Three Artists Paint at Galleria Dante
 Claire Guarniere - PVNN
November 21, 2009
| | Artist Oscar Solis (above) and his wife, Juana Cortez, will be painting at Galleria Dante on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am til 2 pm. (photo by Monroe V. Davids) | |
Three painters will be painting in Galleria Dante this week. Artists who love Vallarta for the brilliant colors that inspire their paintings. There is also a spirit here that attracts artists and collectors to Vallarta.
Cherie Sibley who has gained fame for her technique painting water and water fowl, switches it up this season by painting a series with palate knife titled "Italian laundry". She loves to teach and is one of the few art schools that teaches all year.
Cherie dreams of retiring and doing nothing more than painting. Of course she also loves to travel to gain subject matter to paint, but both passions go hand in hand. For anyone who has followed her progress the last five years, they stand in awe in front of her new paintings. Cherie can be found on Fridays painting in the gallery from 10 am till 1 pm.
Juana Cortez and Oscar Solis paint on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 am til 2 pm. They are married and almost always paint together, so we refer to them as a team, although they paint different subjects.
Oscar likes to surprise us by painting new works, as he gets restless with the routine of only horses, or Africans, or American Indians, or birds, animals & still lifes. Juana is passionate about Mexican women and children and loves to immortalize "her people" on canvas, first photographing her subjects.
Oscar likes the interaction and the attention from on lookers, his brush flitting across the canvas where the painting jumps to life. He may shock his fan club when he grabs a cloth and wipes the canvas clean, but it minutes he seems to have the painting back and moving forward. Juana, on the other hand, shyer and more pensive prefers to paint, concentrating on her textiles, which she has mastered in great detail – a signature of the tribe she is honoring with her brush.
Visit Galleria Dante this week and meet these three great artists. Also this month we received hundreds of new works. Sculptures by Luis Espiridion, Oscar Zamarripa and Alvaro Zardoni. Paintings from Israel Zzepda, Luis Valui, Beatriz Hidalgo De la Garza, Leticia Schmidt, Pipo Brockman, Cherie Sibley, Oscar Solis, Juana Cortez, and Peter Spataro.
Also arriving in late November are many new paintings by Yvan Genest and Jean-Gabriel Lambert, plus sculptures by Guillermo Gomez.
Open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm, Galleria Dante is located at Basilio Badillo #269 on the South Side of Puerto Vallarta. |
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