SAALM Invitatonal Exhibition

The Art League’s Invitational Exhibit honors artists whose body of work is top-tier and who have been nominated for the Artist of the Year. This year’s honorees are Nancy Gerfers, Richard Mogas, and Stefani Job Spears.
NANCY GERFERS
I believe Art should be valued as a process to restore the soul, shared with others for their mental
health, and ultimately make the world a more beautiful place. I continue to share my experience and
enthusiasm for art through classes and demonstrations. It gives me great joy to put people at ease to
try something they think they can’t do and prove them wrong. Unlike children, adults become so
uptight about creating a product that “looks good or right” instead of embracing a process that can both
challenge and delight.

RICHARD MOGAS
Having made art in various forms and materials for over 50 years, in the past 30 years or more, I have worked in a continuing series of landscapes that encompass journeys and events in my life. These art expressions find their way to wood panels or canvases that establish visual episodes from my experiences and travels in which many of my life’s thoughts are mentally recorded and emerge in the work.
These abstract landscapes are a combination of my painterly process using primarily acrylic paint combined with the pursuit of color
through the ready made materials of tape, paper and vinyl. As a compliment to the painting medium, I lean into the facile and expansive palette of color choices and textures these materials bring to the work. Other than those personal influences to the work, the pieces are mostly driven by the rigor of the traditional vocabulary of composition, proportion, scale, texture and color.

STEFANI JOB SPEARS
Stefani Job Spears holds a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She has been teaching Visual Arts throughout the state for thirty years.
As an artist-in-residence for the Texas Commission on the Arts, Spears developed curriculum and fine art standards for public schools. In addition, Spears has taught Art, developed events and programs for the Southwest School of Art and Saint Mary’s Hall. Her innovative art works frequently cross media boundaries, combining handmade paper, printmaking, oils and watercolors that reflect her love of nature and landscapes.