Flora Bowley

Flora Bowley: Inhale | Exhale
Comprised of work created entirely during her residency here, this show unveils a powerful and exciting new direction.

Flora Bowley (pronounced bowl-lee) is a celebrated artist, author of four books, community builder, and visionary creative guide.

Blending over thirty years of professional painting experience with her experience as a movement and breathwork facilitator, bodyworker, mindfulness practitioner, and lifelong seeker, Flora’s popular in-person retreats, online courses, and books have empowered a global network of brave painters while creating a holistic movement in the intuitive art world.

Flora believes creative expression (in all its many forms) is about moving life force energy as a way to stay clear, connected, and resilient in our ever-changing world.

Currently, Flora is co-creating and stewarding a 20-acre retreat center an hour outside of Portland, OR where you can find her singing to trees, making music playlists, and creating a glorious mess in her studio.

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Jen Tough Gallery a new gallery and art studio facility in the Lamy/Eldorado area of Santa Fe, NM, announces the solo exhibition of Oregon based artist Flora Bowley. This will be Bowley’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.

RECEPTION: Saturday, March 9, 4:00-6:00

EXHIBITION ON VIEW: March 2 - April 28, 2024

GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00-6:00 (closed Mon & Tues)


Laura Klopfenstein

The “American Dream” is a bizarre concept. Some are evolving and progressive, some are stuck in a dark past and celebrate ignorance. Yet we share custody of our physical, emotional and spiritual space, and have major problems to solve.
 
As we all know, mothers worry. I feel a maternal sense of protectiveness for the earth and people of all ages, all walks of life. I like to create imagery that is rooted in the natural world and summoned from my imagination. It is a celebration of beauty and a reminder of our responsibility as a species with the gift of forethought.
 
Works are informed by concepts of stewardship, activism, playfulness, and awe. Some art works are more personal and touch on the push-pull energy of social roles that are both depleting and inspiring: being a woman in the US and a mother. I like soft and hard, pretty and ugly, together. My artistic process is guided by layering, the physical qualities of textures, forms and colors, storytelling, and humor.   
 
I like to use symbols to explore ideas: human teeth, fingernails, fishing lures, cacti and oceanic organisms. For example, I include teeth because as humans, we all have teeth no matter what we look like and they are a shared connection. Other works also use fishing lures. I think they look like little people, ghosts when together, non-thinking masses with a permanent expression of confusion, apathy. And I combine them with flora and fauna – to share space with the fishing lure “people”, all linked together.

Other ongoing series explore labor roles, the beauty/fashion industry, climate change, environment, disposable culture and socioeconomic imbalance. 
 
In my practice, I use a variety of media on paper and canvas: acrylics, gouache, graphite, Austin tap water, magazines, encyclopedias, ink and secret tools.

SEE AVAILABLE WORK

Jen Tough Gallery a new gallery and art studio facility in the Lamy/Eldorado area of Santa Fe, NM, announces the solo exhibition of Austin, Texas based artist Laura Klopfenstein. This will be Klopfenstein’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.

RECEPTION: Saturday, February 10, 4:00-6:00

EXHIBITION ON VIEW: February 3 - 28, 2024

GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00-6:00 (closed Mon & Tues)


Super Fresh!

Work right off the studio wall… a juried group exhibition.

On view February 3 - 28, 2024 | Opening Reception: Saturday, February 10, 4:00-6:00

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Selected Artists Include

Robert Wilhelm, Roxanne Evans Stout, Elissa Nesheim. Marion Wesson, Lisa Levine

Kathryn Gastelum, Juliet L'Amour, Julie Carcione, Chloe McEldowney. Jill Stoll, Dana Kohlmann

Dobee Snowber, Maureen S Farrell, Ruthie K. Yamada, Charlotte Schmid-Maybach, Ellis Hepburn

Jess Merritt, Neil Enggist, Sandra Smith-Dugan, Dee Mostofi, Jessa Dupuis, Eric Wall

Maryann Steinert-Foley, Nastia Craig, Leticia Lac, Carlos Fentane, Jonas Thaler, Hilary Sheehan

Laurinda Stockwell, John Vitale, LWren Walraven, Emanuela I Harris SIntamarian, Alanna Peters


Gina Tuzzi: Wild Seed

OCTOBER 5 - NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Please contact the gallery for inquiries: Jen@JenTough.gallery

Sarah Boyts Yoder: Realm

SOLO EXHIBITION AUGUST, 2023

Please contact the gallery for inquiries: Jen@JenTough.gallery

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