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PEAKE HEELING

Joe Milazzo, A Drive To Mammoth, Charcoal

Michael Enriquez, The Packer, Oil, 16x20

Including Cowboy Art, oils, acrylics, etchings, watercolors, and charcoal by these artists:

Edward Borein: (1872-1945) was the oldest of five children of the deputy sheriff of San Leandro, a town along one of the California cattle trails. The subjects available to him during his childhood--cowboys, Hispanic vaqueros, longhorn cattle, horses--determined his lifelong interests.
Nearly 400 different etchings by Borein are now documented. His mastery of this medium reveals a concern for strong design and rhythmic, eye-catching compositions consistent with his training as an illustrator. Many prints display a near-abstract sense of patterning in compositions in which the line quality varies for aesthetic rather than descriptive purposes.
Borein's fascination with the Spanish Colonial missions that pepper California forms a chapter in his career that distinguishes him--if nothing else had done--from other American Western artists.
Borein married in 1921 and moved to Santa Barbara. He remained here for the rest of his life as a prolific and successful independent artist, His goal was to capture a way of life as he knew it, and not to romanticize or sentimentalize. Yet, in documenting the life of the vaquero or the appearance of the California missions, he did not merely catalog a dry assortment of facts. He invested his images with his own very personal affection for the entire atmosphere, both material and immaterial, of the West and Southwest. His style actually seems to communicate the sun-drenched aridity of the desert and the open range, the largeness of the landscape, and the volatile spark that animates the inhabitants. Warm colors predominate in his watercolors, and compositions lacking the high noon clarity of broad daylight are rare in any of his favored media.
Michael Enriquez
Nancy Hodge
Joe Malazzo: Born and raised in California, Joe Milazzo attended Pasadena City College and Art Center College of Design. Joe was drawn to a fundamental medium, pen and ink, in which the most traditional Western themes are rendered.
Milazzo joins the prestigious list of artists who have rendered the poster for Santa Barbara's Old Spanish Days Fiesta and Rodeo for the years 1998, 1999, 2000, & 2001.
His delicate, yet intricate lines speak of a time remembered in our not-so-distant past, which honors the lifestyle of the legendary cowboy.
Charles Minsky Cinemetographer, photographer
Raymond Nordwall
Channing Peake (1910-1989) moved to California as a child. He received scholarships to both the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and the Santa Barbara School of Arts. He studied muralism with Diego Rivera in Mexico, followed by studies at the Art Students League of New York. There, he met Rico LeBrun, and through him, worked on murals with Lewis Rubenstein at Harvard and LeBrun on a WPA project for Pennsylvania Station. He returned to Santa Barbara County, where he was based for the rest of his life. There, he worked with Howard Warshaw, among others. He traveled and worked in Mexico, Central America and Europe, and was friends with notable artists Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot. He died in Santa Barbara, California in 1989. Channing Peake's own work is distinguished by his strong, abstracted shapes and bold use of blacks, red and blues.
Joel Phillips: Joel Phillips is a painter living and working in Thousand Oaks, California. He received a fine arts degree from Pepperdine University in 1982. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States.
Jeff Sojka
Peter Treadwell Photographer