Dancing Colors - A Celebration in Three Parts

Solomon Stone’s current exhibition, Dancing Colors - A Celebration in Three Parts, employs a vivid palette of colors and intuitive transformation of forms to create a heightened mood in each piece. His professional background in painting and advanced photography are equally evident in this colorful triptych of subjects, including Unique Rock Forms, a Magnificent Tree and Rose Portraits, each printed in vivid metallic ink on 20” x 36” archival canvases.

In 2018, 50 years after receiving a dual degree in Painting and Advanced Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, Stone completed a graduate level digital photography course at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, NM. Abandoning his beloved Nikon cameras, he embraced emerging technology and embarked on a new photographic journey. With a Samsung cellphone and a photo editing app, Roses become pools of lava, barren sandstone blooms with psychedelic lichen, and a black solar flare halos an enormous lapis monolith.

Rock Formations, a Red Cedar Tree, and Portraits of Roses represent three locations that are close to the artist’s home and heart. Rock Formations captures the massive stone structures scattered in the high desert landscape of the City of Rocks State Park in southern New Mexico. Stone’s backyard in Silver City, NM is home to the sprawling Red Cedar that looms over his kitchen window. The luscious Red, Yellow and Green Roses, posing so patiently for their portraits, fill the flowerbeds at his home on the Rio Grande in Truth or Consequences, NM.

Since relocating to New Mexico in 2010, Stone quickly became a respected contributor to the local art scene in Truth or Consequences, NM. A well received solo exhibition at the Rio Bravo Fine Arts Gallery took place in December 2018 through January 2019.

The artist is a member and frequent exhibitor at Grapes Gallery, 407 Main Street in downtown Truth or Consequences, NM, where Dancing Colors - A Celebration in Three Parts will be on display through April 30, 2023.

Grapes Gallery Hours: 12-5pm Daily
2nd Saturday Art Hop & Special Events
949-371-7691

The artist can be reached at solomonstone99@gmail.com

Exhibition Reviewed by Alice Wyatt, 2023