From May 6-31, New Mexico’s Marigold Arts will present a group exhibition of landscape paintings of the southwest by gallery artists, including Richard Tashjian, Don Mundt, and Robert Highsmith.
Tashjian is an American-born Armenian, Mundt hails from Montana, and Highsmith was born in Alaska but has spent most of his life in Las Cruces, N.M. All three are at the peak of mature painting careers and have fallen in love with the big sky and open spaces of the western landscape, which each interprets in his own way.
Tashjian has been an accomplished plein-air painter and intrepid world traveler for decades. He served in World War II as an aerial photographer for the U.S. Navy. That perspective is sometimes still evident in his landscape paintings in oil, acrylic, and watercolor. Tashjian is a master colorist whose work shows the influence of cubism and of Arshile Gorky.
Don H. Mundt’s watercolors are small, dreamy, wide-angle studies in color. His paintings have been exhibited throughout the west. His work is well represented in private collections throughout the United States and in Canada, Japan, and Germany.
Robert Highsmith’s watercolors make strong, simple statements that capture the light and landscapes of the southwest, evincing equal parts technical virtuosity and heart. His work exhibits a softness of light, shadow, and brush that can only be accomplished with the immediacy of watercolor, complemented by the stark contrasts that lend the work its photorealism. Highsmith’s work has been widely shown across the United States and has won more than one hundred awards.
A reception with the artists will take place on Fri., May 6 from 5-7 p.m.
To learn more, visit www.marigoldarts.com.
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