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.