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FEATURED ARTISTS:  Saturday - Sunday | November 24th and 25th, 2007 | Presentations are both days, beginning promptly at 1:30 pm | Free of charge

 

Featured Speakers and Artists, May 31, June 1st:

SCOTT SUSTEK | Wall, Texas | Sculptor | Moon Gate, Mars Gate and Diana recently installed on The Benini Sculpture Ranch
 
                      
  

Scott Sustek is a sculptor who works out of his barn studio in Wall, Texas. He received his B.A. in Biology from Rice, followed by a Masters degree. His love of biology combined with astrophysics  find their way into influences in his current sculptures.  After teaching science and math for nine years, he learned to sculpt at the Elisabet Ney Conservatory in Austin, and has also studied under Eugene Daub, Lincoln Fox, and Walt Horton.  Scott is the former Director of the Austin Sculpture Center, and also taught sculpting at the Austin Museum of Art--Laguna Gloria.

 A move to West Texas sparked my creative transition from classical/realistic work  to modern/abstract sculptures.  During ARTS Encounters, I will contrast the processes of building ”Diana" with that of fabricating "Moon Gate" and "Mars Gate."
www.scottsustek.com


RUSTY YATES |Johnson City | Photography

 

                                    

 

After an education in Economics and Finance I entered the business world. My business background has been in ranching, banking and natural gas exploration and production. 
 

 I started making photographs while living and working on a ranch shooting herd pictures for informational and promotional purposes. Completely self taught,  I have had no formal training in photography or art. My work has appeared in numerous magazines, livestock publications and advertisements. I have been a featured photographer in both Texas Highways Magazine and Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine and have received a Gold Award from the International Regional Magazine Association and a National ADDY award.  My photographs are in private collections throughout the southwest and currently my work is shown at The Kirchman Gallery in Johnson City. In addition to photography,  I have a keen interest in conservation and land stewardship and currently am on the board of the Bamberger Ranch Preserve and the Preserve at Walnut Springs.

 

The reason I make photographs is -  for as long as I can remember -  I have been enamored by the natural world and the beauty within it. The play of light on the land has transfixed me since I was a child. I am attempting not only to capture this beauty;  but also,  to invoke an emotional response from the viewer. In addition to fulfilling a  personal need to artistically express myself, my purpose, for making photographs is  heightening awareness. Making photographs intensifies my experience of the world around me. If even only in a small way, my work brings awareness of the incredible beauty of our world and the need to be wise stewards of our natural resources -  then I have been successful.

 

I enjoy photographing a variety of subjects. My approach to shooting landscapes, still life or nudes is basically the same. I’m seeking the beauty within it all and trying to interpret it in a personal way.
 

 I use both film and digital capture and prefer shooting with available natural light. Post capture,  I enhance the images using Adobe Photoshop CS2 and print on a variety of papers with an Epson Stylus Pro 3800 printer.

 

 In Honor of Oglesby, Chambers and the focus on Texas music, sculptor LaPaso will display several of his musical instrument sculptures.

 CHRIS OGLESBY | Austin, Texas|
Author, "Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music."

                
Chris Oglesby (right) with Colin Gilmore & Joe Ely, TexasBook Festival 2006; Photo credit - David Munoz

Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series)Christopher Oglesby received the Association for Recorded Sound Collections 2007 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for his non-fiction book: "Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music,'" which is Oglesby's first publication.

 Oglesby is the editor of www.virtualubbock.com, a website which celebrates West Texas music, literature, art, and culture. Reared and educated in Lubbock Texas, Oglesby earned his Bachelor of Arts summa sum laude and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Texas Tech University. He now lives in Austin, where he currently is working on a novel titled "Religion and Politics," about a family living in Lubbock.  
Author Christopher Oglesby explains the legendary Lubbock music scene.  Despite being known as a conservative agricultural community, Lubbock Texas has produced an uncanny number of influential and unconventional popular musicians including: Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Joe Ely, Jimmie Gilmore, Angela Strehli, the Lost Gonzo Band, and contemporary rebel Natalie Maines. Oglesby's award winning book "Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air" features 25 interviews with Lubbock musicians and artists, many well-known and some obscure, in an attempt to discover what it is about Lubbock that feeds their creative spirit in an otherwise inhospitable environment, addressing the question: "Why Lubbock?" 

 

 
       
      Doug Sweet|  Galveston Island, Texas | Doug Sweet, Painter

 

  

     

 

When I began to develop an interest in art my father would take me to the Denver Art Museum to view  traveling exhibits and the  permanent collection. I was attracted to the  16th and 17th century paintings which dealt with realistic subject matter. I found these particularly appealing because of the artist's ability to create narrative aspects using paint. They were able to tell a story without using words.

 It was not until I moved to Houston and saw a painting done by Jackson Pollock at the Houston Museum of Fine Art that I had any understanding of non-objective painting at all. The depth he achieved in that painting with drips and runs was incredible. It occurred to me that his work had things in common with realistic painters other than the way they applied paint to canvas and subject matter.  I am especially fascinated by the illusion that occurs when a piece is successful. It is like watching a separate form of reality evolve. An illusion of 3- dimensions on a 2-dimensional surface is of course not real at all, but created with paint or graphite on canvas or board. A representation of reality. This concept and the process of creating a finished painting or drawing is very abstract to me.

This presentation is in conjunction with the current Sweet exhibition at Kirchman Gallery in Johnson City.

 

 

JOHN CHAMBERS | Music!!



John will be performing songs from his new album that is being recorded in Lubbock, Texas.

John Chambers is a multi-talented writer who is currently working on a song writing project with producers Alan Crossland and Brian McRae at Route 1, Acuff Studios.  Drawing upon his twenty years of battering in Hollywood, the album will use all the lessons learned writing for television and film.  John swears that all the years of swings between extreme narcissism and self-loathing have been worth it -- though if watched closely, he has a slight tick when asked too many probing questions of his west coast experiences.
 
 

 

                                                            

     

Carlo Piermartire | Italy| Master Trombonist
 

 

Carlo Piermartire, who began playing the trombone at the age of 12, was born  in Fermo (AP), Italy, the 29th of January 1979. He graduated at the Conservatory of Music “G. B. Pergolesi” of Fermo in 1999.

 

Carlo took several perfection courses (MYTHOS of the Arturo Toscanini Foundation,The Teatro sperimentale of Spoleto, Estate frentana of Lanciano, etc.) and master classes with Charles G. Vernon (bass trombone Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Mark Lawrence (Principal trombone San Francisco Symphony Orchestra), Peter Sullivan (Principal trombone Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra), Andrea Conti (Principal trombone Santa Cecilia’s Academy Orchestra in Rome), Renzo Brocculi (ex Principal trombone Italian Radio and Television Orchestra), and Steven Mead (World famous Euphonium player).


To date, Piermartire has played with several Italian orchestras, including Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra, Giuseppe Verdi Symphonic Orchestra, San Remo Symphonic Orchestra, Guido Cantelli Symphonic Orchestra, Marche Symphony Orchestra, International Italian Orchestra.

 
 
          Following ARTS Encounters visit The Black Spur Emporium and Gallery, the Watson Photo Gallery and
        the Kirchman Gallery - all on Nugent Street in Johnson City, for their openings and featured artists.
 
For further information, visit www.Benini.com or call 830-868-5244.
The events are free of charge and open to all.

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