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Animals Are Wild
Ruth Tatter 
Glen Smith
Ruth Tatter: Burmese Python
Ruth Tatter: Burmese Python

Marigold Arts is please to present an exhibition of wildlife portraits by Ruth Tatter (watercolors) and Glen Smith (oils).  The exhibition will include images of animals we have come to think of as exotic as well as inhabitants of nearby forests, deserts, and wetlands.  Both artists are active wildlife preservationists.

Ruth Tatter: Ocelot

Ruth Tatter: Ocelot
 
 

Tatter’s wildlife portraits make the viewer the subject of an inscrutable animal gaze, inverting the usual perspective of animal-as-subject.  Liberated from notions of subjectivity and sentimentalism, Tatter’s wildlife scrutinize us, or simply go about the business of being wildlife, with no regard for the human viewer.  This perspective allows the viewer to effectively disappear, or to become part of the untamed landscape; destabilizing what we think we know about animals and our separateness from them. 
 
 

Ruth Tatter: Peacock
 

Ruth Tatter: Peacock
Her watercolor images are photographic in their realism and imbued with a sense of heart and dignity.  Her palette is influenced by the far-flung habitats and wetter climes that many of her subjects inhabit.   Tatter’s work has been exhibited and collected throughout the West.   She resides in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. 
 
 
 
 
 

Glen Smith: Scarlet Macaw and Friend

Glen Smith: Scarlet Macaw and Friend
 
 
 

Glen Smith employs his expressive oil paintings in the service of his environmental activism.  He recently painted a series of endangered animals.  His portrait of a grizzly bear hangs in the Washington D. C. office of Defenders of Wildlife, which used images of his artwork in a year-long public education campaign.   The endangered species series was awarded a gold certificate of excellence at the First International Eco Awards of the Natural Resources Defense Council.  Smith received a degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design and resides in Santa Fe. 
 
 

Glen Smith: Orangutan

Glen Smith: Orangutan

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Marigold Arts was established on Canyon Road in April 2002.  The gallery represents the best of fine art and craft by New Mexico artists, featuring handwoven textiles, and the large-format landscape photography of Kenneth Parker.  Marigold Arts represents a diverse range of fine art, including wearable art, watercolor paintings, sculpture, clay, fine furniture, glass, and jewelry.  Gallery artists welcome requests for custom commissions.
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