SPRING BREAK - 2011

Let’s take a break! The Loft Galeria has the attitude that Spring is Bold and Spring is Vibrant. Spring is also the time for renewal.

Once again “The Season” seems to be winding down, but The Loft Galeria continues to exhibit great paintings and drawings by great artists. Also, we at The Loft are pleased to continue our tradition of substantial end of season values. Old friends and new collectors can expect to find significant well-positioned works by many of their favorite artists. For those interested in adding to their collections or for those who seek to begin what will become a lifelong enjoyment of acquiring artwork of intrinsic quality, we take great pride in showing many of the finest artists of the Americas.

As before, we trumpet the belief that painting is not dead. In the past year records have been set both at auction and in the private marketplace for artworks by painters past and present. In a year that has repeatedly witnessed the indispensability of painting and drawing, we experience a revitalized appreciation of fine art produced by artists whose patience and training allow them to technically accomplish that which they set out to do.

The Loft Galeria has exhibited beautiful works of art from many of the finest practitioners currently working on a national level in Mexico: Paintings by Carlos Vargas Pons, Reynaldo Diaz Zesati, Davis Birks and Guanajuato’s Dean Gazely. The wonderful Ethiopian artist Wosene Worke Kosrof continues to dazzle in the wake of his critically acclaimed exhibition at the National Museum of Ethiopia. Maxie Perez Sutton and Loren Salazar give us their unique approaches to the surreal. Of course we must include the award winning watercolors of Meg Munro as well as important paintings by the Great Master Draftsman Harry Carmean and the whimsical works of Paul Huber. The new paintings of Nicola Wheston show her appetite for the light and flora of the tropics. The Loft now also features select works of Bill White and a wonderful selection of paintings and drawings by Susan Seaberry. Included as well is a marvelous set of photo paintings from the Barbie series by Claudia Delgado Porter. Many of these artists are truly making their mark in expanding art circles and their works are represented in public and private collections throughout the world. The Loft Galeria also proudly maintains a selection of works by Latin American masters such as Wifredo Lam, Rodolfo Morales, Jose Luis Cuevas, Javier Arevalo and early drawings by Gunter Gerzo.

Visit The Loft Galeria at 176A Corona, just steps up from the Malecon in the Central Historic District of Puerto Vallarta and enjoy the variety of strong works of power and beauty that have become its signature.

Private gallery tours and events can be arranged and are welcome.

Member: Centro Historico Art Walk Association

John C. Strawn

Director

The Loft Galeria

MEG MUNRO - NEW PAINTINGS 2011

The Loft Galeria is proud to present new paintings by Puerto Vallarta’s premier watercolorist, Meg Munro.

Continuing to explore the wondrous beauty to be found in the world around her, these new paintings demonstrate Meg’s strength of spirit and profound ability and artistic range. From tonalist works to the fiery representational, Meg Munro’s paintings are thoroughly unified in their expression of nature’s gifts.

Watercolor can be an unforgiving medium. Mistakes are difficult to mask and unless the artist practices a loose and sketchy approach to the work, the planning stages in watercolor take on great importance. Meg’s approaches appear to be two-fold: always a very specific plan to the painting to anticipate problems that must be solved, then she may use a more pointillist method in some works while in others a more deeply saturated application of the paint. However, as always, we find her taking great care with the quality and direction of the light and shadow to form a perfect unity.

These new paintings find Meg Munro at the peak of her powers of observation and skill.

Also on exhibit will be selected works from this season’s previous showings.

Stay tuned for our upcoming exhibition of figurative works in March. This show will include gallery favorites such as Harry Carmean, Carlos Vargas Pons, Nicola Wheston with Reynaldo Diaz Zesati and Paul Huber as well as for the first time, the works of Lawrence Gipe and Susan Seaberry An added surprise will be a new series of “photographic paintings” from her exciting Barbie Series, by stalwart Claudia Delgado Porter.

Private gallery tours and events can be arranged and are welcome.

Member: Centro Historico Art Walk Association

John C. Strawn

Director

The Loft Galeria

The Lay of the Land II

The Loft Galeria is very pleased to present its second annual exhibition of landscape paintings. This year we will be including beautiful paintings by artists who are new to the gallery, but not new to appreciators of fine art. Jorge Monroy, Helmut Bournemann , Dean Gazeley and Michael Drury have each exhibited their works far and wide. Monroy is a highly regarded watercolorist living in Guadalajara who is regularly featured in El Informador. Dean Gazeley, practicing his art from the lovely colonial city of Guanajuato where he also teaches, has had a number if important exhibitions throughout Mexico and Helmut Bournemann has been painting his entire lifetime and has shown from Chile to Canada. Michael Drury reflects the classic passion of the plein aire painter who revisits beloved landscapes from California, Nevada, Michigan and Ireland over and over, each time finding a new interpretation reflecting the light and terrain of a time and a place.

No less of a personality than Frank Lloyd Wright observed: "No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other." He, of course, was commenting on humankind's seeming need to overpower its surroundings, rather than becoming one with them and reveling in our proper and sublime relationship to nature.
Landscape painting evolved and developed over time. The landscape was generally utilized as a point of reference for a particular subject in a painting, but has since become both the focus and the subject, in and of itself.

Along with gallery favorites Carlos Vargas Pons, Meg Munro, Nicola Wheston, Nicole Strasburg and others, The Loft Galeria seeks to broaden the conversation by once again going against the grain of the latest trends in art. The artists represented in this exhibition of new and selected works seek to show us the simple beauty of that which lies before us: The land, the sky, the sea and our relationship to the infinite life within them all.

The Loft Galeria is Celebrating Five Great Years!

This season marks The Loft Galeria’s fifth year in Puerto Vallarta and we are celebrating. Over the course of the next several months the gallery will be exhibiting the works of a number of fine artists for the first time, as well as continuing our tradition of exhibitions focusing on various disciplines and will include new paintings, drawings and sculptures of gallery favorites.

Currently the gallery is premiering new insightful and whimsical paintings by Paul Huber and the beautiful still lifes of Dean Gazeley. For discerning collectors we also are showing a new acquisition by the late Mexican Master, Rodolfo Morales, as well as showing early works of Gunther Gerzo and various gems by Meg Munro, Tara Gimmer, Carlos Vargas Pons Helmuth Bourneman and Reynaldo Diaz Zesati. And as always we have a fine collection of paintings and drawings by that Master Draughtsman, Harry Carmean.

The season began with the gallery celebrating the artists of the I Madonarri tradition who come each year to Puerto Vallarta and create beautiful public works in the Plaza. This annual event has grown from the relationship of the Sister Cities of Santa Barbara and Puerto Vallarta and promises to expand in the future. It is our great honor to aid in the development of this unique artistic event.

On December 15 2010 we will stage our annual exhibition: Driven To Abstraction which will feature new works of Wosene Kosrof, Michael Costantini, Mario Cinquemani and others. This has become a most exciting show of contemporary and modern abstracted painting and sculpture and is not to be missed.

The Loft Galeria will also follow last year’s successful landscape show, The Lay of the Land with an exhibition of new paintings by Meg Munro, Dean Gazeley and others and will for the first time show selected paintings of Michael Drury who works in the pure Plein Aire tradition. That exhibition will be followed by our figurative show, Figure North-Figure South and further exhibits to be announced, notably the annual display of new paintings by Puerto Vallarta’s premier watercolorist, Meg Munro.

Visit The Loft Galeria, A Collector’s Gallery, Calle Corona 176A (Upstairs)
El Centro, Puerto Vallarta. 322-222-6353
Private gallery tours and events can be arranged and are welcome.
Member: Centro Historico Art Walk Association

Upstairs Downstairs 2010

THE LOFT GALERIA – UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS - 2010

This season marks its fourth year of exhibitions in Puerto Vallarta and The Loft Galeria is celebrating with a mix of new works by fine artists from near and far. Having just ended its very successful and highly lauded show of landscapes, The Lay Of The Land, The Loft Galeria inaugurates an exhibition of new paintings by several of its most deeply collected artists as well as introduces works to Puerto Vallarta of significant mid career and emerging Mexican painters Rodolfo de Florencia and Enrique Hernandez.

Upstairs Downstairs – 2010 happens to open on February 10, and February is the month the gallery has traditionally premiered new paintings by one of its favorites, Meg Munro. Meg’s many fans and followers will not be disappointed. In this show we are treated to a stunning new body of watercolors that continue her exploration of glass bottles as a basis of still life composition. Many know that Meg was recently bestowed with the Artist Magazine Award at the National Watercolor Society’s annual convention. Her award winning painting, Adieu Adios, is currently part of a touring exhibit in the United States throughout 2010.

In a city that has grown in stature as a destination for collectors and admirers of art, The Loft has been fortunate to work with and promote the works of a vast array of fine artists and has mounted many of Puerto Vallarta’s most interesting and far-reaching exhibitions. From the early works of Gunter Gerzo, to introducing the contemporary paintings of Monterrey’s Reynaldo Diaz Zesati and intriguing conceptual pieces and rare paintings by the renowned multi-dimensional Davis Birks. Master prints, paintings and drawings of Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo, Wifredo Lam and Javier Arevalo are typically part of the fare as well as paintings, drawings and prints of living master Harry Carmean, and the great Ethiopian abstract painter, Wosene Kosrof. Nor can we leave out the wonderful exhibitions of Carlos Vargas Pons, Mario Cinquemani, Claudia Delgado Porter, Paul Huber, Nicola Wheston, Tara Gimmer and many others.

Each of these artists has helped to shape a most unique and intriguing collection. One that draws from sources and inspirations in equal parts past and future and present. Utilizing the post-industrial housing form or the loft as its foundation, the gallery spaces are both intimate and spacious, allowing for a variety of exhibitions.

As the home serves as both a refuge and as a means of representing its occupants, The Loft Galeria serves to aid those occupants in their desires to express themselves with works of power and beauty. The gallery seeks to encourage, support and promote artists and their works in ways that allow for the continued expression of their innermost creative impulses while also helping to develop their careers.

In a world marketplace that is driven in large part by commercialization, artspeak and pontification, pitting the importance of one sort of artwork against another, The Loft Galeria embraces a very simple foundation of quality, beauty and value for its collectors. Art for Art’s Sake is an old axiom that the gallery holds as guidance to aid in its continued explorations. That art is necessary to our existence, that it stands on its own merits and that it need not always refer to often overwrought and complex validations by outside arbiters of taste.

Visit The Loft Galeria at 176A Corona, just steps up from the Malecon in the Central Historic District of Puerto Vallarta and enjoy the variety of strong works of power and beauty that have become its signature.

ArtWalk Season Opens With Day of the Dead

DAY OF THE DEAD-DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

DAY OF THE DEAD-DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

THE LOFT GALERIA Kicks off the 2009 – 2010 ArtWalk Season in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with a wonderful exhibition of new works created specifically in Celebration of: THE DAY OF THE DEAD-DIA DE LOS MUERTOS.

Three artists offer unique explorations of the Mexican culture and its fondness for the whimsical. Powerful new paintings by PAUL HUBER, gorgeous assemblage pictures by MAXIE PEREZ SUTTON and a series of photographs a year in the making, virtually a show within a show, entitled “LIFE AND DEATH” by TARA GIMMER.

All of these artists have had a love affair with the Puerto Vallarta area, and Mexico, for many years. We invite you to enjoy these diverse examples of fine work by dedicated practitioners of fine art, each with their own delightful interpretation of this important Mexican tradition.

At The Loft Galeria, in a setting evoking the great urban Art Spaces and located in the historic art zone of Puerto Vallarta, respect and passion for art is reflected in the manner of its presentation.

It is the mission of The Loft Galeria to present exhibitions featuring works of the finest contemporary and modern artists of the Americas and to provide value and service in assisting individuals and corporations in developing their collections.

OPENING: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28TH, 2009 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

THE LOFT GALERIA
CALLE CORONA 176A
CENTRO, PUERTO VALLARTA, MX
52-322-222-5353

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