona and paints in the historic Plein Air style. She paints impressions of what she sees and feels in her creative trips to the open air and in the studio. True to her desire for painting from life, Becky also paints luscious and colorful still lifes. Becky moved from Oregon to Arizona in 1993 and attended classes and workshops at the Scottsdale Artist's School where she began to hike and paint on trips throughout the West. Becky was juried into Women Artists of the West in 1997. In the summer of 1998, she was included in the Painters of the American Desert show at the Phippen Museum in Prescott, Arizona. She has been published in Art of the American West, Southwest Art Magazine and in the Phoenix Home and Gardens Magazine. Becky's paintings have been collected by the Kierland Resort and Spa, American Equity Insurance, Banner Hospital and Pioneer Home Bank.
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Shanna Kunz lives in Ogden Utah and has been featured in many major magazine articles and participated in many prestigious invitational and juried exhibitions. As a contemporary landscape painter, Shanna's work is a conscious play of mood, light and color. Each location she paints is an encounter with the land, the trees and the waters that give her a sense of connection and order. When a location intrigues and inspires her, she will paint the scene into a series using a range of keys or themes, experimenting and searching to learn more about the natural threads that tie the landscape together with complexity, subtlety and more importantly, balance.
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Lori McNee lives in Idaho and paints still life and landscape. "I would like to paint like a bird sings". Her still life paintings almost always include birds and are often metaphorical, echoing the delicate balance between nature and man. Besides painting, Lori is a professional blogger and public speaker. On her popular FineArtTips.com blog, Lori shares art tips, social media tips and business advice from respected professionals in the art and blogging industries. Because of this, Lori has been named, "Top 10 Up and Coming Women Bloggers," and currently ranks as one of the "Most Influential Artists" on Twitter and "The Top 100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter." Lori has also been featured many popular blogs including The Huffington Post, Art Heroes Blog, BlogTalkFM, Fine Art Views, Barney Davey Blog and Money Dummy Blog.
