On the First Friday of each month, the West + Main Homes team loves supporting local art by inviting creators to showcase their works in our popular storefront galleries.
This month, we hope you’ll join us for a little walk down memory lane each week, as we reminisce about all of the fun Artwalk events that we have hosted in our RiNo and Louisville offices.
We invite you to visit the online galleries and social accounts of these wonderful, creative + talented folks…and we will look forward to reuniting with you when this crisis has passed and our galleries are able to re-open.
Stacy Robinson
Stacy Robinson's acute sense of whimsy, joy and playfulness helped her to develop her unique style. Along with life's many joys, there have been many sorrows and Ms. Robinson has always dealt with all the facets of life through her expression of art. She has enjoyed many mediums and has moved back and forth between painting, sculpture/mixed media and jewelry making. She has fallen back in love with painting and is known for painting women, nature inspired themes and angels. Stacy is a native of Oklahoma and studied interior design at the Art Institute of Atlanta. She enjoyed a successful career as a decorative painter for interiors in Georgia, Texas and Colorado with children's murals being her favorite work. Her studio is nestled in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, located in Roxborough Park. Her heart is deeply connected within her small community and if she's lucky, you can find her happily pursuing the art of creativity.
Visit Stacy’s website.
Jane Buchanan
My name is Jane Buchanan. I was born and raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. I received my first camera when I was 13 and have been fascinated by photography ever since.
I bought my first DSLR last year and have taken a photography course and have been trying to perfect my photography skills since then. I prefer to take landscape and nature shots.
I look forward to any comments that will help me to perfect my skills.
Virginia T. Coleman
My artwork is an amalgamation of my multi faceted background. I adumbrate drawings like an architect, dapple color with a painter’s eye, capture compositions with the photographer’s quick lens, and weld forms together with a sculptor’s touch.
Metal has become the main tool to expressing my visual vocabulary. Metal is very seductive for a multitude of reasons. Its pure structural strength, its fragility to bend, its ability to capture time in its inherent chemistry, its reflective nature and its ease of joining via the lucid quality of a weld. I also use welding as a means of drawing lines upon metal.
The works follow three main trajectories. The first is an examination of nature of the built environment, the second is an expression of the ephemeral moments of life and the third is the continual study of the human figure.
When I speak of the built environment I focus on the physical world around us; the way that architectural lines delineates how we flow through space and time. The powerful presence, both clearly and latently, that structures have on our sense of being.
My work is also a vehicle for looking deeper into the human condition. The challenge is how to express emotions and concepts when they are not physical forms. To take the non-tangible and turn it into something that exists visually in an abstracted fashion.
The figure is my platform for looking deeper into forms, lines, and the slight nuances of color that create the wonderment of the figure.
My most recent endeavors has been starting my own company that focus on custom metal work. I find success in using my background in architectural design, my years of experience in metal fabrication combined with my fine arts training to create unique custom functional metal pieces.
Visit Virginia’s Facebook.
Cesar Arrendondo
My work revolves around the relationships between identities, geography, and the possession of land. How the space we occupy in our youth shapes our identity and how the acquisition and loss of land affects us. I created this body of work as a way of coping and working through the current political climate regarding immigrants and the other. To deal with the idea of being seen as an invader on land that they are indigenous too. I want the viewer to question the everyday actions that make up our lives and consider how they affect the lives and identities of those around us. How the simple action of getting a cup of coffee can have dramatic consequences to a neighborhood and its occupants. My style comes from and is informed by graffiti and its many contradictions. The way it can bring either prosperity or destruction, be seen as beauty or decay. The ebb and flow of creating the mark and its eventual cover up.
Visit Cesar’s website.
Rocky Tornabene
I am a 3rd generation native of New Orleans.Having joined the Navy at the age of 17, I have visited over 20 countries. With an honorable discharge, I knew I wanted to have a career where I could travel.I found that in the music industry.I spent more than half of my life as a Sound Engineer, touring the world with headlining acts such as Dr. John (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame), The Neville Brothers and Little Feat to name only a few.With the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and no work in New Orleans, I was offered work in Colorado. Here, I found my second home. I fell in love with the mountains and a girl. I married that girl - Salina and I continue to live in Colorado.I found my artistic talent later in life, so after some serious soul searching, I retired from the road to focus on my art. My commitment to New Orleans music, food and culture is a part of my inspiration and shows in my work.Some of my work can be seen atLa Jardin Art Gallery (612 Royal Street)located in the heart of the historic French Quarter.I attribute my success in the art world to my daughter, Elizabeth Tornabene, who first worked with this medium and taught me everything I know.I am available for commissions and like to think of my art as affordable to the masses and willing to work with almost any budget.
Visit Rocky's website.
Keep exploring local galleries! First Friday Virtual Artwalk Part 1, First Friday Virtual Artwalk Part 2
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