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CAS Member News
Featured Artists
Kim Sanchez
I would call myself a mixed-media acrylic abstract artist. I am a native Texan and call Austin home. I love using color, texture and line making to evoke emotions in people. I am enjoying my art journey and am always evolving and learning. View Kim's work at: www.kimsanchezart.com
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Robb McKenzie
Painter, then potter, then painter and potter with an occasional tye-dyer. Seems I can't figure what I want to create, so I just follow my muse. I have been an artist in one form or another for as long as I can remember, if you loosely define artist. My mother was impressed when as a young child that I could draw all the characters from my Mickey Mouse comics with extreme accuracy. Art classes are the only one's I enjoyed throughout my school years and college, then life took over. While focusing on earning a livelihood and supporting my family, I still dabbled in art, then I reached an age where I didn't need to worry about working for money. Now art is about all I do, any art. View Robb's work at: http://robbmckenzie.com
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New Members
Sumathy Parthasarathy
I am a self taught artist and I dabble in water color, chalk pastel and acrylic medium.
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Zezelia Olson
My artwork is abstract micro pen drawings.
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New Family Members
Israel and Rachel Guardado
Family memberships – additional name: Rachel Snee
Rachel's art: "Trust Your Mark."
Painting & drawing help me both to soothe the chaotic mind chimes and communicate what complex words cannot.
Art has been my refuge since I was a child. As a result, I work intuitively, lending way to stylistic variety and pure expression. As a self-taught (and ever-learning) artist, acrylic and digital are my bread and butter. Although I have a growing interest in wood burning, resin, clay and spray paint. I’ll work with any medium I can get my hands on!
Israel's art: "Art is my therapy."
After deployment, life was never the same. Issues both visible to the eye and not, plagued me. The act of creativity reduces symptoms of impulsivity and perseveration by way of facilitating focus, emotional regulation, & exploration. Art allows one to communicate with themselves on an intuitive cognitive level, encouraging wordless expression. Art therapy goals are oriented via the individual process that emerges, not the final product. What matters is the release. Through working with a medium, one may re-experience trauma while simultaneously eliciting reflection and/or new positive associations. This aids in mastering those uncomfortable emotions and re-channeling psychic energy. No matter the vision, the individual must trust their mark and explore the discomfort of jumping out of what is known & familiar. In the end, whether it’s pulling from the mind’s internal circus or what’s before the eyes, a piece isn’t finished until it’s been consciously decided so. There’s power in self control and choice. There’s power in having enough belief in the process to actually create.
View their work at: www.instagram.com/avisualartsnetwork
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Renewing Member
Nancy Wallace
My artwork is abstract painting and collage on canvas.
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Members News and Exhibits
The Hive, Lakeway Painters Show, Riverbend Gallery, & Studio C (Corpus Christi) Art Exhibits
Denise Schneyer is participating in several shows in October/November. The Hive in Bee Cave shows for "Angels" and "Small Works", the Lakeway Painters Annual Show in November, Riverbend Gallery with CAS and is sponsoring a show in her neighborhood of Tuscan Village. In November, Denise will be one of the featured artists at Studio C in Corpus Christi. The show will run November through February and feature her seascapes and wave pictures.
The Hive shows are until January, the Lakeway Painters show is 11/20, Riverbend is October, the Tuscan Village show is 11/5 and the Studio C show is 11/22 through January 2023.
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Katie Conley
Katie Conley sold two commissioned postage stamp collages. “Butterflies” and “Airstream”
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Lines of Interaction, a solo exhibition of works by Larry Akers
Oct 13-29, 2022 Gallery Hours Thurs-Fri-Sat 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm and by appointment.
Opening Reception with Q&A Oct 15, 2022, Saturday 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Closing Reception Oct 29, 2022, Saturday 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Link & Pin granted this solo exhibition to Larry Akers for his Best in Show Award in a group exhibition last Fall at the gallery.
Akers’ fluid, pattern-based imagery is the common denominator in his work. Using layered, patterned, refractive, or reflective materials, color, and light, he produces kinetic sculptures with a twist; the only moving part being the viewer. His goal is to create feasts for visual perception, free of interpretative baggage and appealing to everyone's childlike impulse to grok the unusual.
The challenge to the viewer is to understand, with accessible visual and geometric concepts, how its images can animate, appear to float free from their materials, and present cognitively imposed illusions. The viewer is invited to look ever closer and by doing so, become part of the artwork through their unique internal manipulation of it. His hope is that by their examination, they will better understand both the artworks and the relationship between vision and cognition.
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Larry Akers and Link & Pin Gallery invite you to a CAS-only reception for his new solo exhibition,
Lines of Interaction, at the Link & Pin, 2235 E 6th St. #102, on Sunday, October 30, 3-5pm.
Link & Pin granted this solo exhibition to me for my Best in Show entry in the CAS group exhibition last Fall at the gallery. The show will include new work utilizing layered, digitally created images along with other visually kinetic works in various mixed media. As always, prepare for a feast for the eyes and mind.
We hope this will be a good opportunity to visit with CAS friends as well as viewing the artwork. Here's a big thanks to Debra Watkins for hosting both the CAS show and this exhibition.
Thanks, and I hope to see you.
Larry Akers
https://www.eyeplaystudio.net
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National Collage Society
Maggi Miller's collage, "How Do You Like to go Up in a Swing?" was accepted by the National Collage Society for their juried competition. The show of all accepted entries will take place at the Coburn Gallery of Ashland University beginning on October 27th. Artists who have been accepted three times are awarded a Signature Membership allowing them to post their status on their work. Maggi has been accepted twice now! View her work: maggimiller.com
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