Blue Rain Gallery

ALEX BERNSTEIN, Blue Crystals
Cast and cut glass, fused steel, Overall dimensions: 19.5"h x 14"w x 6"d; Individual pillar dimensions: 1). 19.5"h x 6"w x 3"d, 2). 18.75"h x 4"w x 5.75"d, 3). 19.5"h x 4"w x 6"d

“This series may bring about imagery of natural crystals, something that might have been dug up from nature. But then I expanded it and realized that the pieces really talk to one another and began to also read like landscapes, whether a futuristic cityscape or the Blue Ridge Mountains. The individual elements can be rearranged to create a new visual conversation.”

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505.954.9920

Jim Vogel: Weaving Family, Art, and New Mexican Folklore

"Based out of Dixon, a picturesque village in northern New Mexico, Vogel's artistic journey is a testament to his deep connection to the land, the culture, and the common man's struggle. With a brush in hand and a vision in his heart, Vogel brings to life the rich tapestry of this region through his evocative artwork."

Read the full blog post at https://blueraingallery.com/blog/jim-vogel-weaving-family-art-and-new-mexican-folklore

Blue Rain Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming show of new paintings by Jim Vogel titled “Fabulórico.”

Jim Vogel is one of Blue Rain Gallery’s most celebrated artists. His work connects viewers with the culture of Northern New Mexico, one that is alive and well in rural parts of the state, where time slows down. He is a storyteller at his core, and his bold compositions evoke elements of Depression Era painting, but they are deeply grounded in present day life.

In this new series of work Vogel employs the use of 3D elements that break out of the picture plane or frame. He has experimented with this technique a little in the past, but it is more prevalent in this series. He loves the surprise and playfulness of the subject escaping its confines. This approach also affords Vogel an opportunity to sharpen his carving skills (as well as his carving tools).

JIM VOGEL
Wicked Wind
Oil on canvas panel with carved wooden 3D pop-outs framed with reclaimed industrial pulley (framed in collaboration with Christen Vogel)
Image: 56"dia, framed: 62"dia

JIM VOGEL: Fabulórico
September 29 – October 14, 2023 — Santa Fe
Artist Reception: Friday, September 29th from 5 - 7pm

Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe
544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM
505.954.9902

Santiago: Artist Talk is now available on our website under the blog section ➡️ https://blueraingallery.com/blog/santiago-artist-talk
Thanks to all in attendance for the opening of “Emergence”, a show of new paintings by Roseta Santiago

The show will be on exhibition in our Santa Fe gallery through the end of the month.

544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(505) 954-9902

HOURS
Monday — Friday: 10 am — 6 pm
Saturday: 9 am — 5 pm
Closed Sundays

ALLAN HOUSER, Watching the Eagle
Bronze, edition #3/40 (lifetime casting), 8.25"h x 5"w x 3.5"d

Available at Blue Rain Gallery
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544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
HOURS
Monday — Friday: 10 am — 6 pm
Saturday: 9 am — 5 pm
Closed Sundays

RYAN SINGER, Leaving New Mexico
Acrylic on canvas, 24"h x 20"w

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RYAN SINGER: Return of the Force
Fort Lewis College, Center of Southwest Studies
Durango, CO
September 27, 2023 through August 2024

Join us in Durango tonight for a pottery demonstration by Jody Naranjo during the Durango Fall Gallery Walk 🍂
Artist Demonstration: Friday, September 15th from 5 - 7pm

JODY NARANJO, Thunderbird Pot
Hand-coiled sgraffito-carved natural clay with acrylic paint, 8.75"h x 6.5"dia

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Blue Rain Gallery Durango
934 Main Avenue, Unit B
Durango, Colorado 81301

Santa Fe: Roseta Santiago Artist Talk & Opening Reception tonight from 4 – 7pm

ROSETA SANTIAGO, A Brand New Day
Oil on canvas, 11.5"h x 11.5"w

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544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

The magic and alluring narrative from Jody Naranjo's clay pottery comes alive in her three-dimensional bronze figurines. Each animal has a distinct and exuberant personality that is further embellished by an array of appealing patinas and textures. These eager-eyed statuettes clearly represent the attitude inherent in Naranjo's own personality and approach to art-making: just have fun!

Join us in Durango for a pottery demonstration by Jody Naranjo during the Durango Fall Gallery Walk.
Artist Demonstration: Friday, September 15th from 5 - 7pm

View more bronze works by on our website blueraingallery.com

934 Main Avenue, Unit B
Durango, Colorado 81301
(970) 232-2033

Join us for Roseta Santiago’s Artist Talk and Opening Reception, Friday, September 15th from 4 - 7pm at our Santa Fe gallery

544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM
505.954.9902

ROSETA SANTIAGO, Night Geisha
Oil on distressed linen and gold leaf, Image: 46"h x 36"w

SANTIAGO: Guadalupe Street Feature
September 15 – 30, 2023 — Santa Fe
Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Friday, September 15th from 4 - 7pm

ROSETA SANTIAGO
A Future Together
Oil on canvas, Image: 15.5"h x 15.5"w

Canadian Blackfeet Federation Actor from Dark Winds and Wonder Woman at Blue Rain Gallery with painter Roseta Santiago who will unveil his portrait September 14th at our Santa Fe gallery.
Join us for a painting demo by Roseta Santiago Thursday, September 14th from 11 am - 4 pm

Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe
544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM
505.954.9902

JODY NARANJO, Horse Pot
Hand-coiled sgraffito-carved natural clay with acrylic paint, 5"h x 5.25"dia

Available at Blue Rain Gallery, 505.954.9902

Fall Gallery Walk Artist Demo
Join us for a pottery demonstration by Jody Naranjo during the Durango Fall Gallery Walk.
Artist Demonstration: Friday, September 15th from 5 - 7pm

934 Main Avenue, Unit B
Durango, Colorado 81301
(970) 232-2033

Ryan Singer will be featured at Fort Lewis College, Center for Southwest Studies September 27, 2023 through August 2024

RETURN OF THE FORCE

The Return of the Force explores the significant influence the Star Wars movies have had on contemporary Native artists through an innovative collection of work that addresses themes such as resistance, place, belonging, and Indigenous knowledge. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, September 27 at 5:30 PM in the Center of Southwest Studies exhibit galleries, with an artist panel from 6:00 PM to 6:45 PM in the Lyceum. The Return of the Force will run through August 2024 and include a suite of programming throughout the year.

The exhibition will feature works by over twenty artists including Ryan Singer (Diné). Singer is known for paintings that reference both Indigenous and mainstream popular culture.

The Return of the Force was made possible through generous grants from the City of Durango Lodgers’ Tax Arts and Culture Fund and the La Plata Electric Association Round Up Foundation.

https://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/exhibits-events



Artwork: RYAN SINGER, Outlaw
Acrylic on canvas, 20"h x 20"d

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Join us for a pottery demonstration by Jody Naranjo during the Durango Fall Gallery Walk.

Artist Demonstration: Friday, September 15th from 5 - 7pm

Jody Naranjo’s pots are immediately recognizable – her hand-crafted vessels feature striking shapes and combine Native symbols with graphic simplicity. Her work is steeped in ancestry and legacy, and today she proudly carries on her heritage with a creative twist. Since the age of four, Naranjo has been working with clay at her ancestral homeland and birthplace, the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico. It was here she learned the traditional methods of collecting and processing clay, hand-coiling forms, sgraffito carving, and firing pots under the mentorship of her mother Dolly Naranjo, grandmother Rose Naranjo, and aunts Nora Naranjo-Morse and Jody Folwell. Naranjo began attending the Santa Fe Indian Market with her family at the age of eight and has kept her same booth there ever since. Her signature cartoonish motifs were initially included in her work because of her three young daughters, but Naranjo soon discovered that the fun graphics appealed to more than just children. Naranjo and collectors alike appreciate these cheerful, artfully simple designs because they are worth smiling about. Her designs often include the animals, people, nature, and Pueblo scenes iconic to New Mexico. Her unique, upbeat and innovative art has earned her many first-prize ribbons and a loyal following of fans and collectors around the world.

934 Main Avenue, Unit B
Durango, Colorado 81301
(970) 232-2033

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JODY NARANJO

Mixed Animal Pot
Hand-coiled sgraffito-carved natural clay with acrylic paint, 6"h x 5.5"dia

Jody Naranjo - Fall Gallery Walk Artist Demo
September 15, 2023 — Durango
Join us for a pottery demonstration by Jody Naranjo during the Durango Fall Gallery Walk.
Artist Demonstration: Friday, September 15th from 5 - 7pm

934 Main Avenue, Unit B
Durango, Colorado 81301
(970) 232-2033

Join us in Santa Fe next week for a painting demo, artist talk, and opening reception of new works by Roseta Santiago

Painting Demonstration
Thursday, September 14th from 11 am - 4 pm

Guadalupe Street Feature
Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Friday, September 15th from 4 - 7pm


The compelling paintings of Roseta Santiago arise from a vivid dream world. Her art is a gateway into the hearts of her subjects and a conduit for expressing the artist’s emotional contemplation of the world around her.

Following a successful career in commercial design, which funded her move to Santa Fe and allowed her to devote long, intense hours to developing her skills as a fine art painter, Santiago has risen to become one of America’s leading contemporary artists.

Faces inspire Santiago and are often the foundation for a new painting. “I always know when I see a face whether or not I want to paint it,” she says. “It’s not necessarily classic ideas of beauty that draw me—often it is something arresting, unique, a suggested revelatory character that shines through that I want to capture.”


SANTIAGO, Joaquin
Oil on linen panel, Image: 35"h x 22"w

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544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Simplicity and beauty combine fluidly in the sculpture of Bruce LaFountain. Bruce has created a body of work that has redefined the concept of typical Native American sculpture.
Raised on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, Bruces unique ancestry is Chippewa, French and Cree. This heritage is reflected in his sculpture through his use of the warrior image and animal motifs. Bruce draws from his Native American heritage to bring life experiences to completion through sculpture.

Today, Bruce LaFountain is considered to be one of the masters of modern contemporary sculpture. Bruces work can be found in museums, galleries and private collections throughout the country, including the Smithsonian.

BRUCE LAFOUNTAIN, Untitled
Bronze with patinas, edition #1/20, With base: 24"h x 15.5"w x 8"d

View more sculpture by Bruce LaFountain at Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe or online at blueraingallery.com

KATHRYN STEDHAM, Paint Rider
Oil on canvas, 20"h x 24"w

Available at Blue Rain Gallery

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RUSSELL SANCHEZ, Avanyu Blackware Jar with Turquoise and Coral Inlay
Natural clay with Kingsman turquoise, Sleeping Beauty turquoise, heishi turquoise and Mediterranean coral inlay, 7"h x 6.5"dia

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Every piece of pottery by Russell Sanchez displays a distinctive flair. He learned the techniques of traditional San Ildefonso Pueblo pottery making from his aunt, renowned potter Rose Gonzales. San Idelfonso is known for it's black on black pottery, but Sanchez has created his own individual style by continually exploring new colors, shapes and designs. Often he embeds native materials such as strands of turquoise or Heishi Shell beads and larger turquoise stones in the clay, or created borders of copper, gold or silver leaf to outline medallions featuring carved figures. He recently won SWAIA’s 2022 Santa Fe Indian Market Best of Show.

View more pottery by at our Santa Fe Gallery, or online at blueraingallery.com

544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Opening tonight at Blue Rain Gallery DURANGO: Rimi Yang, First Friday Feature

Opening Reception: Friday, September 1st from 5 - 7pm

Join us in Durango for the First Friday Artwalk, featuring a selection of paintings by Rimi Yang.

View more artwork by Rimi Yang on our website: https://blueraingallery.com/artists/rimi-yang/view-all

Kathryn Stedham: “Spirit of the West” will be on exhibition at Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe through September 9th

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Kathryn’s artist reception this past Friday.

In a series of landscape paintings contained only by the limits of the canvas, Stedham seeks to project an image of the Southwest that is both enduring and true. She feels a strong desire to be in the Southwest, absorbing all that the landscape has to offer.

Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe
544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(505) 954-9902

Sean Diediker’s sweeping, faceted brushstrokes and painterly surfaces generate works that reveal the artist's sensitivity to his medium and attention to the act of painting itself. Diediker assembles bold colors, chiaroscuro and a cutting-edge sense of design to create a highly original body of work that separates him from his contemporaries.

What the viewer is brought closer to are portraits, still-lives, landscapes and combinations of these forms that are balanced and timeless. All of Diediker's works are tied together by their solid sense of form and compositional structure. Whatever he paints, the same expressive vision and reaction to subject and medium are present. "I enjoy the whole creative process, taking an idea and constructing a painting around it," states Diediker, whose father is a general contractor, "I feel I paint much in the same way that my father would erect a building. Much thought in planning, careful design, step by step and layer upon layer, until the work is done and standing on its own."

SEAN DIEDIKER, Nocturnal Harmony
Oil on canvas, Image: 36"h x 36"w

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544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(505) 954-9902

HOURS
Monday — Friday: 10 am — 6 pm
Saturday: 9 am — 5 pm
Closed Sundays

KATHRYN STEDHAM, Moon on High, Ghost Ranch
Oil on linen, 16"h x 20"w

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Find jewelry by Belle Brooke at our Santa Fe and Durango locations ✨

Belle Brooke Barer established Belle Brooke Designs in 2006 upon her return to Los Angeles. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Barer ventured westward in 1997 to attend Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Her studies at Pitzer concentrated in various mediums of studio art, focusing mainly on photography. After moving north to the San Francisco Bay area, she began her jewelry studies at The Crucible in Berkeley, California, and later attended the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco, where she received her professional certification as a goldsmith. After completing her studies, she worked for Studio 311 as a bench jeweler. Belle has been the recipient of various awards most notably the AGTA Spectrum awards in 2012 and 2018, the Mort Abelson New Designer of the Year award in 2008, and the Halstead Grant in 2007. She currently makes her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

BELLE BROOKE
Luz Mandala Collar Necklace
Satin finish sterling silver with oxidized interior, GVS diamonds (0.14ct), and sterling silver chain/clasp, Chain: 17", pendant: 1"h x 1 3/8"w

Blue Rain Gallery Santa Fe
544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(505) 954-9902

Blue Rain Gallery Durango
934 Main Avenue, Unit B
Durango, Colorado 81301
(970) 232-2033

KATHRYN STEDHAM, Sun Gold on the Chama
Oil on canvas, 22"h x 28"w

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KATHRYN STEDHAM: Spirit of the West
August 25 – September 9, 2023 — Santa Fe

544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Introducing Ross Richmond

For the majority of his career, Ross Richmond's sculptures have focused mainly on the figure, capturing a moment, a gesture, a quiet interaction between people or an individual and their thoughts. Animals have also played an important role in his work, either being included along with the figurative pieces referencing humans relationship with the natural world, or more recently the animal as stand alone pieces highlighting the forms of these natural and elegant creatures portraying them in an almost human manner.

Ross has been working with glass since 1991, where he took his first glass class while studying to be an illustrator at the Cleveland Institute of Art, graduating with a BFA majoring in Glass with a minor in small metals (jewelry) in 1994. Ross began working with the glass master William Morris in 1997 and worked alongside him until his retirement in 2007.

During his career Ross has worked with and for some of the greatest glass and non glass artists, including William Morris, Jane Rosen, Preston Singletary and Dale Chihuly, who have all been mentors and inspirations throughout his artistic journey.

View work by Ross Richmond at our Durango Gallery
934 Main Avenue, Unit B
Durango, Colorado 81301
(970) 232-2033

Artwork: ROSS RICHMOND, Cavallo Bianco
Blown Glass, 18"h x 6"w x 9"d

Opening this Friday at Blue Rain Gallery Durango ~ Select works by Rimi Yang

Rimi Yang: First Friday Feature
Opening Reception: Friday, September 1st from 5 - 7pm



Korean-American artist Rimi Yang was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. She moved to the United States in 1986 and shortly after, settled in California where she continues to live and work today. In addition to having exhibited wide ly across the US and Canada throughout her career, the artist has recently been shown in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Dublin and England.

Yang’s paintings -mostly figurative, but with a playful approach to abstraction- reveal an intuitive, contrast-rich take on Eastern and Western art history. It is as though they are struggling to make sense of dualities which simultaneously inspire and confuse us in their attempts to structure the world. Pleasantly suspended between familiar polarities like east-west, male-female, high-low and old-new, the viewer can’t help but be moved by the artist’s apparent search for meaning.

RIMI YANG
Healing Sounds
Oil on canvas, 40"h x 30"w

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Blue Rain Gallery Durango
934 Main Avenue, Unit B
Durango, Colorado 81301

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Painting by Kathryn Stedham

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New Acquisition - RAYMOND GIBBY
“Prickly Perch”
Bronze with patinas, edition of 25, 20.5"h x 9.5"w x 11"d

On view at our Durango location

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Opening Tonight - Kathryn Stedham: Spirit of the West, A New Series of Paintings that Capture the Rugged Richness and Solitude of the Southwest
Landscape with a Modernist Sensibility

Artist Reception: Friday, August 25th from 5 - 7pm

KATHRYN STEDHAM, Home Free
Oil on canvas, 24"h x 30"w

544 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(505) 954-9902

An exhibition of new landscape paintings by Kathryn Stedham opens at Blue Rain Gallery in the Railyard tonight, Friday, August 25, 2023, from 5:00-7:00pm. Black Mesa, Big Sky by Kathryn Stedham, Oil on canvas, 48"h x 48"w. Come by and meet the artist. https://bit.ly/2H4Zw7q https://bit.ly/3gFKAPL

Museum of New Mexico Foundation donors, members and the community are invited to celebrate the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Vladem Contemporary in the Santa Fe Railyard on August 25. Join us on this beautiful Santa Fe summer evening for a free concert by Big Sam's Funky Nation at the Railyard Water Tower at 7 p.m.

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The "Preston Singletary: Dreams From the Spirit World" exhibition is now on view at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe until September 2nd.

Don't miss your chance to see a new collection of glass sculptures featuring a range of sculptural pieces that incorporate imagery and iconography reflective of Singletary's Tlingit culture.

Gift to the Future
Blown and sand carved glass
22.25" x 8.5" x 2"
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Photo: Russell Johnson

RUSSELL SANCHEZ, Blackware Bear and Feather Jar
Natural clay with Sleeping Beauty turquoise and Mediterranean coral inlay, 6.75"h x 4.5"dia

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505.954.9902

Moving to the West in 2005 was a life-changing event that brought Kathryn Stedham face-to-face with a true calling: painting the infinite spaces of the American Southwest. Little did she realize at the time, that this would combine two personal rudiments: painting and contemplation. Forever fascinated with stories about the West and Westward Expansion she explains, “I would happily board a time machine, if there were such a thing, to experience first-hand this important period in American history and our connection to the land.”

Join in Santa Fe, NM, for the opening reception of Kathryn Stedham: “Sprit of the West”, Friday, August 25th from 5 - 7pm


Pony Girl, Oil on canvas
48"h x 48"w

Blue Rain Gallery
544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico
505.954.9902