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

RS Hanna Gallery

208 South Llano Street

Fredericksburg, Texas  78624

www.rshannagallery.com

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Phone: (830) 307-3073 

As featured in the article "Paving the Way:  Collecting Cityscapes"
American Art Collector Magazine - February 2012 Issue
Pages 60 - 81

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.

RS Hanna Gallery - Artist Margi Lucena

Artist Margi Lucena's painting "Winter View, Highway 1"

12" x 16" Pastel on Board

Artist Margi Lucena's painting "Little Anna's Road"

8" x 10" Pastel on Board

I love paintings with snow. I especially love the ones that have lots of color and light in them like two paintings done by artist Margi Lucena. These two amazing little pastels can be found at the RS Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Here's some biographical information from the artist.    

"I've always drawn and painted. When I was little, I would watch my Dad at his easel. The smells of paint, turpentine, and linseed oil were as comforting as the smell of home cooking. In recent years, I have found the pure color and amazing versatility of pastels have made it my favorite medium."  The amazing and magical landscape of New Mexico keeps me simultaneously grounded and floating on air. The light, atmosphere and color in the southwest are constantly changing. Whether I am painting en Plein Air or in the studio, I try to express what I see and how I feel about the beauty of the natural landscape that surrounds me. My goal as an artist is to establish a connection between my expression of what is before me, and you, the viewer.

Professional affiliations include: 

Pastel Society of New Mexico, Signature Member

Pastel Society of America

Plein Air Painters of New Mexico

Women Artists of the West, Associate Member

National League of American Pen Women

Recent Honors & Awards: 

2010 -The Pastel Journal 2010 Pastel 100, Landscape Division, Honorable Mention, Judge Paul Murray

2010 - Fine Art Studios Online (FASO) Jan. 2010, Second Place Overall, Judge Brian Blood

2010 - FASO, Jan. 2010, Outstanding Pastel, Judge Brian Blood

2009 - 17th National Pastel Painting Exhibition, 2009, PSNM, Artisan Santa  Fe Award, Judge Colette      Odya-Smith; 

2008 - New Mexico State Fair Hispanic Arts 2008, First and Second Place,  Pastels.