gallupARTS is pleased to present “Holler to High Desert” by Dana Aldis at ART123 Gallery, running from October 8 to 25.

Dana Aldis, MFA, is a professional artist and teacher currently residing in Gallup. She is an avid portrait and plein air painter who specializes in working from a traditional palette to create timeless images of life and nature. Utilizing techniques born of both tradition and also incorporating modern innovations, her subjects radiate depth and warmth. Her work is focused on the
fathomless humor and vulnerability of beauty she encounters and can be found in private collections
nationwide.

Twenty-five years ago, Aldis left New York City to help renovate her parents’ house in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Shepherdstown is a small town within a couple of hours’ drive of Washington, DC.

“Shepherdstown is stubbornly quaint, historic, and rural, and my parents’ house sits on ten acres of mostly untouched West Virginia forest,” says Aldis. “I take the opportunity to walk the property every chance I visit. It is a world away from the high desert I have come to know in New Mexico. In this show, I wanted to bring together two very different versions of landscape that bring me great joy, along with works of pure plein air from my travels to Pagosa Springs, Colorado.”

“We are excited for East to meet West in this landscape painting show by an artist who has a unique ability to capture the personality of a landscape,” says gallupARTS Executive Director Rose Eason.

The opening of “Holler to High Desert” will be on Saturday, October 11, from 7 – 9 pm. Dana will present an artist talk at ART123 Gallery on Wednesday, October 22, at 6 pm.