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Henry Jackson Primal Field / Interval Opening Friday, May 15, 2026 Henry Jackson one of the most exciting artist working with creative oscillation between pure Abstract Expressionism and abstracted figuration, achieving a synergistic integration of the two genres. He masterfully navigates the threshold between ancestral form and contemporary environment. Rooted in the oral traditions of Hawaiian and New Guinean folklore, Jackson’s assertive new paintings occupy a space between presence and dissolution. Using masonry trowels and steel scrapers, he builds a thick stratigraphy of pigment, aggressively unearthing figures from the material as if they were artifacts of a shared cultural memory. Whether through spontaneous incidents of pigment in his oil-based monotypes or the dense, tectonic marks of his large-scale panels, Jackson celebrates a living bridge between the visceral reality of the present and the totemic presence of the past. #lewallengallerie #abstractart #santafe @henryjacksonpainter

Artist Spotlight: Connie Connally Connie Connally is an American painter recognized for the expressive, multi-layered brushwork she employs in her botanicals and scenes on water—vibrant, large-scale works that masterfully bridge the gap between representational landscape and powerful gestural abstraction. Drawing deep inspiration from the rugged coastlines and lush verdure of Southern California, Connally distills the essence of her observations into poetic colorscapes. Her work captures the vital interplay between memory and the sensory experience of nature. By merging her exterior observations with her interior emotional response, she creates imagery that feels both familiar and refreshingly transcendent. #ArtistSpotlight #ConnieConnally #lewallengalleries #AbstractLandscape #OilPainting #GesturalAbstraction #ColorscapeArt #FineArt @connieconnally Artwork: Connie Connally, Blue on Blue, 2014, Oil on canvas, 50 × 52 in Connie Connally, Floating Gardens - Frolic, 2015, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in. Connie Connally, Forever Autumn, 2014, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.

LewAllen Galleries' Summer 2026 season is here — eight shows across three galleries. 📍 Main — Henry Jackson: Primal Field / Interval May 15–June 20 🗓 Last Friday Artist Reception May 29 · 5–7 PM 📍 Pavilion — David Ligare: Distance May 29–June 27 🗓 Opening / Last Friday Reception May 29 · 5–7 PM 📍 Modernist — Woody Gwyn: A Celebration of Works May 29–Aug 1 🗓 Opening / Last Friday Reception May 29 · 5–7 PM 📍 Main — John Little June 26–July 25 🗓 Opens June 26 📍 Modernist — Nathan Oliveira July 3–Aug 1 🗓 Last Friday Reception July 31 · 5–7 PM 📍 Main — Jivan Lee July 31–Sept 12 🗓 Opening / Last Friday Reception July 31 · 5–7 PM 📍 Pavilion — Sharon Booma July 31–Sept 12 🗓 Last Friday Reception Aug 28 · 5–7 PM 📍 Modernist — Jaune Quick-to-See Smith & Fritz Scholder Aug 7–Sept 5 🗓 Last Friday Reception Aug 28 · 5–7 PM 1613 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe · Free & open to the public #LewAllenGalleries #SummerExhibition2026 #SantaFeArt #FineArt #NewMexicoArt #ContemporaryArt #SantaFeGallery @henryjacksonpainter @davidligare @jivanlee_art @sharonbooma Artwork shown: Henry Jackson, Untitled #32 (Interval Series) (detail), 2026, Oil based ink on Fabriano paper, 11.75 × 11.75 in David Ligare, Allegorical Landscape (Philosopher Lecturing on Social Responsibility) (detail), 1986, Oil on canvas, 78.25 × 110.25 in Woody Gwyn, Condor Pass (detail), 2022-25, Egg tempera on panel, 48 × 84 in John Little, Barcelona (detail), 1973, Oil on canvas, 38 × 52.5 in Nathan Oliveira, Charcoal Head 14 (detail), 1979, Watercolor on paper, 24 × 19 in ivan Lee, Rift Valley - Three Posts (detail), 2025, Oil on panel, 60 × 48 in Sharon Booma, Sometimes Contentment is a Matter of Will (detail), 2021, Oil & mixed media on panel, 48 × 48 in Fritz Scholder, Lilith in Purple Field (detail), c. 1992, Oil & acrylic on canvas, 89 × 63.25 in

LewAllen Galleries is delighted to announce the opening of the major solo exhibition entitled Woody Gwyn. Skylight On Water, Trees, Rock and Road, on view at the Art Museum of South Texas beginning May 14, 2026 and continuing through August 23, 2026. Woody Gwyn’s major exhibition is a study of the landscape of the Southwest United States, where he renders every surface, sunlit stone, and shifting bodies of water with profound reverence and keen precision. Gwyn excels at capturing the majestic grandeur of the environment alongside its intimate, quiet moments, expertly balancing expansive horizons with the tactile beauty of the everyday terrain. Concurrently, and in honor of this milestone museum exhibition, LewAllen Galleries will present “A Celebration of Works by Woody Gwyn”, opening May 29, 2026 and remaining on view in its Santa Fe Railyard Gallery through August 1, 2026. An on-line catalog will accompany that exhibition. #WoodyGwyn #LewAllenGalleries #ArtMuseumOfSouthTexas #LandscapePainting Woody Gwyn, Last Fall (detail), 2025-2026, egg tempera on board, 10.5 x 15 in Woody Gwyn, Tree/Pond (detail), 2025-2026, egg tempera on panel, 30 x 20 in Woody Gwyn, South Coast (detail), 2025-2026, egg tempera on board, 4.75 x 19.75 in

Opening tonight ✦ Two new exhibitions at LewAllen Galleries THE NEW WEST | Artist Reception with GL Richardson + Morgan Irons The evolving archive of American Western visual art as seen through a new generation of artists—Morgan Irons captures the psychological weight of agrarian life and female stewardship of the land in Montana using luminous, traditional oil techniques, and GL Richardson translates contemporary New Mexican ranching traditions and the archetype of the cowboy into Western Modernist vignettes, blending minimalism with a lively color palette. WESTERN RELIQUARIES | William Shepherd (In Memoriam) A memorial exhibition celebrating the life and work of master American Realist William Shepherd (1943–2024), who recontextualized still life painting through a rigorous technical study of perception and light. Using an expert, Dutch-inspired technique, Shepherd conferred reverence upon subjects like Navajo textiles and Pueblo pottery, creating visual reliquaries. Join us for the Last Friday Railyard Art Walk 🗓 Friday, April 24 · 5–7 PM 📍 1613 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe #LewAllenGalleries #SantaFeArt #RailyardArtWalk #TheNewWest #WesternReliquaries #WilliamShepherd #GLRichardson #MorganIrons #WesternArt #ContemporaryRealism @gl.richardson @morganirons Images: GL Richardson, Heads Up, 2026, oil on panel, 48 x 36 in Morgan Irons, Potato Harvester at Dusk, 2026, oil on canvas, 48x 36 in William Shepherd, Two Snakes Over Santo Nino, n.d., oil on panel, 24 x 24 in

Artist Spotlight: Sharon Booma American | b. 1950 The surfaces of Booma's paintings are the result of a careful process that laces together intertwining webs of harmony and tension through washes of veiled color and broad fields of visual texture. Further activating her imagery is her intrepid use of mark-making, which includes rhythmic arrangements of geometric shapes, looping fields of sgraffito, and languageless writing. Booma's latest paintings will be the subject of a solo exhibition opening at LewAllen Galleries on Friday, August 7, 2026. We hope to see you there! #ArtistSpotlight #SharonBooma #LewAllenGalleries #ContemporaryArt #SantaFe #Painting #Sgraffito @sharonbooma

Feature of the Week Jason Kowalski Dream Weaver, 2025, oil & mixed media on panel, 36 x 54 in Dream Weaver, demonstrates Kowalski's facility for detail, rendering the textures of eroded signage and oxidized metal with an uncanny vibrancy. By balancing rigorous realism with painterly sensitivity, Kowalski captures the solitude and stark splendor of rural scenery as they exist today—survivors of a bygone era. This sensibility is particularly evident in the work’s adjacency to the quiet Colorado landscape. Showcasing his masterful control of color to amplify the passing of time. The interplay between the structured geometry of the built environment and the ranging qualities of the mountain background creates an atmosphere of contrast that feels both immediate and timeless. #featureoftheweek #lewallengalleries #JasonKowalski #americanlandscape #americana #contemporaryart @jasonekowalski #oilpaintings

The New West: GL Richardson & Morgan Irons 📅Coming Soon, April 24th, 2026, 5 to 7pm 📍 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe LewAllen Galleries presents the inaugural exhibition of its series, The New West, advancing its tradition of presenting alternative visual interpretations of the Modern American West. The New West: GL Richardson + Morgan Irons features visual expressions from two young contemporary artists exploring their lived experiences in today’s American Frontier. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 24th and remains on view through May 23, 2026, with an Opening Reception with both artists from 5 to 7 pm on April 24. GL RICHARDSON GL Richardson’s process began with a career shift from a successful career in art direction at a leading advertising agency to work on a New Mexican cattle ranch. This immersion provided direct experience with the lived truths of a modern-day cowboy: anonymity, self-reliance, intensive labor, and interpersonal ties. Richardson’s approach is described as "contemporary Western American Modernism" that combines traditional iconography—landscapes, cowboys, ranch animals, and wildlife—with contemporary sensibilities such as vibrant color palettes and abstracted forms. By stripping away the pop-culture chaff of the cowboy, he elevates his subjects to universal archetypes that feel familiar, trusted, and real in the New West. MORGAN IRONS Morgan Irons depicts experience and figures from her agrarian life using naturalistic realism. Working from a remote mountaintop cabin in Montana, the artistic practice of Irons connects deeply with the land. She utilizes traditional indirect oil techniques, a process of building transparent layers to achieve luminosity grounded in settings that invoke art historical references. Her art portrays women engaged in acts of resilience against the powerful forces of nature and the rigorous demands of living on the land. Irons focuses on stories within her rural Montana community, elevating the essential work of her figures—farmers, mothers, and stewards—as highly detailed portrayals of life co-existing with the Earth, the giver of life sustenance. #TheNewWest #GLRichardson #MorganIrons

Feature of the Week Sammy Peters, Astonishing: universal; autonomy, 2024, oil & mixed media on canvas, 72 x 60 This week’s Feature of the Week is an especially pensive work with deep colors, sinuous lines, and geometric forms defined by patterns and striped bands. The painting Astonishing: universal; autonomy features sensuous surfaces—a meticulous interplay of brushwork, drips, marks from oil sticks and pencil, layered with cold wax and resin—navigating the tension between opacity and translucence, in an intricate, intelligent game of mysterious activity. This is truly a classic Peters masterwork. #featureoftheweek #lewallengalleries #SammyPeters #abstractart #geometricforms #mixedmediaart #oilpainting #multilayered #santafe

Joseph DiGiorgio: New American Lyrical Landscapes 📅Opens Today, March 27th , 2026 📍 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe In an era of instant digital reproduction—where images are generated without effort and consumed without pause—the power of these canvases lies in their sheer weight of time. They function as defiant artifacts of human endurance because they cannot be skimmed or summarized; they are the physical record of thousands of hours of manual labor. Every dot represents a deliberate, human choice, making the painting a testament to the artist's lived presence rather than a mere mechanical reproduction of a view. Central to DiGiorgio’s work is a masterful manipulation of perspective. He frequently places the viewer in what is described by Thompson as an “indeterminate zone”, a vantage point that is neither on the ground nor in the sky. This floating vantage point offers a conservationist approach to nature, a technique of protection: by removing the viewer off the ground plane, the spectator hovers, a witness to nature who has no physical effect on it. This intentional act ensures the landscape remains closed to all forms of visitation except that of visual contemplation. The viewer is allowed to inhabit the space through the gaze alone, creating a psychological distance—a purely visual invitation to transcend mere observation and become visual meditation. One sees the world as it exists in the sanctuary of the mind—composed, ordered, pulsating, and perfectly preserved. #josephdigiorgio #LewAllenGalleries #landscapepainting #artexhibition #abstractlandscape #abstractpainting #neopointillism #santafe

Joseph DiGiorgio: New American Lyrical Landscapes 📅Opens Friday, March 27th , 2026 📍 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe By merging the push-pull dynamics of the New York School with a signature meticulous, atomized technique, DiGiorgio asserted that the American wilderness could still be a site of profound psychological and spiritual inquiry. For today’s contemporary viewer, DiGiorgio's original declaration still resonates with a renewed urgency. His work is more than a painting; it is a profound, hand-built visual and intellectual sanctuary—a tangible claim on enduring beauty and focused concentration. To the casual observer, DiGiorgio is often categorized as a Neo-Pointillist—a label that is convenient, but ultimately imprecise. While his canvases are composed of countless rhythmic dots, a technique that inevitably recalls the scientific rigor of the 19th century French post-impressionist Georges Seurat, the comparison is only superficial. Seurat’s Pointillism was an exercise in optical physics—a laboratory attempt to reduce the behavior of light to a repeatable formula. DiGiorgio, conversely, practiced what Walter Thompson, the art historian and critic who authored the artist’s definitive 1988 retrospective catalog, identified as a 'process-oriented, labor-intensive' method of achieving 'complex and subtle coloration.' #JosephDiGiorgio #LewAllenGalleries #artexhibition #abstractlandscape #abstractpainting #NeoPointillist #santafe #newmexico

Dorothy Browdy Kushner: A Force of Nature 📅Opens Today, March 13th , 2026 📍 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe Dorothy Browdy Kushner’s (1909-2000) career spanned five decades across California and New York, characterized by a continuous exploration and integration of color, light, and structural abstraction. Studying with Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in New York, she developed a distinct visual language that evolved from Cubist-inspired geometries into bolder, more assertive expressionism. Drawing influence from masters such as German-American Color Expressionist Lyonel Feininger, second-generation American Abstract painter Richards Ruben, and the structural landscape abstractions of Nicolas de Staël, she applied this synthesis to gestural landscapes and abstracted floral subjects with vigorous brushwork. Identifying as a colorist, her work focused on a nuanced sense of chromatic exploration. Described as a “force of nature”, Kushner said of her own practice “I am always concerned with relationships of color, form, and space. I prefer the unpremeditated directness of the medium. This approach often results in paintings of more emotional quality than that which is achieved through the usual controlled subjective use of the medium.” An active force in progressive artistic communities, Kushner co-founded “The Group” in the San Gabriel Valley to foster critical discourse and support among female Modernists. These women met monthly for rigorous critiques focusing on the dynamism of form. Kushner’s oeuvre remains a testament to her profound conviction in the power of abstraction. Kushner's paintings are held in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as the Tate Modern in London, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among numerous others. #dorothybrowdykushner #LewAllenGalleries #modernist #artexhibition #abstractlandscape #abstractpainting #robertkushner #santafe