Harwood

January 2012

An Anthology of a Gay Artist
Jonathan Ryan Lee
1950 – 2011

Jonathan Ryan Lee’s very personal and diverse work drew inspiration from his diverse life.  Always “out” in life often brought challenges.  Similar to his life, Jonathan’s work was often controversial and at the same time beautiful.  Jonathan’s work consists mainly of objects, drawings, oil paintings, watercolors, and relief prints.
 
Never to be one to give up, once he started to lose his vision he switched to writing; completing two novels, a book of poetry, and a study of long-term gay relationships.  Rushing to finish it before cancer took his life, the day before he died he put the finishing touches on a screenplay.
 
Roy Lee
Jonathan’s Life Partner

Encaustic and Silk
Evey Jones and Harriette Tsosie

Albuquerque artists Evey Jones and Harriette Tsosie explore the media of encaustic (pigmented wax) and silk in two exhibitions slated for the Harwood Art Center January and February 2012.

Jones' work features ink on silk and focuses on themes of change and loss, inspired by the recent death of her mother.  The work intimates a larger exhibition scheduled at the art center for April 2013. Tsosie's work is encaustic on panel.  The pieces are predominantly mandalas, which represent wholeness, and some are based on the I-Ching, an
ancient Chinese book of divination.  Central themes of the I Ching are the balance of opposites and the inevitability of change. 
"I'm interested in the role of chance in our lives," says Tsosie