Resident Artists Of Marathon
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Mary Baxter
With a keen eye for the subtle and quiet beauty of the desert Mary has found her place painting landscapes and animals from the Big Bend area. She paints in oils and watercolors, and sculpts desert creatures in various mediums. Her work is available through the Baxter Gallery in Marathon website: www.baxtergallery.com |
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A chihuahuan Desert Garden; Bill & Joan Carlisle |
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James Evans
James Evans has been photographing the people and landscapes of the Big Bend and across its border since 1988. He opened Evans Gallery in 1990, and has become the longest resident photographer and gallery owner in Big Bend. His book, “Big Bend Pictures”, is in its second printing and a best seller with the UT Press. Evans Gallery is located in Marathon, Texas, 4 doors down from the Gage Hotel. His work is in collections at The Museum of Fine Art , Houston, The Harry Ransom Center, Austin, The El Paso Museum, The Beaumont Museum of Art, The Longview Museum of Fine Art, The Art Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi), The Southwest Texas Writers and Photography Collection as well as many private collections. website: www.jameshevans.com |
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Lloyd Goldwire
Lloyd Max Goldwire was born and raised among the rugged canyons and open vistas of West Texas. His sculpture is inspired by rock art paintings and petroglyphs found on his family ranch and throughout the Trans-Pecos and Big Bend regions. The "shaman" sculptures he creates in bronze are an attempt to interpret in three-dimensions what early medicine men and women might have thought that they looked like- part human, part animal- during their peyote-induced "journeys". He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and his art and design work have won several awards through the years. He is a designer of home decor as well as bronze awards for various cook-off events. Lloyd Max's work can be seen in Marathon at his Shaman Springs Gallery at 103 E. Hwy 90 or online. Website: www.shamansprings.com |
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E. Dan Klepper
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Mimi Litschauer
Mimi Litschauer's desire to make fine art her life began in her youth which included many classes in painting, drawing, ballet, and piano. Her parents inspired her and impressed upon her "the excitement for the unknown, the addiction for the new. After attending several college level art courses, Mimi realized that she belonged in nature (en plein air) and chose to study with several professional artists who were working "in the field. She moved from Wisconsin to the foothills of Colorado to surround herself with the most insightful and inspiring painters and sculptors living there at the time. Since then she has devoted years and miles to gathering "on location" experience and is currently living near and exploring our 10th largest National Treasure, Big Bend National Park. website: www.mimilitschauer.com |
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James A. Mangum
James A. Mangum makes saints of all types, large and small. He also creates nativities, nichos, retablos, bultos, trasteros, roperos, and other religious folk art. Jim's work is often made from recycled materials: scrap lumber, old cloth, discarded tin, and other found objects. His hand-carved saints (bultos) are clothed in fabric-mache and then adorned with tin halos, crowns, auras and found object accessories. They are often housed in nichos. His nativities are uniquely designed using these materials and contain from 5-20 carved characters, depending on size. Hand-made furniture (trasteros/cabinets and roperos/wardrobes) in Southwest style include carvings and paintings of saints. Mangum also paints pictures on old tin and wood (retablos), folk art Texas landscapes, and carves full-size carousel animals. Jim's work has been featured in Galeria Ortiz, located in Market Square and the Ursuline Gallery at the Southwest School of Arts and Crafts in San Antonio, along with galleries in Fredericksburg and Round Top. In August 2007, Mangum was Butte- Silver Bow Arts Foundation (Montana) artist-in-residence. |
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Luc Novovitch
After two decades working as a photojournalist in Europe, Africa and the U.S., Luc Novovitch came to the Big Bend area of Texas in 1998. Seduced by the desert and mountains landscape, he decided to move to Marathon and concentrate anew on fine art photography. Born in Morocco and raised in Switzerland and France, Novovitch opened the Sotol Gallery on Marathon’s main street, where from 1999 to 2004 he displayed his landscapes and other works, such as the Roping Series and the Dry Series, along with the photographs of other Chihuahuan Desert photographers. In late 2004 Novovitch returned to documentary photography and photojournalism. His fine art photography is now available through the Highland Gallery in Marfa. Luc Novovitch photos are in private collections and have been exhibited at galleries in New York, Washington, and at the prestigious Fondation Internationale de la Photographie in France, where his pictures from a voyage to Japan were the subject of a one-man show. Website: www.offiwent.com |
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Dan Picasso
The hidden personalities of everyday objects are brought to life in Dan Picasso's intricate airbrush pieces, often inspired by the underworld culture of popular mechanics. Painstakingly cut stencils defy an age of computer-generated pop art, with each line and gradation of color hand-cut and airbrushed. Rife with irony and political expression, Picasso's pieces employ a dreamlike, pulp-fiction style and familiar stylistic icons to bring forth new expressions of current events. Like walking through a 1940's detective novel, he brings to life crisp, realistic expression off-set by surreal personification, merrily engaging the brazenly obvious to showcase the underlying subtleties of the familiar. dpicasso@sbcglobal.net |
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Wes Spears
With over 30 years of experience working with wood, metal, and trees, everything that Wesley Spears works on will have his signature on it. He has an eye on perfection and his furniture will hold your attention. website: www.sonworksgallery.coms |
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Carol Townsend
Carol studied photography at Cambridge Community College in Cambridge, MN. Since moving to Marathon in 1995 she has had many photographs in the Big Bend Travel Guide and also had one of her photographs featured on a postcard used by the Marathon Chamber of Commerce. Carol displays her work at the Courtyard Café at the Marathon Motel and RV Park on Hwy 90 in Marathon. email: crltownsend@yahoo.com |