Sunday Sep 15, 12-1pm
Booth 124

A Sunday noon kids celebration of arts and creativity. Professional instruction by the renowned artist and popular children’s book author Kelly Fischer.

Created for grades K-6, children will explore their creativity by drawing on tiles. Let your child’s creative spirit run free, stimulated by the setting in the middle of a prestigious international fine art fair. It’s the perfect environment for nurturing and challenging your child’s inventiveness and developing their imagination. They will receive individual attention. Then, families and kids will participate in a 20 minute expert-led tour of the fair after the arts session. Limited to 12 families.

About the Artist

Originally from the Memphis, Kelly now lives both in Bern, Switzerland and Memphis. She was the founder, headmistress and director of the English Montessori school in Bern for 17 years. Now a full time author, Kelly has published 11 children’s books. Published by Two Peas Publishing, her titles include: Santa Delivers Presents in the Big City, Polly Poplar Plays Dress Up, The Moon Throws a Birthday Party, and The Most Beautiful Color of All (was a finalist in the Children’s Picture Book category for the 2009 Indie Book Awards).

Her paintings have been featured at numerous galleries and exhibitions, including Art Basel Miami, the Austrian Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. She is represented by HG Contemporary Art in NYC.

Thursday September 12th

John Nieto was one of America’s most dynamic contemporary artists, concentrating on themes that transcend mere representation. He utilized intense primary colors, applied in bold strokes to give dimension and character to the canvas. In his etchings and drawings, Nieto employed classic linear techniques to create images of great detail and depth. In all of Nieto’s art, sensitivity and respect for his subject were projected.

He concentrated on capturing in his work his unique vision of the subjects he painted on canvases with vibrant, electric hues. The bold imagery of Nieto’s dynamic style is the essence of his art. The artist always tried to evoke a reaction or response from the viewer. His art was a synthesis of his philosophy and his technical versatility, a powerful expression of pride and vitality.

Nieto was and still is unique among contemporary American artists. His personal philosophies were a vital element of his consummate style. Nieto stated, “I employ a subject matter that is familiar and express it the way I see it”. This is accomplished via his use of vibrant color and strong assertive line. The combination of his sensitivity with his technical versatility became the vehicle that allowed him to transcend the ordinary.

After participating in an exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. John met with President Reagan in the Oval Office of the White House and presented him with the painting “Delegate to the White House”. The painting hung in Washington for the duration of the President’s term in office and now has been included in the presidential library.

Nieto’s distinctive style, combination of subject matter, bold comparisons and searing color, is instantly recognizable and collectors throughout the United States and abroad value and prize his work. He has produced bronze sculptures, etchings, lithographs and silk- screen prints, in addition to drawings in pastel crayons and charcoal.

Each summer he has had an annual exhibition in Santa Fe, NM at Ventana Fine Art and Altamira Fine Art in Jackson Hole, WY.

Sadly, John Nieto passed away on Feb. 9, 2019., at age 69.

Nieto’s work has been featured in scores in solo shows in art galleries nationwide, and won many arts awards in art competitions. He is in the permanent collections of many of the nation’s leading art museums, such as: 

Buffalo Bill Museum/Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, WY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hot Springs Arkansas
Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
Jackson Hole Historic Museum, Jackson Hole, WY
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin,
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Heard Museum, Contemporary Native American, Phoenix, AZ
Smithsonian Institution “American Indian Contemporary Art” Washington, DC
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Friday September 13th, 2-3pm

Presented by Imago Galleries. Photographer Jeremy Kidd has a remarkable, eye-catching, and memorable method for exploring transcendental urban landscapes. According to Kidd, it seems unrealistic to expect a single photographic shot, a single moment in time, to convey the human experience of seeing. He believes we visually explore our environment in the third and fourth dimensions as we build our personal visual journey.

His unique photographic technique is explained – compositing up to 100 long exposures into a single piece, is a more cohesive way of expressing the filmic. It allows Kidd to explore movement and condensed time and lends itself to his concerns with exemplifying the transcendental and the essence of place, in the urban/landscape.

Though he is not directly referencing (Hudson River School Painters), Kidd draws parallels with his methods and his photos have the often-transcendental qualities that are encountered in their landscapes. However, he does aim to extol something of this Hudson River School within the urban context – An “urbanized Idealism”.

Kidd presents a condensed vision of multiple photographs as a metaphor for repeated perceptual glances. He engages the viewer by conveying an animated experience of the dynamic urban infrastructure.

Mr. Kidd is currently represented by Imago Galleries.

See below his resume of Solo exhibitions, Cataloguesof his work, Public/private collections and where he has taught.

Jeremy Kidd Selected One Person Exhibitions:

2016
Panorama Mesdag Museum, Netherlands
Desert Seam, Imago Gallery, CA
The Interrupted Landscape, MOAH Museum of Art and History Lancaster, CA

2015
Photo Independent Raleigh Studios Hollywood, CA
Cypress Collage Gallery, CA

2013
Temporal Excursions, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, CA
Aldeburgh Lookout Residency, Caroline Wiseman Gallery, UK

2009
Fictional Realities: Fahey Klein Gallery, CA

2008
Hyper Architectural Typologies: California Museum of Photography University of California Riverside, CA

2007
Fictional Realities: Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Scott Richards Contemporary Art, CA

2004
Fotofest Biennial: with Ann Stautberg, Barbara Davies, Gallery, Houston, TX

2003
Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY

2002
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Catalogues
2007 Tyler Stallings – “Fictional Realities-The Lore of Human Kind” in Jeremy Kidd’s New Work Laguna Museum of Art, 2007.

2004
Frances Spalding – “A Vital Simplicity Four Generations of Nicholson’s Family”, (pgs.10,11,27) UK

2002
Christopher Miles – “Jeremy Kidd Out of Order” Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, CA

2001
Max Presneil – “Rising Tide” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Curated by Max Presneil

Public/Corporate Collections
2014
Constellation Place, LLC

2013
Merrill Lynch

2012
Cerebral Palsy Alliance, Sydney
Helene Galen

2011
Swire HQ, Hong Kong

2010
Wallace Annenberg
Red Bull

2009
Milbank Tweed Hadley Mc Cloy LLP International Law Firm, Los Angeles

2008
BMW
Biogen, MA
McMaster-Carr, Santa Fe Springs, CA

2007
American Embassy Algeria

2007
American Embassy Panama

2004
Nokia

2002
California State Senate Contemporary Art Collection, CA

1999
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

1999
Kaiser Permanente, CA

Teaching
2000
Otis Parsons School of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1999
California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA

1998
National University, San Diego, CA