ARTS INTERNATIONAL
2011 ART JURORS
Bernard Vetter
El Paso, Texas
Bernard Vetter is a native El Pasoan. A graduate of Texas Western College, he has been a
professional artist since 1972. His paintings are included in a number of private
collections, including the Favell Museum in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the Pabst Collection
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Miller Collection in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1994 his
work became part of the acquisition of the Huthsteiner Fine Arts Trust.
For over thirty years, Vetter has painted Southwestern and wildlife/sporting subjects,
including fly fishing and stream scenes. An accomplished watercolorist, he changed his
focus to oil painting ten years ago in the quest to explore new and challenging techniques,
and, as a result, he now paints exclusively in oils, although watercolor will always be
special to him. Over the years his style has evolved, becoming more impressionistic than
it was originally, in his effort to convey the emotional experience of a scene rather than
the exact details.
Vetter's current work focuses on
Southwest landscapes, primarily of West Texas,
southeastern Arizona, and New Mexico. His work is
included in the volume Contemporary Western Artists,
by Peggy and Harold Samuels, published by Southwest Art.
Albert Wong
El Paso, Texas
Albert Y. Wong (b.1947) is an American contemporary artist. He is a painter, an illustrator and a graphic designer. As a painter, Wong is noted for his works in the trompe l'oeil or "fool the eye" tradition that utilizes common mundane objects with a delicately subtle background of Chinese characters based on Buddhist wood block printed texts.
His medium is primarily watercolor although he also works in oil on canvas and draws on paper. His work received many awards including best-of-show at Watercolor USA (Springfield Art Museum, Missouri), LaGrange National in Georgia and the Long Beach Arts' Inspired Black and White Exhibition.
His work is in private and corporate collections in the U.S., Canada, Australia and China including the Chase Manhattan Bank, Coca-Cola, University of Kentucky, Rutgers University and Akron Art Museum. His work has been exhibited at the Akron Art Museum (OH), Evansville Museum of Art (IN), San Diego Art Institute, Butler Institute of American Art, Picker Art Gallery of the Dana Arts Center (NY), Illinois State Museum, Museo de Arte, Mexico and the Hong Kong Art Center.
He currently lives in El Paso, Texas with his family.
David
Schwindt graduated from Fort Lewis College in 1971 with a
major in art and minors in music and humanities and began
painting the incredibly diverse geographical areas of the
Southwest where he grew up. In 1999 David was one of 15
artists selected by The Grand Canyon Trust to raft the
Colorado River and paint the Grand Canyon for ten days.
Work from this trip was exhibited at the Forbes Galleries
in New York and San Francisco and was the centerpiece for
articles in American Artist and Art of the West magazines.
His article, “The Value Solution” was published in the
February 2003 issue of The Artist’s Magazine, and
reprinted in the November 2010 issue as "Value Judgments."
The December 2010 issue of The Artist’s Magazine features
his latest article, "Less is More." He is a member of the
Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, and in 2005 had two
paintings selected for the Top 100 Arts for the Parks. He
was a first place winner at the George Phippen Memorial
Art Show and won first place in oils three times at the
New Mexico State Fair Professional Fine Arts Exhibit. 
