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12-07-2006, 01:38 AM
Artist Pair Featured in Macey Center Exhibit
By: Socorro Reporter
2006 SONewMex.com - Permission To Reprint Granted
Socorro – New Mexico Tech’s Macey Center will begin the year with an exhibit by two well-known Socorro artists in a duo show titled "Alchemy."
Fernando Mercado and Sharon Fullingim will share the upstairs gallery space at Macey Center. The exhibition will open with an artists’s reception from 5-7 pm on Jan. 2, 2007, and will hang through the month of January.
Without even seeing the exhibit, we know it is aptly named. Sharon Fullingim certainly has found an alchemy in her stone works and metal sculptures – as was evidenced by her crane sculpture which was pictured on the October/November cover of Steppin’ Out.
Fernando Mercado, meanwhile, will exhibit a variety of mediums previously unshown to the public. These include, he said recently, cartoons, collages, etchings and lithographs along with drawings of paper and recent paintings.
A self-taught artist, Sharon grew up in rural New Mexico which doubtless helped her develop her keen eye for wildlife, their anatomy, their environment and their habits. And her enthusiasm about life and its beauty is infectiously protrayed through her work. Her painted etchings of hummingbirds are delicately detailed. But it is stone work which has captured her creative imaginations in recent years. She has won numerous awards and honors and shown in nationally juried shows.
Fernando Mercado began his artistic career as an illustrator with Boeing, working on the prototype of Challenger and spent the next decades in California garnering a name for himself as an artist. He moved to New Mexico because of his fascination with light and its dance across the southwestern colors. For several years, he was artist-in-residence of the San Acacia Schoolhouse Gallery until he retired. He now lives in Socorro where he shares studio space with Natasha Isenhour on Hwy. 60 at the west edge of the city.
By: Socorro Reporter
2006 SONewMex.com - Permission To Reprint Granted
Socorro – New Mexico Tech’s Macey Center will begin the year with an exhibit by two well-known Socorro artists in a duo show titled "Alchemy."
Fernando Mercado and Sharon Fullingim will share the upstairs gallery space at Macey Center. The exhibition will open with an artists’s reception from 5-7 pm on Jan. 2, 2007, and will hang through the month of January.
Without even seeing the exhibit, we know it is aptly named. Sharon Fullingim certainly has found an alchemy in her stone works and metal sculptures – as was evidenced by her crane sculpture which was pictured on the October/November cover of Steppin’ Out.
Fernando Mercado, meanwhile, will exhibit a variety of mediums previously unshown to the public. These include, he said recently, cartoons, collages, etchings and lithographs along with drawings of paper and recent paintings.
A self-taught artist, Sharon grew up in rural New Mexico which doubtless helped her develop her keen eye for wildlife, their anatomy, their environment and their habits. And her enthusiasm about life and its beauty is infectiously protrayed through her work. Her painted etchings of hummingbirds are delicately detailed. But it is stone work which has captured her creative imaginations in recent years. She has won numerous awards and honors and shown in nationally juried shows.
Fernando Mercado began his artistic career as an illustrator with Boeing, working on the prototype of Challenger and spent the next decades in California garnering a name for himself as an artist. He moved to New Mexico because of his fascination with light and its dance across the southwestern colors. For several years, he was artist-in-residence of the San Acacia Schoolhouse Gallery until he retired. He now lives in Socorro where he shares studio space with Natasha Isenhour on Hwy. 60 at the west edge of the city.