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Santa Fe – Energy Transfers: Abstractions by Jack Alvarez, Richard Feaster and Rick O’Shea opens with a 5-7 p.m. reception Friday, Sept. 28, at Victoria Price Art & Design, 1512 Pacheco St., in Santa Fe. The exhibition will include paintings and works on paper by the three artists. It will remain on display through Nov. 21.
Jack Alvarez is a third-generation Mexican-American whose cultural identity and ancestry have influenced his work. His recent travels on the Yucatan Peninsula prompted interest in the spiritual realm as perceived by his antecedents, both the Spanish conquerors and the indigenous people of Mexico. Symbols, mark-making and geometric forms distinguish his abstractions, produced in acrylic paints, charcoal, conte crayon, cloth and paper collage on paper, canvas and board. Alvarez, who lives in Sacramento, has shown his work publicly throughout California since the early 1970s. His works are in the collections of the Mexican Fine Arts Center in Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, University of Texas/Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art and Crocker Museum (Sacramento, Ca.). He is represented by Julie Baker Fine Art in Grass Valley, Ca.
Richard Feaster is a Nashville, Tenn. artist who has exhibited widely in Tennessee, and in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. He works on paper and on canvas in oils, acrylics, graphite and ink, blurring the barriers between painting and drawing by applying drawing’s spontaneity and action regardless of the media he is using. He sometimes applies metallic paints, which he feels suggest ``mirroring, doubling, invisibility and glamour.’’ The reflectivity of metallics alters perceptions of the works depending on the environment in which they are viewed. Feaster earned a master’s degree in fine art from Tulane University and studied at the well-known Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.
``Rick O’Shea’’ is the alter ego of a Santa Fe area artist who usually works in another medium and style. For the past 15 years, O’Shea has worked in relative isolation in a treatment center. Previously he had a career in international relations. His abstractions on paper incorporate multilayered painting (up to 40 layers per work), drawing and mark-making, using acrylics, charcoal, gouache and oil pastels. O’Shea has been influenced by the works of Mark Tobey and R. Mutt. He is a native of Newark, N.J. O’Shea’s most recent exhibition, ``Philology of the Vernacular,’’ was at the Daisy Meadows Residential Rehabilitation Home in Turning Leaf, Me.