Article submitted by City of Sedona AZ
Sedona AZ (March 20, 2016) – The city of Sedona is pleased to announce an opportunity to meet with three local artists whose inspiring work is currently being displayed at the Sedona City Hall. The evening event will take place Wednesday, March 30, 2016, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Mary Dove has been a Sedona resident for over fourteen years. She holds both a Bachelor and Master of Art Education degree from Texas Tech University. Her background includes commercial art, technical illustration and teaching art in the high school classroom with the majority of her paintings photography based, beginning in a viewfinder to determine the subject’s composition for a potential painting.
Dove compares her art to music and explains, “The reference photo is the musical score. I am the lyricist giving the score its voice, emotion, energy, spirit, life and story.” Her paintings range from landscapes and architecture to big game animals, pet portraits and still life, responses to experiences or particular locations that allow the subject matter to emotionally find her as the seed for a painting.
Ellen Perantoni celebrated the pristine aspect of nature for many years, and enlarged on her formal art training with the independent study of landscape painting traditions dating back to the 1800s. She began painting landscapes in the Hudson Valley of New York state, inspired by the regal panoramas of masters Albert Bierstadt and Frederick Church. Perantoni began studying oil painting with modern master Hong-Nian Zhang at the Woodstock School of Art and studied Hudson River School paintings and landscapes before relocating to Sedona. Her work has been acquired by Whistler House Museum of Art, former New York State Governor George Pataki, a descendant of Hudson River School master Frederick Church, and other major collections. She is now under the spell of Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Perantoni paints both with loving attention to detail and depth imparted by unique glazing techniques which she developed. She began painting sunsets and night skies in the Hudson Valley and continues these dramatic treatments of the southwest in her Sedona work.
Margaret Anderson’s exhibit “Abstractions” are brightly colored, abstract, contemporary wall hangings created by using acrylic paint on cloth, collage and hand stitching. Anderson’s approach is one of intuitive spontaneity and meticulous craftsmanship. Abstract colors and shapes inspired by a lifelong love of nature form her work. Anderson’s nationally recognized award winning work is included in private collections throughout the United States and has been widely exhibited and included in such prestigious juried shows as Quilt Visions in Oceanside, California, and Quilt National ’07, Athens, Ohio, where she received the Jurors Choice award. Other awards include the Whistler Award at Art Quilts at the Whistler, Lowell, Massachusetts, and the Jurors Choice award at Quilts=Art=Quilts at the Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York, and Best of Show for Fiber at It’s Elemental ’14 at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona. Anderson currently has work touring across the United States with Quilt National ’15.
Sedona City Hall is located at 102 Roadrunner Drive, west Sedona, Arizona. Mary Dove’s paintings are on display in the Council Chambers, Ellen Perantoni’s oil paintings can be viewed in the Vultee Conference Room. Margaret Anderson’s fabric work is being exhibited in the Community Development Building Schnebly Conference Room. For more information, please contact Nancy Lattanzi, Arts and Culture Coordinator, at 928-203-5078 or email NLattanzi@SedonaAZ.gov.
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