Artists of the Month & New Artists

Artists of the Month: May 2022

Ray Baird

Ray, an oil painter, grew up in the Midwest and has a BFA in drawing and painting from the University of Kansas. He has lived in Las Cruces since the 1990s. His work, lightly described as Impressionistic Expressionism, uses translucent complimentary colors that represent his feelings, rather than a true representational image.

Kerry O'Neill

Kerry, a ceramicist, has had a passion for art since early childhood. She attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as a flute major and eventually earned a B.S. in Fashion/Costume Design from incarnate Word University in San Antonio, TX. She became a Home Education teacher and eventually switched to teaching elementary art in the public schools.

New Gallery Artist

Jean Wilkey

Jean’s art starts with color, with a momentary glance at something previously unseen, with a feeling. She paints worlds populated with plants, animals, people, and objects, that blur the line between indoor and outdoor, between still life and landscape. Her compositions incorporate personal symbolism that becomes a metaphor for our relationship to the animal kingdom, to nature and to our spiritual and physical selves. Wilkey’s art has appeared in Southwest Art and Exploring TOSCA magazines and is in private collections in the United States and abroad. She holds an MFA in painting and has taught at New Mexico State University, the University of El Paso, and Doña Ana Community College. She currently teaches painting in her Las Cruces studio.

In addition, the gallery artists offer art in many media, which include:
original paintings, photography, jewelry, ceramics, fabric collage,
stained glass and gourds, as well as affordable note cards and prints.
For further information please call 575-522-2933.