NM Art League presents: Engaging with the Natural and Human Community!

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PAMELA BARCITA 

Pamela Barcita is a watercolor artist, an illustrator, and art teacher who recently moved back to New Mexico after many years living overseas and in other states most recently, Virginia. Currently she teaches at the New Mexico Art League, and online as an instructor for the Visual Arts Center of Tidewater Community College located in Norfolk, VA. She has been teaching in the classroom and online for TCC since 1986. Pamela is the illustrator of over 25 children’s books.  Pamela earned a master’s degree in Studio Art with an emphasis in Illustration from Marywood University in Scranton, PA in 1998. She is a member of The New Mexico Watercolor Society and the New Mexico Art League. Pamela’s watercolor paintings won several awards from the Southside Artists Association art shows in 2018-19, ranging from People’s Choice, Third, Second and First Place. For the Chesapeake Bay Watercolorists she was awarded a Second Place in the 2019 Spring Show and won Best in Show and People’s Choice awards in the 2019 Fall show. Most recently she won Best of Show, New Mexico Watercolor Society, Fall Exhibit - 2024. 

CAROLYN BERRY 

As I walk around the world, I am compelled to pick up objects or photograph subjects that catch my attention especially eroded or decaying surfaces, abandoned spaces and natural forms.  No matter what medium I am working in most of my imagery involves layering. I often combine photography, collage, drawing and painting in my art practice.  Aspects of nature, cycles of life, vintage papers and photographs are starting points for my compositions even if they are abstract or three-dimensional. I choose to add paint, encaustic wax or acrylic paint to pieces depending on the amount of layering, transparency or surface texture needed to achieve the emotional impact that I am looking for. Passionate about teaching and making art for over 25 years, I have taught workshops for the Kansas City Art Institute Continuing Education, the Nelson Atkins Museum, and the New Mexico Art League.  My art can be seen at the Encaustic Art Institute in Cerrillos, NM, the New Mexico Art League, and on Instagram at #carolynberryart. 

DAVE COOK

Dave Cook, an artist and architect, explores the beauty of the created world through vivid, colorful shape-dominated paintings. His approach to water media painting is varied and explorative; he paints landscapes often with references to buildings and structures as a natural outgrowth of his architectural background. His cityscapes, portraits and animal paintings are expressive studies with dramatic light interplay. The techniques he employs are often spontaneous with energy and emotion.  He paints somewhere between realism and abstraction, using water media, often using various textures, strokes and effects.  dcookart.com

JOHN CORMIER

John is a New Mexico artist and a signature member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society, the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, and New Mexico Art League. He creates colorful, atmospheric works inspired by the beauty, mood, and hues of places and people. John’s subjects include forest landscapes, winter scenes, trees, dancers, and portraits. John’s landscapes and figure paintings feature dramatic, colorful, and iridescent renderings, and he strives to capture the refined beauty and passion of his subjects using watercolor’s unique and fluid characteristics. John’s works have been recognized and awarded in multiple juried exhibitions in the Albuquerque area.  For more art by John Cormier follow at jcormiernmart on Instagram. 

CYNTHIA INSON

What is the best thing about being an artist? 

The best thing about being an artist is the journey of learning, analysis, decision making and discovery that I so enjoy as I create. All these things truly fuel and run my engine. Painting is much like writing to me. Instead of words I am using paint, color, brushstroke, lines, form to develop the story and create an impression of mood, light, distance, and three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional surface and space. My goal, as an artist, is to captivate the viewer, to convince them to feel that sense of awe and joy that I felt seeing the sky that I painted or the mountains, roses, water, whatever. The goal is to stop them in their tracks and for them to respond and enjoy the impression the painting evokes. The added challenge, for me as an artist, is also to create paintings that continue to draw the viewer in, to visually wander, to see parts or the whole of the painting differently over time. This worthy challenge also continues to fuel my growth as an artist. Education: Undergraduate in Art History and Studio Arts, Masters in Anthropology and Archeology. Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Thrilled to be part of the Faculty for the New Mexico Art League. Honored to be represented by the Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

SUSAN E. RODEN 

Multidisciplinary artist and instructor Susan E. Roden is the recipient of the Medal of Honor from the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NY, and awarded residences to the Petrified Forest National Park, The Desert Dairy Farm, Twenty-Nine Palms, CA and Mission Street Arts, Jemez Springs. She is a juried member with the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Distinguished Pastelist of the Pastel Society of New Mexico, Secretary of the New Mexico Committee of the Women’s Museum of Art. Roden has taught at UCSD Extension, San Diego Museum of Art and currently at the New Mexico Art League and Oasis/ ABQ. Her art is collected by the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, San Diego Unified Port District, William Heath Museum, City of Albuquerque, and UNM Hospital. Roden is represented by Tirage Gallery, Carlsbad, CA, Patrician Design, Albuquerque and Jezebel Studio & Gallery, Madrid, NM.  

DAVID SCHWINDT

An active plein-air painter as well as a studio painter, David Schwindt is known for his landscape paintings of the Southwest. Collectors looked forward to his annual solo show at Framing Concepts in Albuquerque for 22 years. He graduated from Fort Lewis College with a degree in Art and minors in Music and Humanities, studied with watercolor masters, Millard Sheets, Milford Zornes, and others through the New Mexico Watercolor Society where he served as President. He studied oil painting with Wilson Hurley, Zhang Wenxin, Clyde Aspevig and others, and has passed on his knowledge by teaching at the Scottsdale Artists School, Albuquerque Academy Summer School, and workshops around the Southwest. He has published articles in The Artist's Magazine and has been featured in many other art publications and newspaper articles. He currently lives in the North Valley of Albuquerque and paints outdoors regularly with old friends and new. www.davidschwindtartist.com

ALICE WEBB 

Although I am originally from Ft Worth I like to think I grew up at least as an artist in Taos because I got there in 1973 when I was twenty. This was like coming home since I had always been an artist but never knew any real artists and, now I was surrounded by a multitude of artists. During the 70’s I was a tapestry weaver but by the end of the 70’s I knew I had to return to painting. I started going out painting with Alyce Frank, Barbara Zaring and other Taos artists. During the 80’s I painted the landscape endlessly and became known as a colorist.  Towards the late 80’s I studied with Fritz Scholder and moved into abstraction.  In 1990 I moved to Albuquerque to continue the formal education at the University of New Mexico that I started in 1971 at UT Austin. After receiving a BFA, I went on to get an MA in Art Education and taught for Albuquerque Public Schools and the University of New Mexico for 15 years. During that time, I became a Golden Apple Distinguished Teacher. While I taught, I also continued to paint often getting up at 4 AM to work in my studio before going to school. In 2016 I was given the Albuquerque Art Treasure award for my work both as an artist and as an art educator. I retired from teaching for the public schools and the University of New Mexico six years ago.  In 2024, I was chosen by New Mexico magazine to have my paintings grace their yearly calendar. Eight of my paintings are in the collection of the state of New Mexico. My work has been shown both nationally and internationally and is in the collection of numerous public and private collections. Today I continue to spend most of my time in my studio and teaching at the New Mexico Art League. 

MARY BETH WOICCAK 

Mary Beth Woiccak's work is inspired by the natural world—big and small, alive and dead, tangible and ethereal. The organic forms, shadows, and shapes that are innate on rocks and in landscapes are all part of the visual language she documents. Color, line, and the tactile nature of objects are explored consistently through Mary Beth's body of work as a whole, including her book art pieces, text-based series, and work with fabric. Born and raised in New York state, Mary Beth received a BFA in Communication Design at State University of New York in Buffalo. She has called Endwell, Houston, Atlanta, and Perth home over the years. In 2019, she moved to Albuquerque to be closer to the landscapes, hikes, and beauty of the Southwest. In addition to making and exhibiting her artwork, Mary Beth has worked professionally for the past 20+ years in arts administration including positions such as art consultant, gallery manager, and program director. 

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