Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/06/2016
5:30 pm
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Location
Light Hall Auditorium
1000 W. College Avenue
- Silver City, NM
Edwina and Charles Milner Women in the Arts
Tina Mion
An American contemporary artist, working in oil paint and pastels.
5:30 pm | Meet Tina Mion — Artist Reception on Light Hall Patio
6:30 pm | Lecture in Light Hall Auditorium
FREE Event. Open to the public.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tina Mion is primarily a self-taught artist with a long celebrated history of art and travel. In 1996 she completed All The Presidents, and the first Object drawings which opened in LA and traveled for years to various Presidential libraries and other museums.
To celebrate finishing that series, she headed to Africa, returning home with elephant stories. Her husband, Allan met her at the airport with a story of his own.
He had purchased La Posada, the last great Fred Harvey hotel and architect Mary Colter’s masterpiece: an 80,000-square-foot Spanish hacienda in the small desert town of Winslow, Arizona. Together they restored the hotel, which has also become Tina’s home and studio. There she completed Ladies First, a large series of Object paintings and pastels, and the great 18-foot triptychs: Red, White and Blue, and A New Year’s Party in Purgatory for Suicides.
“On the Edge”
“ On the Edge” is a visual presentation by Tina Mion about Momento Mori art, growing up in a funeral parlor, remembering loved ones, White House mysteries, Fred Harvey Houses, why butlers murder people and the importance of keeping your eyes peeled.
Tina Mion has exhibited three times at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and is in collections all over the country including the Smithsonian, The Nelson Atkins museum, and the Albrecht- Kemper Museum. She has given talks all over the country including the Phoenix art Museum, University of Chicago and the LACMA.
Tina and her husband Allan Affeldt bought and restored the historic Fred Harvey/Mary Colter Hotel La Posada in Winslow Arizona and recently the Plaza and the Castaneda historic hotels in Las Vegas New Mexico.