Joanne Brandt Art Space: Divine Managerie Exhibition - Reception on Friday, December 11, 2015

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Divine Managerie Exhibition - Reception on Friday, December 11, 2015

I thought I would post a few photos from the opening reception for my first solo exhibition: Divine Managerie. The reception was held during the December LoDa ArtWalk. There were lots of Christmas Elves wandering through, as well as many of my dear friends and art lovers from the Mobile community.

Me with some of my Bovines and a couple of Equines.

My friend Kathy with her grand-daughter, Lizzie - a young art appreciator.

Me with my friend, Suzie Rouillier. This portrait of the Baldwin County
Brahmans is based on a beautiful photograph Suzie shared with me.

My artist friends Conroy and Kathy.

Me and my friend Connie.

Gail and me.

Satomi was so sweet to come see the show and brought me a rose!

Jeff contemplating the Brahmans.

I enjoyed discussing my art with these enthusiastic art students f rom the
University of South Alabama. Future artists to look out for!

Roxann, Gail and Bill, and me.

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Nova Scotia Cow No. 2 - " Anabel"

This is the last cow portrait I completed for the Divine Bovines show. It is also a large painting (36 in. x 48 in.). Actually this canvas was originally purchased for the Sweet Home Farm Bull, but I found that it was not long enough for the bull - therefore, I had to do another cow portrait in order for this canvas not to go to waste! Actually, this is one of my favorites. I was able to complete Anabel pretty quickly for me (3 to 4 weeks). This acrylic painting was finished in February 2009 for the Divine Bovines show. I really love the goldenrod background (Yellow oxide, which was a new pigment for me) against the black and white cow. Again, very little true white and no black on this cow. My favorite parts are the udder and the swollen veins, since she looks like she really needs to be milked. I also had fun with the grass.

Sweet Home Cheese Farm Bull

This is the first large cow portrait (36 in x 60 in., acrylic on canvas) I have attempted. I took a photo of this bull when my family went to visit the Sweet Home Cheese Farm near Elberta in south Baldwin County, AL, This place makes wonderful boutique cheese. My concept was to paint a white cow with back-lighting, so there would be no white paint on this cow. Because it is a bull, I thought the red background would be an effective statement. Although this is a "realistic" portrait, I really love the abstract quality of the colors and shadows on the body of the bull. I finished this painting in early February 2009, just in time for the Divine Bovines: The Cow as Art exhibition.

Cows at the Graham Ranchette (1996)

This is my second painting of cows in watercolor. I entered this in one of the Mobile Art Association shows which hung at Mobile Museum of Art, and the judge liked the movement captured in this painting. Note that the next cow painting I attempted was in 2006 (10 years later). I was working fulltime and was not a very productive painter. My first painting of cows was also a watercolor, which was exhibited in a Bel Air Mall shop window (MAA Exhibition). It sold, so I no longer have a copy to display (but was able to scan in a photo for documentation purposes, as shown in the photo below).

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Divine Managerie Exhibition - Reception on Friday, December 11, 2015

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Nova Scotia Cow No. 2 - " Anabel"

Sweet Home Cheese Farm Bull

Nova Scotia Cow No. 1 - "Maggie" (2008)

PEI Cow No. 2 - "Blossom" (2007)

PEI Cow No. 1 - "Sweet Pea" (2006)

Cow Threesome

Cows at the Graham Ranchette (1996)

Cows on the Beach (1990-ish)