Satellite Coffee (Nobhill) Featuring:
Evan Travnicek

Artist Statement:

Coming Soon!

Satellite Coffee (Alameda) Featuring:
Jennifer Berry

Artist Bio:

I am an artist living in Albuquerque and exhibiting both in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. My earliest memories are of drawing, usually people, faces and figures were always my favorite. I first received mainstream recognition for my art in high school student and was featured in American Artist.

I was accepted to Eastern Michigan University with an art merit scholarship when I was only 15 and I went on to receive my BFA, then Portfolio Center (a top-ranked creative ad/design school) for a couple more years...

Then, 10 years as an art director for some very prestigious ad agencies and well-known clients. In 1997, I decided to pursue my art again and took a hiatus from advertising. It's worked out better than I could've ever expected and I've never looked back. Now, my paintings can be found in collections around the world.

In 2005, Neiman Marcus purchased seven of my large-scale abstract paintings for their corporate collection housed at their Dallas headquarters. In 2007, I had a painting in a featured home in Architectural Digest.

Artist Statement

I am a prolific painter, to say the least. I usually finish 3 paintings a day and often have more than a dozen in progress at any given time. I've found that this method of working is the only way that I can keep the 'painter's block' at bay. I have a BFA in painting and was formally trained which has mainly served to make me feel overwhelmed and often intimidated by the blank canvas staring at me mockingly.

About 2 years ago, on a whim, I discovered that if I set a goal for myself to paint for 6 hours every day, minimum, every day, no exceptions, that pushing myself like that would force me through the block. Well, it worked wonders and now it's how I have to paint. The only problem was that the paintings were stacking up and there were too many to travel with and do art shows, which was the main venue I'd been selling in since 1997.

So now I’ve been able to expand my sales venues to include Art Expo & Solo as well as many other prestigious shows and exhibits and I’m exited to be able to show my work at Satellite Coffee & Flying Star now as well.

Satellite Coffee (Montgomery) Featuring:
Spring Griffin

Artist Bio:

Spring, born in Oakland, CA, 1975, has participated in a number of group exhibitions, which include:

Scheduled for August 2007: “Bare”, Arts Alliance Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.

2007: “Wind-whipped”, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM.

2006: “Self-Portraits”, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.

2006: “Introducing New Artists”, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.

Artist’s Statement:

I have most recently been working in the medium of monotypes. The cups are a whimsical, pop art homage to the time spent as the manager of a coffee shop. They are a play in texture and color.

Published Articles:

“Leighanna Light”, Albuquerque the Magazine, February, 2007, p. 144

“Shawn Turung”, Albuquerque the Magazine, December, 2006/January, 2007, p. 190

“Valerie Hollingsworth”, Albuquerque the Magazine, November, 2005, p.72

Satellite Coffee (Uptown) Featuring:
Anthony Iannini

Artist Bio:

Anthony Peter Iannini was born on April 7th, 1979 in Worcester, Massachusetts. During his early years, Anthony became interested in the sciences, drawing, writing, and computer programming.

In 1993, Iannini began attending Bishop Verot Catholic high school in Fort Myers, Florida. He graduated from Bishop Verot in 1997 and earned a scholarship to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In 2001, Anthony graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tulane with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Studies.

After a post-college European tour, Iannini moved to Los Angeles, where he began to paint. Shortly thereafter, Anthony moved back to New Orleans, where he was able to paint full-time.

In 2004, Anthony returned to Florida, living for a time in Tampa, and became a member of TampaArtist.com, founded by abstract painter Rich Frederick. Before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico in early 2007, Anthony traveled to Europe, spending time in London, Oxford and Amsterdam.

In late 2007, and early 2008 he married his wife, Kim, and had triplet boys.

Anthony is currently painting and exploring artistic opportunities in central New Mexico, primarily in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

Anthony is also an aspiring writer who has published several essays and a short story. He has written numerous unpublished academic essays, poems, short stories, books and is currently working on a few screenplays. He is currently editing various works with plans to publish in the future.

Artist Statement:

Anthony began painting seriously in Los Angeles in the summer of 2002. Since then, he has lived and shown artwork at various venues and galleries primarily in New Orleans (2003-04), Tampa (2004-07), and New Mexico (2007-Present). Anthony has lived in New Mexico since the beginning of 2007 and has shown in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. He is currently painting and living in Albuquerque, exploring artistic opportunities in the area. He shows and sells his artwork at various venues and also sells pieces over the internet, through this and other websites.

"My goal is to create unique works of color and form that cause an emotional response in the observer. My decision to begin painting was largely due to my frustration with language and the written word as a means of communicating. Like music, visual art is immediately experienced and the only interpretation required is completed almost instantly within the viewer. My past education in philosophy and my travels abroad have influenced much of my work. My artistic influences include Matisse, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Chagall, and Pollack. I tend to paint various abstracted ideas and objects with vivid colors, contrast, and, often, some level of linear constraint. I enjoy using extreme textures and high-gloss varnishes to richen colors and play with light from different angles. Texture adds a new dimension to paintings and preserves every stroke the artist makes."

Satellite Coffee (Harvard) Featuring:
Alexa Wheeler

Artist Bio:

Material culture fascinates me. From the items we hoard as personal objects that later define our life’s memories, to the objects that endure as the markers of historical periods and times, material culture is sewn into the fabric of our lives. So, I begin by telling a story about my relationships with certain objects, with things, and the relationship other people in my life have with these objects. Then, the dynamics that develop within the narrative may begin to tell a story between myself and the individual(s), and the universal interactions of human to human, and human to human-made. I am intrigued with how these chosen objects activate the senses– its age through smell, its life through surface treatment, its quality through color. These are the intense observations in miniscule moments of time that inspire my energy to interpret and respond.

This inspiration for my work has taken a shift in recent years from a rediscovery of my childhood through my own memories, to a revisiting of this time through the eyes of my offspring. It is impossible for me to deny the implications my works has now as being both an artist and a mother. In the last few years of my life, the fact that I am a woman has been so bluntly pointed out to me by myself, others, and through daily experiences that my former identity as resident tomboy has disappeared.

My work serves as an undeniable embracing of this womanhood. I experiment with methods of attaching as it relates to collage and mixed-media installation. Learning to sew – a natural progression in an investigation in attachment, has surfaced as a technique that finds a home in many of my pieces. I have taken the relationship I have between the conflicting feelings of being both male and female and translated them into my work subtly by representing the male as hardware and the female as the stitch.

Two-dimensional items are over, under, beside and on top of one another, interlocking in various and mixed ways becoming the warp and weft, the fabric of the work. Through my work I am playing with the idea of surface and the illusion of surface, both in traditional and digital techniques. Video is another way of exploring this illusion and understanding the passage of time as it happens. With installation, the senses and entire space can be activated – nostalgia begins immediately.

“In studying play, I have come to believe that it affords the best and most profitable way of studying humankind itself, both individuals and races. Play consists of what people do when they have food, shelter, and clothing, and are rested and free from worry, when the physical compulsions of life are removed temporarily and the spirit is free to search for it’s own satisfactions. Then [people] are at their best. The pursuit of food, shelter, clothing, and safety is in the mains the means to life; but these things are not the end for which life seems to exist. For this reason, I believe that [people] are better revealed by their play, or by the use they makes of leisure time, than by any other one index.” –Luther Halsey Gulick

In this vein, my work represents my studio practice and my belief that it is now also what I call my play and my labor. I celebrate life as a mother, and revisit my life as a child to rectify my future. Although some difficult stories may be revealed and represented, I try to convey my own personal play and the energy it creates.

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