Monica Horn Art Gallery
Monica Horn
Monica began volunteering at Vintage Theatre in 2010 following her retirement from a 26-year career in aviation. During the next 10 years, she was active in Technical Production at Vintage, helping build many sets as a scenic carpenter, assisting with general building maintenance and working backstage for several shows. In addition to her Technical Production contributions at Vintage, she served on Vintage Board of Directors for 4 years.
Outside of Vintage, she has been involved in audio/video production at her church and has crewed on shows for public access television. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing the Colorado’s mountains, and remodeling and decorating her Arvada home. Monica is grateful for all the wonderful people she has met and the good times she has shared with Vintage Theatre.
MONICA HORN GALLERY
Featured Artist: Rodney Buxton
About the Artist…
As a Baby Boomer, Rodney's early memories of family vacations to national parks consisted of many long hours driving to the park, getting out of the car for ten minutes to ‘view’ one site in the park, and then being herded back into the car for another long drive to next destination. Consequently, those early memories were shaped more by the vivid postcards of the period that became an index of having ‘visited’ a national park, rather than the park itself. Over the years, those distant memories have lingered, fueled, in part, by further exposure to photographs by John Muir and Ansel Adams and the paintings of Claude Monet, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keefe, Mark Rothko, widescreen technicolor films of the 1950s and the poster artists of the WPA, in addition to those initial images from the postcards. It is the memories and influences that now shape his approach to creating art about national parks, monuments and forests.
As an award winning artist, he has been capturing photographic images of his travels to U.S. national parks and monuments for the past fifteen years and creating photo-illustrations of those images. This interest led to the creation of his business On and Off the Road: Creative Images by Rodney Buxton. He has expanded on many of the more advanced techniques in Adobe Photoshop to create original digital photo-illustrations for expressionistic and dreamlike purposes to create his vision of these national parks. What previously had been strict photographs are now photo-illustrations, painterly images growing out of his emotional reactions to travel sites that are transformed into vivid memory images.
