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DOÑA ANA ARTS COUNCIL

Artists Maxwell, Yost highlight Arts Council’s August show

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The Doña Ana Arts Council (DAAC) will feature the work of Las Cruces artists Paul Maxwell and Phil Yost in August at the DAAC Arts & Cultural Center gallery, 840 Calle de Mercado in Bulletin Plaza. Both artists bring many years of experience, extensive travel and a keen eye for detail to this exhibit.

Maxwell paints full-time in his Santa Teresa studio, focusing on landscapes and local subjects, using acrylic paints.

The show will be exhibited Monday, Aug. 3-Friday, Aug. 29. DAAC is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and will have extended gallery hours noon-7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8.

“For this new exhibit, I’m exploring different border crossings and immigration issues,” Maxwell said. “One of my paintings, ‘Twenty-Three Stars over El Paso,’ relates to the Aug. 3 massacre at the Wal-Mart in El Paso in 2019.” 

Paul traveled extensively in and around Florence, Italy, in 2013-14, where he studied at the Academe de Arte, worked with several Italian artists and produced paintings based on his travels. Maxwell continues to explore different media and themes often influenced by the Southwest desert and life on the border. 

Yost took up painting watercolors in 1996 and soon excelled. He was accepted to his first juried exhibition in the New Mexico Watercolor Society (NMWS) show in 2002, earning the award of excellence.

“I like the outdoors and I like old things,” Yost said. “I like to paint old buildings, especially old adobe churches, bottles, cars and other things I find outdoors. I’m a scientist, and I guess I bring that to my work. Getting detail and exactness is important to me.”

Yost has exhibited in numerous juried shows, including NMWS, Arts for the Parks, the Southwest Federation of Watercolor Societies, Masterworks of New Mexico and the International Art Show in El Paso.

In 2005, his work based on the Missouri River was selected to be featured in three venues in Montana commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark trek of 1803-06.

Contact DAAC at 575-523-6403. Visit www.daarts.org.

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