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Carrizozo Art Duo Hosted at Alamogordo's Eagle Ranch
by Greg Platt - Steppin' Out Staff
<center><table border=0 align=center width=434><tr width=434><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Eagle Ranch will feature the art of a talented husband and wife team, Susan and Scott Goewey of Carrizozo.</font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Susan-1_rug.jpg border=1 align=center width=215 height=323 vspace=5 alt="Susan is an exceptional fiber artist who has been practicing her craft of weaving tapestries, rugs and wall hangings for decades."><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Scott-1_pot.jpg width=215 height=323 border=1 align=center vspace=5 alt="Her husband Scott is a Grand-Master in the potter’s craft."></td></tr></table></center>Alamogordo, NM - Art lovers and visitors to Lincoln or Otero Counties and folks from Alamogordo, Carrizozo, Tularosa, Ruidoso or Las Cruces should make a note to plan to visit Eagle Pistachio Ranch’s Art Gallery and Show Room at 7288 Hwy 54/70 on the northern edge of Alamogordo during June. From June 1 – 30, Eagle Ranch will feature the art of a talented husband and wife team, Susan and Scott Goewey of Carrizozo. An artist’s reception will occur on June 13th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Eagle Ranch Gallery.
The Goeweys are a multi-talented couple…
<table border=0 align=right><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Susan applies the same level of dedication, detail and skill to her art whether she’s weaving, or painting on canvas to create lovely views of the landscapes and vistas of New Mexico.</font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Susan-2_Badland.jpg border=1 align=right vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="Susan applies the same level of dedication, detail and skill to her art whether she’s weaving, or painting on canvas to create lovely views of the landscapes and vistas of New Mexico."></td></tr></table>Susan, for example, is an exceptional fiber artist who has been practicing her craft of weaving tapestries, rugs and wall hangings for decades. Her hand-made creations are sophisticated, detailed, colorful and beautiful. In fact, the level of detail involved in Susan’s creations can be quite misleading. The first time we saw Susan’s work we wrongly assumed the colors had been painted on the fabric. Later we learned that’s not the way her art is created at all. Susan actually uses hand-spun yarns and applies only natural dyes in a hand-dying process to impart the perfect colors to each strand and layer before the weaving begins.
When you see one of Susan’s beautiful hand-crafted fiber murals in front of you, you’ll understand how complicated that process must be! Susan applies the same level of dedication, detail and skill to her art whether she’s weaving, or painting on canvas to create lovely views of the landscapes and vistas of New Mexico. She clearly loves what she does… and that love shines through in each artwork Susan creates. Drop in at Eagle Ranch during June. See for yourself what we mean.
<table border=0 align=left width=235><tr width=235><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>When one talks to Scott and examines his work, one begins to sense what it takes to be a master in a craft that had thousands of years of tradition, skill and history centuries before you were born.</font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Pot_and_Babies-1.jpg border=1 align=left vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="When one talks to Scott and examines his work, one begins to sense what it takes to be a master in a craft that had thousands of years of tradition, skill and history centuries before you were born."></td></tr></table>Meanwhile her husband Scott is a Grand-Master in the potter’s craft. In fact, when one talks to Goewey and examines his work, one begins to sense what it takes to be a master in a craft that had thousands of years of tradition, skill and history centuries before you were born. When one considers the legacy of his craft -- which was ancient in the days of the Pharaohs, one sees it’s Scott’s love and devotion to his art and his excitement about each project that leads him to keep creating pottery when less skilled or dedicated potters might have given up, retired, or gone on to something new.
<table border=0 align=right><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Each of Goewey’s creations is as individual as a fingerprint. Yet somehow each one seems to be a continuation of an ancient tradition or technique.</font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Scott_Pot-_Round_Spirals.jpg border=1 align=right vspace=5 hspace=5 alt=""></td></tr></table>It doesn’t hurt that every piece of his pottery is unique and lovely in ways that are hard to identify. Each of Goewey’s creations is as individual as a fingerprint. Yet somehow each one seems to be a continuation of an ancient tradition or technique. We know it makes no sense. Yet in some inexplicable way it is nonetheless true. There is some ‘je ne sais quoi” about Scott’s work that tells us it’s his as soon as we see it. It’s not the shape, nor the size, nor the style, nor the clay, nor the firing methods used that makes Goewey’s pottery so identifiable. Perhaps it’s knowing the artist that defines a piece as his work. We wondered if that might be the case. Perhaps it’s the skill of the potter that makes Goewey’s vast array of clay creations seem similar. Or, maybe Scott molds a tiny bit of his artistic soul into each of his creations before he fires them.
What we can say with certainty is one gets the impression with Scott’s art that his pots lack but a brief moment of divine exhalation before they’d stand up and start walking around on their own in the same way Adam did after God breathed life into him.
If you’re in the Tularosa / Alamogordo areas during June be sure to visit the Eagle Pistachio Ranch Gallery. But watch out for walking pots. God may have found time to drop by and breathe on them by then! Buy a pot, a wall hanging and a painting too. They’re works of art. You’ll be glad you did! Scott and Susan will appreciate it too.
Eagle Pistachio Ranch is owned and operated by Alamogordo entrepreneurs, Marianne and George Schweers. It is New Mexico's largest commercial pistachio producer. The gallery and tastefully done retail store are Marianne's projects. She is well known and respected as a supporter and promoter of the arts in Alamogordo. For more information about Eagle Ranch, visit them online at: www.EagleRanchPistachios.com (http://www.EagleRanchPistachios.com)
For directions, gallery hours or further details call Eagle Ranch at 1-800-432-0999.
by Greg Platt - Steppin' Out Staff
<center><table border=0 align=center width=434><tr width=434><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Eagle Ranch will feature the art of a talented husband and wife team, Susan and Scott Goewey of Carrizozo.</font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Susan-1_rug.jpg border=1 align=center width=215 height=323 vspace=5 alt="Susan is an exceptional fiber artist who has been practicing her craft of weaving tapestries, rugs and wall hangings for decades."><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Scott-1_pot.jpg width=215 height=323 border=1 align=center vspace=5 alt="Her husband Scott is a Grand-Master in the potter’s craft."></td></tr></table></center>Alamogordo, NM - Art lovers and visitors to Lincoln or Otero Counties and folks from Alamogordo, Carrizozo, Tularosa, Ruidoso or Las Cruces should make a note to plan to visit Eagle Pistachio Ranch’s Art Gallery and Show Room at 7288 Hwy 54/70 on the northern edge of Alamogordo during June. From June 1 – 30, Eagle Ranch will feature the art of a talented husband and wife team, Susan and Scott Goewey of Carrizozo. An artist’s reception will occur on June 13th from 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Eagle Ranch Gallery.
The Goeweys are a multi-talented couple…
<table border=0 align=right><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Susan applies the same level of dedication, detail and skill to her art whether she’s weaving, or painting on canvas to create lovely views of the landscapes and vistas of New Mexico.</font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Susan-2_Badland.jpg border=1 align=right vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="Susan applies the same level of dedication, detail and skill to her art whether she’s weaving, or painting on canvas to create lovely views of the landscapes and vistas of New Mexico."></td></tr></table>Susan, for example, is an exceptional fiber artist who has been practicing her craft of weaving tapestries, rugs and wall hangings for decades. Her hand-made creations are sophisticated, detailed, colorful and beautiful. In fact, the level of detail involved in Susan’s creations can be quite misleading. The first time we saw Susan’s work we wrongly assumed the colors had been painted on the fabric. Later we learned that’s not the way her art is created at all. Susan actually uses hand-spun yarns and applies only natural dyes in a hand-dying process to impart the perfect colors to each strand and layer before the weaving begins.
When you see one of Susan’s beautiful hand-crafted fiber murals in front of you, you’ll understand how complicated that process must be! Susan applies the same level of dedication, detail and skill to her art whether she’s weaving, or painting on canvas to create lovely views of the landscapes and vistas of New Mexico. She clearly loves what she does… and that love shines through in each artwork Susan creates. Drop in at Eagle Ranch during June. See for yourself what we mean.
<table border=0 align=left width=235><tr width=235><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>When one talks to Scott and examines his work, one begins to sense what it takes to be a master in a craft that had thousands of years of tradition, skill and history centuries before you were born.</font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Pot_and_Babies-1.jpg border=1 align=left vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="When one talks to Scott and examines his work, one begins to sense what it takes to be a master in a craft that had thousands of years of tradition, skill and history centuries before you were born."></td></tr></table>Meanwhile her husband Scott is a Grand-Master in the potter’s craft. In fact, when one talks to Goewey and examines his work, one begins to sense what it takes to be a master in a craft that had thousands of years of tradition, skill and history centuries before you were born. When one considers the legacy of his craft -- which was ancient in the days of the Pharaohs, one sees it’s Scott’s love and devotion to his art and his excitement about each project that leads him to keep creating pottery when less skilled or dedicated potters might have given up, retired, or gone on to something new.
<table border=0 align=right><tr><td><caption><font size=-1 face="Arial Narrow" color=#000000>Each of Goewey’s creations is as individual as a fingerprint. Yet somehow each one seems to be a continuation of an ancient tradition or technique.</font></caption><img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/Goewey_Scott_Pot-_Round_Spirals.jpg border=1 align=right vspace=5 hspace=5 alt=""></td></tr></table>It doesn’t hurt that every piece of his pottery is unique and lovely in ways that are hard to identify. Each of Goewey’s creations is as individual as a fingerprint. Yet somehow each one seems to be a continuation of an ancient tradition or technique. We know it makes no sense. Yet in some inexplicable way it is nonetheless true. There is some ‘je ne sais quoi” about Scott’s work that tells us it’s his as soon as we see it. It’s not the shape, nor the size, nor the style, nor the clay, nor the firing methods used that makes Goewey’s pottery so identifiable. Perhaps it’s knowing the artist that defines a piece as his work. We wondered if that might be the case. Perhaps it’s the skill of the potter that makes Goewey’s vast array of clay creations seem similar. Or, maybe Scott molds a tiny bit of his artistic soul into each of his creations before he fires them.
What we can say with certainty is one gets the impression with Scott’s art that his pots lack but a brief moment of divine exhalation before they’d stand up and start walking around on their own in the same way Adam did after God breathed life into him.
If you’re in the Tularosa / Alamogordo areas during June be sure to visit the Eagle Pistachio Ranch Gallery. But watch out for walking pots. God may have found time to drop by and breathe on them by then! Buy a pot, a wall hanging and a painting too. They’re works of art. You’ll be glad you did! Scott and Susan will appreciate it too.
Eagle Pistachio Ranch is owned and operated by Alamogordo entrepreneurs, Marianne and George Schweers. It is New Mexico's largest commercial pistachio producer. The gallery and tastefully done retail store are Marianne's projects. She is well known and respected as a supporter and promoter of the arts in Alamogordo. For more information about Eagle Ranch, visit them online at: www.EagleRanchPistachios.com (http://www.EagleRanchPistachios.com)
For directions, gallery hours or further details call Eagle Ranch at 1-800-432-0999.