Fresh Paint

Highlights from Up-and-Coming Artists and Brand New Works Available in Studios and Galleries Around the Country

Colorado painter is building steam with his textured landscapes

In the early fall of 2021, Native American Art magazine hosted a silent auction in Santa Fe, New Mexico. One of the works in the sale was by painter Nathanael A. Volckening. Not only the did the work sell (with proceeds going to charity), but the landscape painter was suddenly on everyone’s radar. Known for his soft color palette and textured painting technique, Volckening is an artist worth keeping your eyes on. He’s represented by Parsons Gallery of the West in Taos, New Mexico. See more at www.parsonsart.com.

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Sorrel Sky presents new workby Roberto Ugalde

Exquisite color, beautiful texture and entrancing scenery are some of the qualities of paintings by Roberto Ugalde, who shows his work at Sorrel Sky Gallery. The artist, who was born in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, uses a Jackson Pollock-like method to create his paintings. Like Pollock, Ugalde throws and drips his paint and then moves it around with a palette knife. Where Pollock would aim for abstract expressionism, Ugalde aims for realism within nature. “Every time I look around me,” he says, “I see this beautiful world full of colors and forms and my first impulse is to transform my vision and emotions in a way that connects and reconnects people to nature.” See more of his work at www.sorrelsky.com.

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New Beth Ray landscapes available at K. Newby Gallery

Inspired by the desert Southwest, Beth Ray’s newest work speaks to her ability to capture light and form within the Arizona, Colorado and Utah landscapes where she paints. The plein air and impressionist painter shows her work at K. Newby Gallery & Sculpture Garden in Tubac, Arizona. See more of her work at www.newbygallery.com.

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Zhaoming Wu shows new Southwest work at SageCreek Gallery

Chinese painter Zhaoming Wu is thrilling collectors with his unique perspective of the American Southwest, including new paintings of the Pueblo People and their lands. Wu, who grew up in Guangzhou City, China, experienced the Chinese Cultural Revolution, during which Western ideas and imagery were forbidden. Today, his work is nothing but the West as he turns his attention to the people, light and settings of the Southwest. See more of his work at www.sagecreekgallery.com. —