The Rever Gallery weclomes four distinctive artist in March. Join us to view the works of four notable artists, covering a wide range of medium and style.
JAYMI CROOK
Born in South Kennsington in London, raised in the States, Jaymi’s first involvement in the arts, began with his career as a dancer and choreographer. For more than twenty years, first as a performance artist than later as a creative artist, he worked in Europe, the Far East, and across the United States, in virtually every medium available to him. Highlights include Broadway’s A Chorus Line, Chess in the West End, The Academy Awards, and creating the choreography for Jim Carrey in Man on the Moon directed by Milos Forman.
It was during the latter stages of this period that Jaymi began to refine his approach to sketching, something he’d been doing since he was a little boy sitting on his Grandfather’s lap. For more than ten years now Jaymi has focused his energies in yet another creative expression, hair design. His diverse clientele has included a number of artists from the various Cirque du Soleil productions, five time world motorcycle champion Miguel DeHamil, and from time to time Barry Manilow.
Jaymi has said, “My work in the mediums I’ve experienced has exposed me to so much information, so much education, form, space, movement, light, color, texture, ironically, in the end I work in black and white or perhaps more accurately shades of gray.”
Jaymi currently lives and works in Las Vegas with his wife Jillian and their dog and cat Skye and Giggs. Visit JaymiCrookArt.com for more information.
BOGDAN “BOBO” HART
Bogdan “Bobo” Hart was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1959. He attended the Kiev Art College and completed his formal education at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Hart’s works are held in private collections throughout Europe and North America. Bobo’s work is born out of a philosophy that the works on the wall have a life. He uses mixed techniques to achieve relief and a sense of animation. He considers this philosophy to be the foundation of a new direction in pop art.
Bobo has performed as a clown of Cirque du Soleil’s aquatic, stage and aerial production “O” at Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada since 2003.
JODY SPENCE
Life is full of illusions.
Dramatic visions waiting to be captured in one single moment.
A moment that is expressed by the creativeness of the artist.
Jody Spence was born 24 September, 1962 in Glendale, California. At the age of ten, she moved with her family to Provo, Utah at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains. There, she developed a great love for the outdoors. Jody moved to the East Coast to pursue her career in the arts when she was 21 years old. Landing in New York and largely self-taught up to that point in her life, Jody enrolled in courses at the Art Students League in Manhattan and participated in several outdoor watercolor workshops. There she developed her talents and sharpened her watercolor skills. Jody’s work displays in galleries in the West; over forty of her pieces reside in private collections.
KARIN SWANSON
Born to an artistic family, and raised in Wichita, Kansas, in an artistic family, Karin K. Swanson, has been surrounded by art her whole life. Her father, Charles H. Sanderson, was a renowned artist throughout the Midwest. Her mother, Ruth E. Sanderson, was his business manager. Karin spent many hours watching her father paint in his studio at their home in Wichita, Kansas. She helped with many aspects of preparing paintings for shows, devoted endless hours helping prepare for art fairs and gallery shows that her father had throughout the United States and experiencing the many different art communities that her parents were involved in. She has been drawing, painting and experimenting in different artistic areas since she was a small child. Even selling small drawings she created from scraps of her father’s matt board at art fairs when she was eight and nine years old.
Though she did not start painting seriously until 1991, the seed was planted long before that and was just waiting to grow. It started when she returned to college at Wichita State University studying Art History. Sitting in the auditoriums listening to lectures and studying art history brought the artistic drive to the surface. Painting only for her own enjoyment, showing very few pieces to anyone (including her father) and experimenting with different mediums she came across the one that has brought her art to life. She is inspired by the likes of Williem de Kooning, the Impressionists, the Abstract Expressionists and with the use of color in Peter Max’s work. After showing her work to her father and receiving her first critique in 1992 from him, she realized that all those years of watching and learning had paid off. Using acrylic paint on canvas, she began to explore the medium, develop her talent and expression of color.
At this time painting is only a part of her life, but a constant expression of her love of color. Moving to Las Vegas in January of 2001, the exploration of her work has found new frontiers. Expressing the color of the desert sky and the fire of the mountains, along with her travels throughout the United States, has given her work the expression and freedom of using color to explore her own abstract expressionism. Visit Karin’s website at KarinSwanson.com.
First Thursday Artist Preview
March 5, 2008, 6-9pm
First Friday
March 6, 2008, 6-10pm
Regular Gallery Hours
Monday thru Friday, 9am-5pm
KATHERINE CHRISTENSEN
