Daily Archives: March 18, 2009

Introducing digital artist

ShaRi Brooks

The Dry Heat Gallery is pleased to announce that we have added another member to our stable of exceptional artists!

Digital artist and photographer, ShaRi Brooks creates what has come to be known as wOManDalas.  They begin as original photographs that undergo a magical transformation and emerge as calidescope-esque, meditation focal points.

The following is ShaRi’s artist statement:

Happiness runs in a circular motion.
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea.
Everybody is a part of everything anyway,
You can have everything if you let yourself be.
~Donovan Leitch

This refrain from the song ‘Happiness Runs’ pretty much sums the affect mandalas, or wOManDalas as i call them. has on both myself and the viewer, as seen in this quote by writer and friend Michelle Miller Allen McCallum,  “Your mandalas are so amazing, I am in awe. You found it! Endless bottomless potentials…makes me think of all the dimensions we don’t know about, of our existing…”

I discovered mandalas through Jungian psychology as a part of my post~graduate studies in art therapy at the University of New Mexico. Mandala means center in Sanskrit, the ancient East Indian language. Other meanings include “circle circumference” “completion” and “magic circle”. My wOManDalas are digitally produced in Photoshop from my original photos. As they come together, it certainly feels like magic as the pattern begins to reveal itself. On my blog, http://womandalas.blogspot.com/, I have posted a ‘Sorceress’ photo next to the wOManDala that came from it. This is the source photo from which the mandala originated. Sometimes the original image can be found in its mandala, but most of the time it morphs into a completely new and surprising form!

Mandalas are intricately linked with the movement of consciousness and are a focal point for meditation and contemplation, and I must admit, I am somewhat addicted to making them. They are my ‘apples’, as in a mandala a day keeps the doctor away

ShaRi’s wOManDalas are now available at The Dry Heat Gallery!

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Camouflage by Karen Waters

The Dry Heat Gallery would like to congratulate photographer Karen Waters for winning first place in the All God’s Creatures People’s Choice Awards!  Linda Laitner and Helen Vanderbeek were tied for 2nd place and Gail Yovanovich came in 3rd.

Early Morning Breakfast by Linda Laitner

God Bless America by Helen Vanderbeek

At Dusk by Gail Yovanovich

We would like to offer our sincere thanks to all the wonderful artists who participated in All God’s Creatures and to all the photography connoisseurs who attended!

-DeAnna Dimmitt and Rick Meiers

Dry Heat Photography

Soul Portraiture Continues with “Electro-Light”

The Dry Heat Gallery is proud to host this series of juried fine art photography exhibitions.  Soul Portraiture is a journey into the essence of life.  In a series of four shows we will explore the energy and spirit that defines life through a variety of subject matter.  In “Electro-Light” both professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit up to five images illustrating the ambiance found in the night life.

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Rules For Submission

Jury fee of $25 may be paid via Pay Pal or by check. To pay by Pal Pal click here. You will be re-directed to a secure page. If paying by check please make checks payable to Dry Heat Photography.  Please note that we are not able to consider your work for this show unless the jury fee has been paid.

Artists may submit up to five digital images sized no larger than 485 pixels in any direction.  Please include image titles, format, and finished sizes for each image.  Send images with artist’s bio and resume to info@dryheatphotography.com.

Deadline for submission is  May 31, 2009

All accepted artwork must be delivered to the gallery no later than June 5, 2009.  All artists are responsible for the matting and framing of their own images and all artwork must be ready to hang when delivered.  Works selected by the jurors will demonstrate excellent composition, technical skill, and a strong sense of presence.

All participating artists are invited to attend the shows so that they may be present to represent their work. In addition, there will be prizes! At each show gallery directors DeAnna Dimmitt and Rick Meiers will conduct a “People’s Choice” poll in which everyone who attends the event will be able to vote for the piece they like best.

Prizes will be awarded as follows:

1st Place – $100 Cash

2nd Place – $50 credit towards framing services at Dry Heat Gallery

3rd Place -  $25 credit to be applied towards the jury fee of the next Soul Portraiture show

An artist’s reception will be held Tuesday June 9, 2009 at the Dry Heat Gallery

For more information please contact:

DeAnna Dimmitt

info@dryheatphotography.com

The Dry Heat Gallery is located at:

4685 Corrales Rd. Ste 4

Corrales, NM 87048

(please do not mail checks to the above address)