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INTERVIEW WITH LIVING MASTER

ALBERT HANDELL

Pastel World Article by Tai Meng Lim:

Could you kindly provide us with a concise overview of your background as a pastel artist and mentor?

I studied drawing at the Art Students League of New York on Saturdays when I was 16 and when I was 20 (1957) I started working there daily with Oils.
In 1966, out of curiosity, I decided to experiment with pastels and found them wonderful. I was like a fish going into water. My exhibition at the ACA gallery in New York City that September (1966) had a large room for my oils and a smaller room for my pastels. Pastel at that time was considered a secondary medium and yet I preferred the pastel.

The editor of Watson Guptill Art Book Publications came to the show and was very impressed and asked me to be part of the re-editing of their book (Pastel Painting Step by Step by Elinore Lathrop Sears). The book came out in 1968 and I became very well known for my pastels and was asked to judge the first exhibition of the Pastel Society of America in 1972. I continued working with pastel in the studio with portraits and nudes. 

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Read More (scroll down):   Pastel_World_5th_ALBERT_HANDEL.pdf,

Albert Handell, PAPNM Master Signature Member

https://www.alberthandellstudio.com/

Click here for ALL Show images.

Congratulations to Jay Parks, PAPNM Member for his award:

Congratulations to all  PAPNM Members juried into the Spring Online AIS Show.

PAPNM Paintings (for the indicated websites, go to the AIS link above; these are screenshots):

Please write to karen.halbert@gmail.com if your name is missing.

2000 Bellamah Ave NW

Albuquerque NM 87104

505-306-2977

(next to Hotel Albuquerque at Hotel Chaco)

https://galleryhozho.com/new-mexico-chromatics-pastel

Only 15 artists have been selected.

PAPNM Members among them:

Natasha Isenhour, Mike Mahon, Albert Handell, Paul Murray, Katherine Irish, Lorenzo Chavez, Marilyn Drake, Lee McVey

Gallery Hózhó presents a show by New Mexico’s premier pastel artists during the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) Fifteenth Biennial Convention, June 11th to June 16th. We will host artist guided instruction, talks, and viewing throughout the summer months. We welcome you to visit and view the blending and layers of color in compositions masterfully created by IAPS artists.

PAPNM Member, Dianne Stoffel, in the Pasatiempo

Manager of the Step Up Gallery at the Los Alamos  Mesa Public Library

With high praise in the latest Pasatiempo:

The Pasatiempo editor recommends the current exhibit at the Step Up Gallery at the Los Alamos Mesa Public Library running through Jun 25: 

Off Grid - Women of the Mesa 

https://stepupgallery.org/

The gallery is beautiful, well worth the visit.  The library is located at: 

2400 Central Avenue, Los Alamos

Current Hours

Hours:

Monday: 10am-8pm
Tuesday: 10am-8pm
Wednesday: 10am-8pm
Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday: 10am-6pm
Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: 1pm – 5pm

Congratulations to Kathleen Reilly, PAPNM Member, one of the top 30 finalists for 13th Annual Art Competition for Plein Air Salon.

Click here for all 30 finalists

PAPNM Artists in the 2024 Placitas Studio Tour: Connie Falk, Linda Heath and Katherine Irish.

https://placitasstudiotour.com/

https://placitasstudiotour.com/gallery-three-falk.html

https://placitasstudiotour.com/gallery-six-heath.html

https://placitasstudiotour.com/gallery-one-irish.html

https://placitasstudiotour.com/tour-map.html

Please let me know if you are participating with your gallery at this Saturday's Canyon Road Paint Out. I am adding one that I know, Marilyn Wightman.

Include the gallery address and an image though I might just list the papnm members who respond with the gallery AND its address. And/Or send me a map of the participants.

Also to be seen painting on the Road will be Natasha Isenhour at the Ventana Gallery and Donna Barnhill across the street at the Underwood Gallery (225).

American Women Artists' 2024 Online Juried Show

Congratulations to PAPNM Signature Members for their entries into this prestigious show: Carole Belliveau and Natasha Isenhour.

https://showsubmit.com/gallery/awa-2024-annual-online-juried-show

and awards presentation link on utube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePdkBkQF6U8

Katherine Gauntt, 8x6, NM Watercolor Spring Award

Congratulations to Katherine, PAPNM Member for the award.

Please write to karen.halbert@gmail.com if you also won an award (and are a PAPNM member) or when the full exhibit is posted on the NM Watercolor Society website: https://nmwatercolorsociety.org/.

Click on https://vimeo.com/936790988  for the whole, fascinating presentation  (click on the vimeo arrow to start/continue): 

MY PASTEL JOURNEY–Looking Back, Moving Forward

  by Nancy Silvia, PAPNM Signature Artist Member and Pastel Society of America among othersl

http://nancysilvia.com/theartist.html