Nopalitos Galeria Presents:
Icons & Visions – Arnold Puentes
November 29th – December 28th, 2019

Arnold Puentes

In Icons and Visions, the artists believe that by challenging our perceptions, new truths begin to emerge allowing ourselves to reflect on the past without prejudice, contemplate the present without bias, and perhaps project the future with greater optimism.

Co-hosts: Susan Austin and Iris Puentes

Facilitator: David Chavez


Art Ramble
Date:      Friday, November 29th, 2019
Time:      5 p.m. until 8 p.m.


Artists Reception
Date:      Saturday, November 30th, 2019
Time:      4 p.m. until 8 p.m.


About The Artist

Arnold Puentes was born in Silver City, New Mexico and spent his earliest childhood years in the nearby mining town of Santa Rita. He attended schools in Santa Ana, California and Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was first exposed to art at an early age by his father, and he credits his first art teacher and mentor in middle school for developing his passion for creating art. Arnold began his formal art training in high school. Awarded a Kiwanis scholarship to New Mexico State University, he undertook a painting major under the instruction of painter and muralist Ken Barrick, sculptor Ed Vega, and designer/painter Dr. Trini Lopez. In 1980 he traveled to Mexico City with the aid of a research grant to study methods, materials, and techniques of mural painting. He graduated from NMSU with a BFA in Painting in May 1981 and relocated to Albuquerque, and has since painted and produced several community/civic murals. His work has been shown at multiple art shows and at the Arizona Latino Art & Cultural Center (ALACC). The art is influenced by the great Mexican muralists and he sees it as primarily cultural but always “challenging the conventional”.

Nopalitos Galeria Presents:
Icons & Visions – John Dick-Peddie
November 29th – December 28th, 2019

John-Dick-Peddie

In Icons and Visions, the artists believe that by challenging our perceptions, new truths begin to emerge allowing ourselves to reflect on the past without prejudice, contemplate the present without bias, and perhaps project the future with greater optimism.

Co-hosts: Susan Austin and Iris Puentes

Facilitator: David Chavez


Art Ramble
Date:      Friday, November 29th, 2019
Time:      5 p.m. until 8 p.m.


Artists Reception
Date:      Saturday, November 30th, 2019
Time:      4 p.m. until 8 p.m.


About The Artist

John Dick-Peddie was raised in Las Cruces and became friends with Arnold at Mayfield High School and college years at NMSU. As is life, after receiving their degrees, their paths went different directions both professionally and geographically. Their friendship however remained intact to date. John was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2012. He has since started incorporating some of the challenges experienced by the disease into his art in an attempt to give the viewer a better feel on how the disease affects mind, body, and spirit. In 2014 John started experimenting with the addition of neon colors added to the painting. The attempt is to create a painting within a painting. He has coined the procedure as the “J.D.P. technique it appears to be quite unique.