“Our Presence” on View at South Broadway Cultural Center
A new exhibition of paintings and sculptures that embodies four individual perspectives within the fundamentals of art opens at South Broadway Cultural Center on Thursday, January 9. The connection to the natural world and the human form creates the foundation from which this group of artists project their own creations in Our Presence, which opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Our Presence will be on view through March 14.
Artists featured in the exhibition are Timothy Hooten, Leo Neufeld, Dan Paulos, and Aaron Richardson.
Hooten, an Albuquerque native, studied sculpture and jewelry making at the University of New Mexico before working with other artists in a variety of areas including wood carving, metal fabrication, blacksmithing, and every aspect of bronze casting. His work is in numerous public and private collections in the United States and abroad and can be seen at the State Capitol Annex in Santa Fe, The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, and the Shrine of Saint Bernadette in Albuquerque. He is an Elected Member of The National Sculpture Society and won the Bronze Medal/John Cavanaugh Memorial Prize at the society’s 88th Annual Awards Exhibition.
Neufeld, a contemporary realist specializing in landscape and portrait painting, has showcased his work nationwide and completed numerous commissioned pieces. Currently residing in Albuquerque, he has over 30 years of experience as a painting and drawing instructor. Neufeld earned a Bachelor of Science in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin. He further honed his skills at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Art Students League of New York.
Paulos explains that he mostly worked with women during his 60-year career because they had so much more to offer the men he knew. His silhouette teacher was a world-famous nun, the late Sister Mary Jean Dorcy. They co-produced a book, before he worked with Mother Teresa and Sister Wendy Beckett (the British art critic) on two other books. He’s now working on his fourteenth published work. Paulos has spent the last twelve years working with Sister Miriam Therese Winter re-producing the many recordings of her songs performed by her and the Medical Mission Sisters.
Born in San Antonio, Tex., in 1978, art has been a part of Richardson’s life since before he could write. Richardson is a modern realist/expressionist painter working in oil paints and charcoals. Since 2000, he has been creating commissioned portraiture in charcoal, and in 2011 began painting with oils. He's had solo shows in Albuquerque and and San Antonio. Additionally, he’s worked as a painting animator for a film and has done drawings as props for multiple TV series. Richardson lives and paints in Albuquerque.