Winners Circle (2014)

An intimate reception celebrating the achievements of ArtNight: Carnival of Colors winners; held on Thursday, February 13, 2014 from 5-7pm @ SpringHill Suites Convention Center (2989 Paradise Rd).  It was a good reception with an impromptu Q & A session with the artists.  We also would like to THANK SpringHill Suites for their continued support and hosting the event.

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Roberta "Bert" Hornbeck
“To me art is about a happy and fun place in time.  When starting a new painting, I immerse myself in the moment and my subject. I study their eyes to see what they were thinking the moment the photograph was taking.  I want people to engage in my paintings and see what I see. Art should tell a story and that the story is to be told through the expression, pose and eyes”.

Rainer "RB" Bertram
"The art of woodcut reflects a most violent medium which employs knives, chisels, hammers and gouges.  It is a medium that seemingly had been lost with the Huns and Barbarians of the 15th and 16th centuries - my ancestors.  The agitated movements and visual entanglements lacking in sensitivity of balance, and a willful disregard for stylistic properties governed the designs created by those warriors-artists.  It is that Teutonic heritage then which I believe has led me to become a woodcut artist."