Alonso Rey Sanchez

alonso rey- sanchez

The painter, Alonso Rey, (April 29, 1967 – January 30, 2017), was born in Lima, Peru. His father was a doctor and his mother was an artist. He grew up watching his mother paint, and from an early age he identified with the vocation.

Alonso studies at the Joe de Leon School of Graphic Design, but after two years he realized that painting was his passion. He entered the Escuela Nacional Superior Autonoma de Bellas Artes de Peru, Peru’s century old School of Fine Arts.

There, he learned the use of color and received the academic preparation to continue his journey of painting. “I am not fearful of expressing myself through my work. With each painting, I convince myself more that I was born to be an artist.”Alonso’s energetic and detailed brushwork and unabashed love of color is both painterly and expressionistic.

The artist offers us his emotions derived from his experiences in various periods of his life. His work is decidedly expressionistic in both his style and theme which makes his paintings interesting and announces the emergence of Alonso Rey as an artist to keep our eyes upon.
(bio composed by José Pivín)

Upon his passing, several of his works were acquired by Austin’s own Mexic-arte Museum.

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Emigrando
39½“ x 39½“

“Obelisco”
4-paneled mural at
Pedernales & E. 7th St, Austin, TX

Nancy Fly

Nancy fly

Nancy Fly is a South Texas oil painter, fiddler, accordion player and dog owner. She spent much of her working life in the music business in Austin, Texas, but now resides in Harlingen, Texas where she works in her studio and pursues her art career. Her work is in private collections across the region and the U.S., and she exhibits both locally and across the state. Her volunteer work with humanitarian organizations in the Rio Grande Valley is an important part of her involvement with her community.

Her painting is inspired by her deep roots in the expanses of the Texas landscape, having grown up on a ranch outside of San Antonio, then moving to Corpus Christi in her teens. Her love for the outdoors, and painting outdoors, shape her creative energies. She considers herself a contemporary impressionist and an evolving abstract painter, as she’s recently been exploring abstraction as a way to convey difficult emotions not easily expressed in words.

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Shopping in San Miguel
24″x18″

Cracks in the Foundation
14″x11″

Boyd Scheer

Boyd scheer

As a boy, Scheer fell in love with Vincent van Gogh and knew he wanted to be a painter. He trained for 13 years in his youth by Wassily Sommer, Russian-born modernist landscape and portrait artist who moved to Anchorage, Alaska, becoming a US citizen. His style was impressionistic, but changed with the times towards a more sparing abstract. Sommer was, in turned, trained by Oskar Kokoshka, known for his intense expressionism.

As a young man, Scheer studied the works of George Gurdjieff, and his understudy, J. G. Bennett, in search of a higher state of consciousness. This thread led inexorably to Beshara and the Gift of Compassion held forth in the works of Ibn Arabi and the “Brides of Absoluteness.”

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“Her Hair (spun with galaxies)”
60″x60″

“Easter 2019”
16″x20″

Ryan Runcie

Ryan runcie

Being born to Jamaican parents in small-town Texas, Runcie is studio artist, muralist and painting instructor local in Austin, Texas. He feels “fortunate to have the confusing experience of growing up as a biracial, first-generation American man…I was able to, in my youthful ignorance, test and blur lines that I didn’t know existed.” His art is a tenuous and experimental engagement in blurring these lines on a public scale; allowing the loose expression of color to side step the mind’s need to categorize and understand in accordance with race, ethnicity, and stereotypes.

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Jasmine’s Purpose

Mural inside Victory Grill, Austin, TX

Veronica Castillo

Veronica Castillo is a ceramic artist who crafts exquisitely detailed, brightly colored folk art objects using centuries-old methods and symbols. She is a member of the honored Castillo Orta folk art family of Izucar de Matamoros in Puebla, Mexico, renowned for its tree of life candelabras.

Politically aware and active, she incorporates many current social issues into her tree of life sculptures. In 2013, she was awarded the prestigious NEA National Heritage Fellowship for her extraordinary work. Veronica Castillo has taught over 200 women of the Casita de Mujer Artes Cooperative in San Antonio, Texas, to shape clay by hand since 1994. – Crafts in America

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