Sandusky Studios Opening Reception

I am now managing the Sandusky Studios project in Salida, which was conceived in January during the Inaugural Exhibit featuring Jimmy Descants' sculptural installations and my pastels and oils. The building worked out really well for the showing and making of artwork and we had a lot of interest from artists in Salida to make it available for studio/gallery space....so....the partners of Milagro Design, LLC in January, 2009, decided to use the Sandusky as an art incubator for Salida, Colorado. What once was the empty upstairs of the historic building now serves as a space allowing artists to pursue their creative ambitions in an energized community of like-minded spirits. The long hallway with it's room-sized skylight creates a natural gallery space available to artists for exhibitions, movie showings, classrooms, and community art events.

The project is going well...all 10 studio spaces have been rented out, and artists are busy making things, work is being created...there are paintings, and assemblages on display in the gallery, movies will be shown starting this Sunday, March 15th, by Matthew Lyons Clark..
I am teaching workshops and classes in my studio, and we are scheduling events now for the spring and summer.

We had a very well attended opening last Friday night and will be doing this on a regular basis..so keep tuned in for announcements and dates of happenings....

Artists of Sandusky Studios

Ted Fish

Tara Gale

Susan Mayfield

William Boddy

Judith Hilmer

Cara Barone

Gloria Brown

Paulette Tilden

Matthew Lyons Clark

Julie Miller

Inaugural Exhibit

he Inaugural Ball Exhibit on Tuesday night drew hundreds of happy citizens to the Sandusky building to celebrate Barack Obama's inauguration. Festivities began early that evening and lasted into the night with happy revelers migrating between various parties around town. Many of the guests wore ball gowns, tuxedos, or other interesting party outfits assembled for this special occasion.

The upstairs of the Sandusky building was transformed into an exciting art venue, with rooms filled with Jimmy Descant's assemblages, Susan Mayfield's paintings, a video room put together by Matthew Clark who ran an endless loop of President Obama's Inauguration, and wonderful food artfully displayed and generously donated by Michelle Gapp. The positive energy flowed throughout the evening, and the combination of art, food, music, and the promise of a new era created an electric atmosphere of goodwill and fun for all..

Susan Mayfield

January 17, 2009

Inauguration Exhibit with Rocketman

I am truly excited to be a part of Jimmy Descant's exhibit that will be held during President Obama's Inauguration. Jimmy is an artist nationally known for his sculptural "rockets", among other art objects he meticulously crafts. He has a passionate political voice that is powerfully expressed through his most recent work, sculptural installations that combine iconic, sometimes startling imagery with Jimmy's elegant craftmanship. I will have several paintings hanging alongside as counterpoints to these provocative pieces. Details below:


Art as Microscope on America, Past and Future.
By James E. Descant (Rocketman)
Represented by Culture Clash Gallery www.deluxerocketships.com
In commemoration of the historical Inauguration of President Barack Obama,
2009, the first year of the 21st Century.

January 17 - 20 at 222 F St., Sandusky Bldg., above Verdigris
Salida, Colorado
Opening Reception Sat. 17 4 - 10 pm Sun. & Mon. 18 & 19, 4 - 6 pm
Inaugural Ball / Closing Reception Tues. 20, 6 - 10 pm

Special Guest Artist Susan Mayfield

~ All showings are free and open to the public!~
~ Discussion, discourse, and conversation
are allowed and encouraged~

Colorado Fall Photos

A slideshow of some of my photos of the beautiful fall we have experienced here in Colorado.

http://picasaweb.google.com/susanmayfieldart/ColoradoFallPhotos#slideshow

These were taken from in and around Salida, Lost Lake near Cottonwood Pass, Mesa Verde National Park, the Rico and Telluride areas, and Black Canyon of the Gunnison.

The aspen was in its full fall glory and there had been 3 inches of snow on the San Juan Mountains, and it was one of the more breathtaking scenes I had ever witnessed. Some of the photos were taken out of the car window, (passenger side) as you can probably tell.

Please ignore the numbers on the captions.

Salida Show at the Steam Plant!!

On a cold and rainy Saturday night, a festive crowd showed up for my opening of new Salida paintings at the Steam Plant. Amazing food by Tyler and Celebrations, and the Steam Plant staff was great. Thanks to my sweet Lee and everyone who helped pull this together. I appreciate all the local support too; thanks to everyone showing up in the pouring rain....

The show will be up through the month of October, for those who missed the opening.

Susan Mayfield

“Salida Paintings”

You are invited to the Opening Reception

Saturday, October 11

5:00-7:00

Paquette Gallery, Salida Steam Plant, Sackett Ave.

Salida, CO

Susan Mayfield Bio

Susan Mayfield is an artist well known for her use of color and light in her pastel and oil landscapes. A native of Charleston, SC, she and her husband, Lee Hunnicutt, currently divide their time between the Lowcountry of South Carolina, and Salida, Colorado, finding inspiration in the natural beauty of both environments.

After graduating with honors in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston, in South Carolina, Mayfield continued her studies with many prominent contemporary artists. Her career has included solo and group exhibits in galleries such as the Wells Gallery, in Charleston, SC, the Joyce Robins Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, The Red Piano Gallery in Hilton Head, SC, the Gibbes Museum of Art, among many others. Her work is found in corporate and private collections, and her paintings have been exhibited internationally in the Art in the Embassies program. In addition to creating artwork, she teaches pastel and landscape painting workshops around the country, and ongoing classes in Salida and Charleston.

Mayfield takes frequent painting excursions to places that provide her inspiration, such as the high mountain deserts of New Mexico, the clear springs and cypress swamps of Florida, and recently to Thailand and Vietnam. Her work has focused on life near the water, from the sea islands of Georgia to the cypress swamps and black water creeks of her native South Carolina, to the white-water rivers of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Mayfield has explored the wetlands and the people who live there through paint and pastel. She has felt a sense of purpose to record and depict the way of life that exists on the rivers, creeks, and ocean; a way of life that has disappeared at a furious pace through development and natural causes.

She shows the same sensibility in her recent paintings from her new Colorado surroundings. The back alleys of Salida, the dramatic seasonal changes, the monumental beauty of the mountains against the big Colorado sky, provide constant inspiration to this artist. The dynamic, ever-changing Arkansas River is of particular interest as subject matter, from the raging early summer whitewater to the quiet flow through snow-covered banks in the winter.

October at the Steam Plant..."Salida Paintings"

Come see the new paintings inspired by life in Salida. Opening reception, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 at the Paquette Gallery, Salida Steam Plant, 5:00-7:00.

Fall Art Classes

I will be starting up another month of art classes in October.
The pastel classes will be held on Wednesdays, October 8th-29th,
from 6:30-8:30, in Salida, CO.

email me for info: susanmayfieldart@gmail.com

News and Happenings

I will be the featured artist for the month of October, 2008, at the Paquette Gallery at the Steam Plant, in Salida, CO. Come to the reception Saturday, October 11, from 5:00-7:00.

Included in the show will be new pastels and oils from my Salida Series.