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.