SANTA FE SIX CELEBRATED AT GILDEA Contemporary GALLERY

KEY WEST –New works by six award-winning artists spanning decades working in Santa Fe will be featured at Gildea Contemporary Gallery. Contemporary paintings by Javier Lopez Barbosa, Suzanne Betz, Mark White, Suzanne Donazetti, Mark Horst, and Nancy Ortenstone, will be celebrated at a public opening on Monday, March 18th from 6 to 8 p.m. with a show titled “SANTE FE SIX” and remain on view through April 1.

A self-taught artist, Barbosa’s process of abstraction stems from the connection between his emotions and the blank canvas, creating works to elicit joy and happiness. As an equestrian turned painter, Betz’s connection with horses is channeled into her luminous paintings. Donazetti communicates with color through the refractive lens of weaving and painting, representing sunlight and shadows on copper.

For Horst, painting is a way of breaking time’s grip and setting loose something wild and strong. First a clay artist, after earning his PHD in Theology from Yale University, Horst turned to painting as a practice, not unlike prayer, of paying attention to the world and its contours. Dreams and intuitive logic inform every area of Ortenstone’s fresh impressionistic canvases, and White’s ethereal landscapes engraved on aluminum, capture the intensity and rich palette of the Southwest.

“Each artist has been delicately selected to represent the best of the best of the leading painters working in Santa Fe today. We are excited to share their new works with the seasoned traveler and sophisticated collector of Key West,” states Paul Gildea, owner of the prestigious gallery, now in its fifth year in Old Town.

Gildea Contemporary Gallery specializes in abstract and contemporary art by over 30 artists. Visit our online store at artsy.net/gildea-gallery. Gildea Contemporary Gallery is located at 522 Southard Street in Old Town, Key West, 305-797-6485 and Is open daily in season.

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