Exhibit: Sandstone, Rivers and Seas March 6, 2008

Award-winning Santa Fe artist and teacher Jakki Kouffman will exhibit brightly colored, gestural landscape paintings in Sandstone, Rivers and Sea at the Las Cruces Museum of Art from Friday, March 7 Saturday, April 5. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Friday, March 7 from 5 7 pm.

The exhibit features recent works in acrylic with imagery drawn from nature, memory and the imagination. Kouffman has shown her work across the country and won awards in many venues. Her painting, Cholla Blossoms, River Below, was recently installed at the Mesilla Community Center through New Mexico Arts, Art in Public Places.

Kouffman was elected a Master Pastellist with the Pastel Society of America in 1992. She has had solo exhibits at the Wichita Museum, the Hutchinson Museum and the Juneau-Douglas City Museum. Her work appears in several books, including The Artist and the American Landscape by John Driscoll and Arnold Skolnick, Painting Alaska by Kes Woodward, and Messages from Alaska, published by the M.J. Murdock Foundation.

A native of Boston, Kouffman resides in Santa Fe. A graduate of Brandeis University, she was awarded a Sachar International Fellowship to study in Pietrasanta, Italy, and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York. Kouffman has taught workshops around the country for more than 20 years. She presently teaches at Santa Fe Community College Continuing Education.

The Las Cruces Museum of Art is located at 501 N. Main St. in the downtown mall. It is accessible and free to the public. For more information about Museum exhibits, programs or Studio art classes, call 575-541-2137 or visit the website http://museums.las-cruces.org.

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