Jeremy Manyik, Sally Lincoln, John Suhay and Anne Marie Lay : through May 8, 2010
Jeremy Manyik
Jeremy Manyik was the Arts Center’s choice for best professional artist at the 2009 Colorado State Fair. His prize is a solo exhibit at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center.
Though his style generally focuses on wildlife, Native American people and scenes from Bent’s Old Fort, Manyik branched out after a trip to Japan with the Koshare Indian Dancers in 2007. His painting Conclusion was inspired by the traditional art forms of Japan coupled with the contemporary culture he experienced on his trip. This piece was not only the Arts Center’s Choice, but was also named best of two-dimensional art by professionals. This painting features a woodblock-style background of samurai warriors in battle with a smiling, pigtailed girl in a bright pink t-shirt in the foreground.
As the program director and curator for the Koshare Indian Museum in La Junta, Manyik is exposed to fine Western and Native American art on a daily basis. He also had the benefit of coming from an artistic family. His mother taught him and his twin brother to paint at an early age. He notes that his experience as a Koshare dancer when he was young heavily influences his artwork today.
John Suhay
At age 86, John Suhay, photographer-in-residence at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center and self-taught photographer, continues photographing various scenes and landscapes throughout Pueblo. Freed from commercial restraints, Suhay's photographs are rough, edgy, immediate and powerful. His archive contains over 200,000 photos, most of them taken in and around Pueblo over the last half of the century. Some mark the routine commercial work that supported Suhay since he became a full-time photographer in 1964. This exhibit features Suhay’s photographs from the Arts Center’s permanent collection.
Portrait of the American Soldier by Sally Lincoln
This exhibit highlights the stories of men and women soldiers from past and present wars through portraiture. Some were in the military brief
ly while others belonged up to 30 years. Sally Lincoln began painting portraits of American soldiers in 2007. When she returned to the U.S. from the Caribbean in March 2007, she started to think about what to do next. The idea of the injured men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan kept creeping into her mind and she decided to do a project revolving around soldiers. After failed attempts at contacting two army medical centers where the majority of wounded soldiers were treated, Lincoln heard from the Veterans' Administration Medical Center. They responded enthusiastically to her preliminary inquiries, and asked if she would be willing to paint veterans from other conflicts.
Anne Marie Lay
Anne Marie Lay was the Arts Center’s choice for best emerging artist at the 2008 Colorado State Fair. Her exhibit highlights new work. Lay uses her artwork as a way to express feelings that she has difficulty express
ing in any other way. “I have become more interested in attempting to convey ideas and emotion in art, rather than doing something purely representational or realistic,” Lay said. Many of her pieces relate to the subjects of life, death, fate, and the human relationship with the universe and the forces beyond our control. She likes to use symbolism to express ideas and emotion, and tries to tell a story with her pieces.
Lay is an art education student at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and also holds an interior design degree from Pikes Peak Community College. She lives northeast of Pueblo on a ranch with her husband, Edwin, and two-year-old son, Ryder.
Visit these local exhibits on the first, second and third floor foyer galleries
Image credits: [Top] Alethea Jarvis by Sally Lincoln| [Bottom] Anxiety by Anne Marie Lay
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