RioBravoFineArt announces new artist exhibitions in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, for spring 2024.
RioBravoFineArt Spring 2024 Announcements
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
RioBravoFineArt is thrilled to unveil two major announcements for its Spring 2024 calendar! First, the gallery will be hosting a retrospective of work by New Mexico painter Dave Barnett. Barnett’s exhibition, The Quest, The Struggle, The Journey, will be on view May 11–July 21, 2024. Second, RioBravoFineArt is proud to announce that painter Dina D’Argo will join the gallery as one of its regular artists.
Dave Barnett: The Quest, The Struggle, The Journey
May 11–July 21, 2024
Dave Barnett obtained an MA in painting in the late 1960s at New Mexico Highlands University, where he was taught by the well-known artist Elmer Schooley. Ten years after graduating, Barnett gave up painting completely and began to focus on pottery instead. Clay was his medium for the subsequent sixteen years. In 1994, Schooley recommended that Barnett view a show of Impressionist paintings at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. He has painted ever since.
Barnett creates bold images of Southwestern U.S. flora and fauna, bosque and mountain landscapes, small-town street scenes, and geologic formations, both large and small. His images always give a fresh perspective and unique view of both the natural and man-made worlds. Although Barnett has his own recognizable style, he can make subtle reference to such diverse painters as Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper, and René Magritte. Barnett’s paintings are large scale, and all three of the lower-level gallery spaces in RioBravoFineArt will be dedicated to this show.
New Artist: Dina D’Argo
now on view
Dina D’Argo, who was raised in California and has lived in such diverse places as the Hawaiian rainforest, rural Tennessee, and a family home in Jamaica, now resides in southern New Mexico.
Her paintings have been featured in galleries, design showrooms, and private collections worldwide.
D’Argo creates sensitive, atmospheric images that hover somewhere between representational and abstract. Her quietly powerful, dreamlike images invite the mind to roam freely to places that feel familiar yet wild and mysterious, expansive yet deeply personal. Primarily self-taught, D’Argo works loosely and intuitively, building multiple layers of texture and translucent color to tell a complex story. She enjoys exploring color relationships and the balance between design elements and negative space.
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