Tuesday, August 21, 2012

RS Hanna Gallery's David Cheifetz Featured in American Art Collector Magazine


       Catch a Rising Star


RS Hanna Gallery is proud to debut a large collection of new works from young David Cheifetz in their exclusive Texas representation.  Opening September 1st in Fredericksburg,  this show is previewed in both American Art Collector and Southwest Art Magazines' September issues.  


Embraced by both collectors and national media alike, the artist combines modern images with an old world sensibility. 


Artfully mixing the centuries styles as he does the paint on the palette, rich with color and innuendo of meaning, he renders formal composition a twist. 


As an empty vase sits next to its packing supplies on Vermeer's draping or a surprising office building glows in city lights like a shrine.


"Like an old soul in a young body, his work is ripe yet new at the same time; emerging from the unknown with a smile."~ Maggie Gillespie



208 South Llano Street
Fredericksburg, Texas  78624

Phone: (830) 307-3073 

Friday, June 8, 2012

RS Hanna Gallery - "En Plein Air" Show


June 1 ~ June 30


Nothing is as inspirational as the experience of the timelessness of nature that speaks through plein air, waiting for an artist to transcribe on canvas or paper....the experience of a meadow seen after a spring rain, a composition of earth and sky enlivened that stops our thoughts and captures our imagination for a lifetime.  Our exceptional plein air artists, Gene Costanza, Peter Fiore, Frank Gardner, Marc Hanson, Natasha Isenhour, Rusty Jones, Margi Lucena, Neil Patterson, Bob Rohm, Jeri Salter, Hodges Soileau and Marie Wise capture the moment in the natural world as only such talent can do....come see and enjoy this breath of fresh air, en the plein.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

"Spring Showcase"


"Spring Showcase"

Featured Artists:

Joy Kroeger Beckner & E Melinda Morrison 

Available at RS Hanna Gallery - Fredericksburg, Texas

RS Hanna Gallery is proud to announce the opening of our Spring Showcase featuring contemporary original oils by E Melinda Morrison and sculpture by Joy Kroeger Beckner.  

This showcase is a nod to the contemporary color of affinity: the playful images of Joy Kroeger Beckner’s bronze series of dachshunds and the large sale dancers and eclectic personalities captured by E Melinda Morrison.  These two exceptional talents, winner of numerous national awards, including the prestigious Ellin P. Speyer prize from the National Academy and the Leonard J. Meiselman Award bring a lightness of being and a certain spontaneity to the stories they tell us, entrancing with expression of wit and affinity.  
At RS Hanna Gallery.... it's about art. The real thing.  That undefinable but very real commodity that quickens the senses, captures us in a moment and connects us somehow to what we consider beautiful, important, desirous.... enchanting us for a lifetime.
Proud to be a part of Fredericksburg's growing and vibrant celebration of the arts.  Proud to represent all of our fine "artist's artists" in our  beautifully restored, well lighted place a few steps off the beaten path.


Available at RS Hanna Gallery - Fredericksburg, Texas

Join us for a reception on Friday, April 6th from 6-8PM.
Discover a jewel box of fine art at RS Hanna Gallery, 208 South Llano Street, 830-307-3071


Thursday, January 26, 2012

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Artist Peter Fiore

"Late Summer, Red Barn" is a 16" x 20" Oil
"Late Summer Shed" is a 14" x 19" Oil

"Autumn Field" is a 9" x 12" Oil

"January Gold" is a 24" x 18" Oil

"Going Home, Winter Dusk" is a 18" x 24" Oil

"Distant Glow, January" is a 12" x 16" Oil
RS Hanna Gallery proudly features the beautiful work of Pennsylvania artist Peter Fiore.  His paintings are lovely... strong in dramatic light and rich in color.  Come see them in person!

Fiore was recently quoted in the November 2011 edition of American Art Collector magazine as saying "It's my vision of what I'm looking at.  I'm re-orchestating the entire landscape, changing how I perceive it.  I want people to see what I feel," explains Fiore.  "I look at the landscape as a jumping-off point...I think of the landscape as an abstract thought."

Here's a brief biography about Peter Fiore.

Peter Fiore is an american landscape painter who is best known for painting light and his striking use of color. His landscape paintings are widely collected and are in many corporate and private collections. He has won a number of awards and has been featured in an assortment of publications including Fine Art Connoisseur as an "Artist to Watch".

Peter was born in Teaneck, NJ in 1955. He studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League of New York. Previously, he worked as a professional illustrator where he collaborated on thousands of projects. He has been on the faculty at Pratt Institute, Syracuse University and presently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Peter has given numerous guest lectures and workshops on painting. His work is represented in prestigious galleries across the country. Peter lives and works along the Delaware River in northeastern Pennsylvania.





Marc Hanson's Paintings

Across the Pond - 11" x 14" Oil 
Morning Shadows - 12" x 16" Oil

Record Flow 12" x 16" Oil 
Along The Road Alone -  8" x 10" Oil

RS Hanna Gallery is very proud to represent Marc Hanson.  Here's a sampling of his work that's available for you to see!   





Artist’s Statement

Marc R. Hanson

A viewer of my paintings wrote to me recently and had this to say, “Your 
landscapes are so evocative, for me so emotional. You have a gift for portraying more 
than realism in your landscapes-not something fantastical, but something 
simultaneously approachable and not. Not everyone will do what you do, but so many of 
us are deluded or ambitious enough to aspire to.”  This very generous and kind 
statement describes exactly how I would hope that my art is received by those who view 
it.  I try to live up to this ideal with each painting.  

  One of the reasons that I’m a visual artist is that it has always been more 
effective for me to share my excitement about the natural world through visual means, 
painting or drawing, than it has been through writing or speaking about it.  My love of 
the land, the Midwest in particular, and my desire to communicate that deep seeded 
love is what drives my work.  Painting is the vehicle for my expression of that love.  My 
purpose is not to replicate the specific or dwell on the spectacular, as much as it is to 
observe the specific and to discover the beauty in the seemingly unspectacular.  My 
goal is to paint a sense of place and what that means to me as an artist.  

  Typically my work is painted on location during all seasons of the year.  The 
paintings created on location are painted on a smaller scale in oils.  The smaller scale of 
these paintings allows me to capture those fleeting moods, and quickly changing light or 
weather effects.  I’ve painted this way, en plein air, for many years now, and have 
completed many, many hundreds of these studies.  Most of these small paintings are 
painted either on linen or primed board and are completed in one to one and half hours. 

The studies represent my immediate reaction to the subject matter and are a record of 
that short period in time. Just as importantly, they build an enormous library of visually  recallable
information that is indispensable to me in the studio.  When working on larger paintings in 
the studio, studies and the memory of the time and place are 
invaluable to me and form the basis for much of my studio work. 

My most recent work has been to create large landscape paintings, as large in 
scale as those painted in the studio, entirely on location.  Some of these paintings are 
completed in one session, others are completed over a longer period of time lasting 
several sessions.  The challenge that working from life in this way presents is 
overridden by the benefit to my understanding of light and color on the landscape, and 
the authenticity that it brings to my paintings.  I foresee my art continuing to move in this 
direction, major works mostly completed on site. 

Artist Gene Costanza at RS Hanna Gallery, Texas

Artist Gene Costanza's original oil painting "Dive Shop, Belize" measures 16" x 32"

Artist Gene Costanza's original oil painting "I Love Eastpoint" measures 16" x 32"

I love these two amazing paintings by Gene Costanza.  I've always held a special place in my heart for coastal scenes.  The vibrant, beautiful colors in these two are just terrific!  


Both of these paintings can be located at the RS Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas.  
Here's some biographical information about Gene.  


GENE COSTANZA

American, b.1954 

Gene Costanza is a contemporary realist painter of traditional subject matter, focusing primarily on landscape and man's interaction with it and nature. Equally at home painting “en plein air’ as well as in the studio, Costanza orchestrates paintings that engage the viewer to enter the subject with him by capturing the light and atmosphere.

Over twenty-five years of his life was spent in Law Enforcement in such specialties as SWAT, K9 Handler, K9 Supervisor, Patrol Supervisor and Detective.  About mid career, the desire to return to artistic endeavors surfaced after having been abandoned in his early twenties.  Though dormant, there was a constant underlying desire to again delve into the mysteries of paint, light, and subject matter.  Costanza believes it took a decade and a half of discipline to mold his personal tendencies to study and work as hard as one needs to in the very difficult endeavor of making a good painting.  Costanza retired from law enforcement to become a full-time painter.

Primarily “self-taught,” he has studied with a number of great contemporary artist/teachers including; Kevin McPherson, Matt Smith, Jeffery Watt, and has a long standing close personal as well as professional friendship with Scott L. Christensen.  It is Christensen whom Costanza credits with most of his growth.  Frequently these two can be found painting, fishing, hunting or just enjoying the fellowship of intimate friendship.

His work is in collections from coast to coast and is included in the permanent collection of the Academy Museum in Easton, Maryland.

Costanza is married and has two grown sons and makes his home in Eugene, OR.