Studio Gallery // The march show
The Paseo Arts and Creativity Center (PACC) presents two exhibits, on display March 5-27.
Gallery I • Studio Gallery OKC
Gallery II • The March Show
For information about purchasing or to schedule a private showing, please call 405-525-2688 or email theresa@thepaseo.org
STUDIO GALLERY OKC
The March show
IKE BENNETT
CHRISTY EVEREST
CURT GRUEL
BECKY HAUGEN
KATIE HENDERSON
SCOTT HENDERSON
DODGE HILL
PHEBE KALLSTROM
JOHN MOAD
JESSE ANN WALLENTINE
WHITNEY INGRAM WATKINS
JANE WHITE
For information about purchasing or to schedule a private showing, please call 405-525-2688 or email paige@thepaseo.org
BECKY HAUGEN
Becky was born and raised in Oklahoma City with a passion for art at an early age.
She enjoy painting subjects ranging from pet portraits to landscapes and everything inbetween!
CHRISTY EVEREST
I paint for the sheer joy of it. It simply makes me happy and it’s where my two passions, color and nature, can come together. Color lifts my spirits, calms my mind, energizes and inspires me. Nature does the same.
Water, skies, trees and flowers are frequent subjects of my acrylic and water color paintings. I enjoy using vibrant color to depict familiar scenes from favorite places; the shores of Lake Michigan, the beaches of Florida, the mountains of Colorado and my own backyard garden.
I learn so much and have so much fun being in Dennis Johnson’s class. With his guidance, I continue to experiment with different techniques and styles to develop and define my own unique style. I’m grateful to have had a lifelong appreciation of art and excited to create my own.
CURT GRUEL
Curt Gruel began painting in earnest after retiring from orthopedic surgery. He is largely self-taught, but has benefitted from studying under William C. Hook, Mark Daniel Nelson and Scott Conary. Gruel works in acrylic, oil and watercolor. His favorite subjects are landscapes of his native Oklahoma and neighboring New Mexico, but he also ventures into abstracts, still life, interiors and figures. In his work he tries to convey a sense of solitude, serenity, stillness, spaciousness, balance and harmony– those qualities of presence that make his heart sing.
DODGE HILL
Dodge Hill, M.D., has enjoyed a lifelong appreciation of art. He first drew cartoons for the Casady School newspaper while in high school. After his retirement as a practicing anesthesiologist for 30 years, he returned to painting. He engages in art classes weekly and is ever evolving his painting techniques. He is a member of The Studio Gallery located on Britton Road in the Village. His artwork is also found hanging in beautiful homes and businesses in Oklahoma City, Nichols Hills and Gaillardia.
IKE BENNETT
Ike Bennett is the retired executive and co-owner of Public Supply Company. Bennett started painting two years ago while recovering from knee replacement surgery. He studies under artist Dennis Johnson who has helped him with perception, design and other aspects of painting. Working from a converted study in his home, Bennett paints mostly with oil on canvas. His subjects range from buildings, barns and houses, to golf course scenes and anything else that interests him. Painting has enriched his retirement life, keeping him busy when he’s not playing golf. Bennett’s family has supported him tremendously, both with their critique and their encouragement.
JANE WHITE
Jane White is a lifelong resident of Oklahoma City, with brief stops along the way in Washington, D.C. and Austin, Texas. White received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism – Advertising from the University of Texas. She has worked for a major Oklahoma City department store in visual display, fashion and special events. She is now an artist at The Studio Gallery. Over the past 28 years, White has studied with Dennis Johnson and Linda Warren of Oklahoma City, Ann Templeton of Ruidoso, New Mexico, Ray Vinella and Kevin McPherson of Taos, New Mexico. Her unique style reflects their influences with vibrant colors serving as her trademark. Whether realistic or imaginative in theme, her paintings can be recognized by the joy in their colors as the representative samples to the right demonstrate.
JOHN MOAD
John Moad began studying art after retiring from the Oklahoma City Fire Department. Following past endeavors with pastel, encaustic and acrylic mediums, most of his paintings are now done in oil. John’s paintings are currently being displayed in establishments around the metro but mainly at Dentons frame shop in OKC, which John has owned since 1984.
KATIE HENDERSON
Katie is a self-taught contemporary artist in Oklahoma City, who has been well received by local art collectors and interior designers alike. Katie is known for her restless and expressive abstract paintings that employ the use of bold colors and gestural movements. Her large-scale works have been described as captivating, rich in dimension and design. Katie was an integral part of Oklahoma City’s important women’s art organization Fringe and was a featured artist in Oklahoma Contemporary’s signature annual ArtNow exhibition. In addition, she has been a featured artist in Science Museum Oklahoma’s SmART Space galleries and other group shows throughout the state. She loves being a mom, cooking, gardening, traveling everywhere and practicing yoga.
SCOTT HENDERSON
As the Director of the smART Space Galleries atScience Museum Oklahoma, Scott Henderson’s goal is to educate the community about the symbiotic relationship between the arts and sciences. His formal art training was acquired at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and at the University of Central Oklahoma. He has been shown in many group and solo exhibitions around Oklahoma City and abroad. His works are included in important private, public and corporate collections. He mainly works in collage and mixed media with a focus on fantastic themes in correlation with self-identity. Using a characteristic collage style with a painterly approach his art presents new ways of looking at the world in relation to the graphic realm we are invariably surrounded by.
My painting/collages show the dichotomy between the comfortable familiarities of our environment and the veiled nature of reality. In my artwork, I express the ideas of individuation and archetypes and how they influence the psyche and the Self through the use of symbols, diagrams, multi layers, and textural imagery.
PHEBE KALLSTROM
An Oklahoma City based artist, Kallstrom has been a lifelong student and teacher of art. Having studied and explored the wonders of graphite and pastels, she has been working with oil paints since 2006. Her paintings represent her attraction to color, reflections, humor and whimsical motifs. Extensive travel and a lifetime of experiences has provided much of her imagery.
JESSIE ANN WALLENTINE
Jessie Ann was born and raised in OKC. She always viewed herself as a choreographer. She loved creating and putting things together. She went to New York after college to choreograph Broadway plays before returning to OKC. While simultaneously teaching school, classical ballet and gymnastics, she was asked to choreograph what led to be part of the “beginning” of USA women’s gymnastics. Over the next 15 years, she personally choreographed and coached seven US Olympic gymnasts, developing their floor and balance beam routines. During this time, she as elected to be one of two women on the Foreign Relations Committee of Women’s Gymnastics. At 19, she was the youngest national and international judge for Women’s Gymnastics.
In 1997, she met and married Dr. Virgil Wallentine. He acts as a “color commentator” on her art. They cherish their time together, their blended families, and their eight very special grandchildren. The most important thing in her life has been family. She is still choreographing, but it’s now her family and art. Her daughter talked her into taking art lessons, and in 2014, she began taking lessons from Dennis Johnson at the Studio Gallery OKC and Annette Simpson in Scottsdale, AZ.
WHITNEY INGRAM WATKINS
Whitney Ingram Watkins’s creativity is inspired byher love of color and the natural beauty of the stones she uses. Whitney selects every bead, designs and creates each piece of jewelry. Gold dipped metals, silver, brass and copper combined with natural stones create unique conversation pieces. “I design jewelry that is unique and on-trend without being trendy. Women who wear my pieces define their own style.”
Whitney lives in Oklahoma City with her husband Andy and their two German Shepherds, Ziggy and Rosie. The couple’s love of travel has resulted in some beautiful and unique finds. Beads from Costa Rica to Colorado (and many places in between) make up her pieces. Whitney regularly attends the International Gem Show in Tucson and various regional bead shows. She uses only natural stones and high-quality findings. Each of her pieces is one of a kind and uniquely special, much like those who wear them.
