The Juried Gallery is a gallery of specialized art and includes emerging artists. This gallery includes the work of Claudia McKinney, AlbertoVazquez, Susana Leff , Jacqueline Dunn, Wendy Gsell, Jun Zhang,
The Museum’s Mission
THE UNITY OF THE ARTS AND SPECIALIZED ART FIELDS
With the emergence of new media the world of art has changed. Not only have fields like painting included new materials, new media, and multimedia work but the field of photography has made the art world an emerging and changing visual experience. Immersion into panoramic exhibitions of walls of rooms moving with the energy of a painting have filled museums and has changed concepts of exhibitions. The use of multimedia work resulted in new horizons and boundaries shifting between visual art fields such as in photography, publications, television, performance, stage craft, and film. Social media changes and opportunities contributed to change and the virtual museum evolved within momentum of change such as the dawn coming up like thunder in a “flash mob” performance embracing all of life.
Claudia McKinney
Claudia McKinney is an American, English-speaking artist of Mexican-Italian heritage. She is a professional digital artist/photographer who lives in Southern California. Her specialization is working with publishers. Her work shows her rare talents in applications of digital art which she expertly implements to render rare fine art using digital photographic media in artwork for copyright type protected contract-based projects (also termed as licensed art.) Her specialized image production is also found on book covers in the United States and worldwide. Claudia McKinney’s personal journey into art and her specialization of digital photographic renderings came after a period of rare health issues which had resulted in serious visual impairment which she says was diagnosed as blindness. Fortunately, the temporary impairment was fully resolved. Full normal vision returned, by means of a very intensely miraculous health experience, which provided return to health and return to normal vision. McKinney’s personal mission in visual artwork is described with dedication which extends into her lived experiences of residing on a small farm with her family, animals and with immersion into rural beauty with all elements of life working together for her to facilitate her individualized creation of “meaningful pieces of art that will hopefully inspire you,……….certain finished artworks act much like a written journal.……depicting what I was thinking, feeling, or praying about. She communicates Joys, sorrows, expectations – in every piece of my work.
Exhibits: (include)
Random House Publishing house
Llewellyn Publishing house
Simon & Schuster Publishing house
Savoy Palace Gallery in Italia
Art Museums International Virtual Museum of Fine Art
Alberto Vazquez
Alberto Vazquez is a Mexican artist, musician and actor residing in Mexico who is multilingual in Spanish and English. He is an award-winning, best-selling icon of Mexican music known primarily for his legendary rancheras and corridos, he has also recorded pop, rock, disco, and easy listening numbers among the hundreds in his discography. His recordings have hit the charts dozens of times. Some of his hit singles include “Ausente,” “Olvidalo,” “Pecador,” and “Rogaciano.” He has also written songs with José Alfredo Jiménez, including “Ella” and “El Jinete.”
Born in 1940, he began singing at the age of six, inspired by the great ranchera singers of the twenties and thirties. He attended the prestigious arts academy of San Carlos as well as the Esmerelda, where he studied music and painting. His musical activities included singing at festivals. At one contest, at age17, (sponsored by Radiolandia at the Teatro Alameda) he sang “Sixteen Tons” and “Las Hojas Muertas” and won. His rare talents extended to boxing and he won a Golden Gloves title when he was18.
While he was supposed to be attending college, Vazquez began making a name for himself working in clubs in Mexico City. At 21, he secured headline engagements at both the legendary Cadillac and Afro night spots and began his recording career. Working with Memo Acosta Segura as his artistic director and producer, he cut the single “El Pecador.” The record’s unexpected success made him an overnight sensation. He followed it with the smash “Perdóname Mi Vida.” Vazquez went outside the mainstream and cut Spanish versions of tunes originally recorded by Pat Boone (“Happiness Came”) and John Gary(“Forget It”) that scored on the Mexican charts and the hits did not stop. Recording for a wide variety of labels, from Musart to Melody International to Epic, each album he released between 1962s Ritmos Juveniles and 1994s Cosas De charted in Mexico and South America, and sold in the millions which enabled him to perform all over the globe.
Vazquez was also an actor. Beginning with a role in the 1962 film A Ritmo de Twist, he began a concurrent career that resulted in more than 25 films. He had roles in La Edad de la Violencia in 1964, Me Quiero Casa (1967), Faltas a la Moral (1970) Caín, Abel y el Otro (1971), and Amor a Navaja Libre (1982). He also made dozens of appearances on television including recurring roles in three telenovelas between 1973 and 2001.
Vazquez received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Latin Grammys in 2006. He continues to perform and mentor younger artists. His visual creative combined arts have emerged with the intensity and strength of his other successes and Vazquez has made a rare integration of the creative arts as his social contribution to international culture in the arts.
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Susana Leff
The artist Susana Leff was born in Mexico and she is an established linguist speaking multiple languages fluently: Spanish, English, French and Italian. She additional understands Portuguese and speaks some Russian. The artist resides in both Mexico and California. Her focus of work as an emerging visual artist is as a photographic artist working in a form of digital improvisational photographic media. This Artist’s imagery is in the 23-24 Special Exhibition of Fine Art in Art Museums International.
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Leff’s insightful work shows the inner life of a person.
Susie Leff travels from the USA to Mexico and various countries including France and Japan building her life experience as an artist and developing this museum gallery.
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Jacqueline Dunn
The emerging artist Jacqueline Dunn who is a British English speaking Artist has been a contributor to magazine work internationally. Additionally, one of her continuous connections which she shares positively has been with “Arttour Magazine.” What is of special interest in her creative work, which has been growing in color and concept, is that it contains a depth which as an emerging artist focuses on abstract forms.
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Depth in conceptual form
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Wendy Gsell
As an emerging artist Wendy Gsell has accomplished diversity in imaging using digital technology. Her work shows color and use of the medium in color describing form.
Jun Zhang
Jun Zhang is an emerging artist of exceptional talents.
Born in Beijing, China, fluent in multiple languages of Chinese and English, the artist graduated from Beijing Film Academy in Film Sound Recording and then fell in love with photograph, “…. fascinated by various art styles from realism, surrealism, minimalism to abstraction. As long as it touches the soul and whispers an insightful or inspiring feeling and emotional essence in depth, I’ll take it.“
The artist statement clearly guides the work created in this museum gallery.