Events: Arizona - Phoenix - Scottsdale

Wilde Meyer Gallery showcases art that celebrates the uniqueness of life in the desert with “Something about the Southwest”.

Life is better as shown in Linda Carter Holman’s paintings. Carter Holman’s characters carry a bouquet of lilies in perfect satisfaction, indifferent to the distant storm over distant mesas, and other ladies sing of happiness and joy as they prepare for a luncheon on the terrace.

Stephen Morath takes viewers on a journey through a desert countryside loaded with Cholla, prickly pear, Saguaro and native shrubs. Morath often sets a vintage motel, car or other nostalgic elements in his prickly surroundings.

Using paint with unexpected materials like fabric, buttons, printed clippings, Charles Davison’s playful collages feature cowboys sporting big hats, fancy shirts and tiny dogs at their boots or Indians wearing funky headdresses and patchwork robes.

With swirling brush marks and earthy colors, Ka Fisher’s narrative paintings tell of native merchants selling wares at a roadside market or a woman observing her prize horse along the thicket.

Also showing will be abstracted equine paintings by Helen Durant, a new artist at Wilde Meyer, along with art by Paul Sheldon, Lance Green and many others.

"Something about the Southwest" opens May 3, 2012 and continues through June 6, 2012.