Artists

Chuck Albanese

Albanese studied architecture and urban design and worked for the University of Arizona College of Architecture and later became the dean. He is passionate about music, soccer, traveling, architecture, and art. He has taught thousands of students and many have become architects and professional painters. 

Brian Bystedt

His work represents the prehistoric rock art designs (petroglyphs) from the American Southwest and contemporary designs (glyphs) from around the world. He says two words primarily define the creation of his metal art: coalescence and serendipity.

Pam Corbett

Mainly self taught, Corbett has mastered her signature method of using intricately hand made paper on canvas with minimalistic ink outlining. Her work is centered on native plants, birds and animals using strong contrasts, dimensional textures, rich colors and an edgy yet soft contemporary style.

Oberkirsch Designs

With the encouragement of his wife, Jean, he traded his 9-to-5 job to pursue his passion of metalsmithing, and hasn't looked back since."I don't know why I chose copper, maybe it was the color and the malleability," says Oberkirsch. "You can do so much with copper as opposed to other materials. It can be sculpted, it can be flat work; it's kind of limitless.”

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Al Glann

Al Glann grew up on a family farm in central Ohio. A graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, OH, he worked for many years as a commercial designer, illustrator and college professor. During this time, he discovered his preferred modes of artistic expression - sculpture and painting, in particular composite relief, casting, wire sculpture, wood and metal.

Sharon Hodges

Hodges is a Dallas artist whose work is known for its bold color and expressive brushwork. She attacks the surface with brushes, spatulas, sticks and other tools to make texture on the canvas. Subjects include architectural cacti, canyon geology landscape, and crisp still life. “I can find beauty in the structure of a dead cactus or a playful dog…All are waiting to be painted if I just look and let the paint fly.”

Brian Hooker

Brian Hooker combines an extensive technical background in optical sciences and engineering with decades of artistic expression in B&W and color photography. He earned a Ph.D. in optical sciences through his research into optimizing the quality of optical images. His early interest in black & white photography has been largely replaced with his current focus on color, digital photography.

John Horejs

Horejs’ Aunt taught him to paint when he was young and since then he has been able support his wife and family of 9 children since 1986 solely from the sales of his oil paintings which have been showcased in galleries across the Unites States. “In a world that seems increasingly complex and unsettled, I strive through my paintings to convey grace, elegance, quality and beauty.”

Jammey Huggins

Jammey is a Southwest artist who was born and raised in Texas. She has worked with stone, bronze, clay, polymer, and welded sculpture. All of her bronze sculptures are cast using the lost wax method. In this way, all of the details in the original are retained in the reproduction. Her sculptures are produced in limited editions and keep the edition numbers low in order to retain the integrity of her work.

Rocky LaRose

Kathleen "Rocky" LaRose is an award-winning photographer.  Her stunning images have been featured on various magazine and book covers and in numerous articles, including Tucson Lifestyle and Wyoming Wildlife. Rocky's photography follows her travel interest - wherever she travels her camera comes along. While wildlife is her love, photographing people and landscapes is a close 2nd. But mostly...and more importantly, it's about the adventure, the experience and meeting and making new friends around the world. 

Bruce Marion

Whether you’re viewing Bruce Marion’s compelling abstracted landscapes, cityscapes, figurative or contemporary wildlife, it’s likely his rich colorations and dramatic use of light first catch your eye. His works have a distinctive, glowing quality, as if they’re illuminated from within. He achieves this effect by applying multiple layers of paint, using palette knives, brushes, and some unconventional tools (think drywall scrapers and squirt bottles), creating complex surfaces with tremendous depth.

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Ray Del Muro

Ray del Muro grew up in San Gabriel, California and graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with bachelor’s and master’s degree in industrial technology. While working for an aerospace component manufacturer, he resigned to travel the world and fell in love with photography.

Tessa Nicole

Tessa Nicole began painting for the first time in 2015 & has been working solely with palette knife since January of 2017. Beginning with oils & self-taught from the very beginning, Tessa has remained 100% original in all of their techniques, applications, & styles. In July of 2020, Tessa officially coined their original style -Textured Pointillism. Working solely with palette knife, Tessa has found a way to incorporate the often-forgotten Post-Impressionist movement of Pointillism, & is giving it new life. With a passion for traveling, but an innate love for their home in Arizona, Tessa draws inspiration from places near & far.

John Nieto

Nieto was one of the most beloved and prominent contemporary artists in the country. His artwork is saturated in rich meaning and bright colors. He is known for his captivating portraits of people and animals of the southwest. His artwork has strong National American Tribal influences.

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Doug Oliver

Doug Oliver was a significant contributor to the art of the American West for more than three decades. His landscape images of soaring skies and panoramic vistas are well known throughout the contemporary art world.

Michael Tatom

Tatom has been a jeweler and sculptor for more than twenty-five years. Born in Los Alamos, N.M. Michael was raised in a family of artists and designers. "The main focus of my work is to translate into bronze the essence of the animal, to capture some movement or instinct and present it in a simple stylized form."

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Ray Tigerman

Born in Nevada, Ray was influenced at an early age by the works of Earl Biss, Fritz Scholder, and Ed Mell. Ray spent his youth recreating vibrant landscapes and subjects native to the high desert region where he spent his childhood. Ray was the recipient of numerous school, gallery, and festival awards before embarking on his formal art education, earning a BFA in design from Watkins College of Art and Design in Nashville, Tennessee. He has developed an acute attention to space, composition, and abstract form associated with many of his influences, subsequently refining his own visual and conceptual vocabulary. The evolution of his bold, vibrant work continues to emerge through his passion, understanding, and depiction to the indigenous southwestern people and wildlife in their dramatic environment.

Nicholas Wilson

Wilson has had an interest in nature every since he was a child. Wilson has been a painter, sculptor and printmaker for over 50 years.  His main career focus has been on wildlife art, where he has a special emphasis on drawing.

Diane West

West likes to create Southwestern and Native American-themed masks and other artistic pieces utilizing gourds as her medium. Natural feathers, botanical materials and stones are used to enhance the inherent beauty of the gourds, which she has been focused on creating since retiring and moving to Arizona in 1998. 

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Bling by Wilkening

Founded in 2007 from Whitney Wilkening’s desire to offer jewelry that would wear as the finest jewelry, with the same settings and platings, but that would be exceptionally affordable. She has consulted with Garrard of London, the jewelry company who created the Crown Jewels and was jeweler to the English Royal Family for over 300 years. 

Studio Jere

At a young age Jere Moskovitz, learned from her mother and grandmother how to knit and crochet. After earning a BFA in Apparel Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, she began a 20-year career in the apparel industry. Moskovitz’ education and travels  inspired her decision to create textile-inspired jewelry by applying knitting and crochet techniques to copper wire.

Eagle's Heart Designs

Lin Ward uses her love of color, texture and design to inspire her jewelry. While an art major at Kansas State University, she learned to use color and balance in her creations. She makes pieces that are not only unique and visually pleasing, but are also comfortable to wear.

When not in her studio, you will find Lin in her garden or riding her horse, Hooch. The wonderful views from the back of a horse constantly inspire more creativity.