Kevin McDermott Gallery Taos Artist - Award Winning Works Taos, Pueblo, and Southwest Art Originals, by Kevin McDermott |
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Taos Artist Kevin McDermott has made intense studies of the Acoma tribe and its culture and tradition. Ancient Acoma pottery is painted to scale and in exact detail -- an accurate historical reproduction of their early civilization. McDermott first mastered realism through his background in engineering, drafting, and technical drawing. This formal education combined with his innate creativity and a passion for color without sacrificing authenticity set the stage for his unique historical depiction of ancient cultures. His masterful fluidity of light and movement creates a magnificent illusion of floating in space, but the art of Kevin McDermott is is actually photographic realism when viewed in close proximity or from several feet. McDermott's Originals are currently very affordable and represent an exceptional investment. According to HMS Galleries, his work will soon be commanding much higher prices. To view McDermott's Ancient Pottery click on the links below. Taos Artist Kevin McDermott is a unique Southwest artist of the 21st Century. His works, contemporary in appearance because of his floating design concept, are genuinely eclectic in that they combine the old and the new. Each piece, hand painted and created through his proprietary multi-media technique, is a signed original of his historical depiction of a bygone era. "My idea at that point," he said, "is to reintroduce to the world, through my paintings, the beautiful historic and prehistoric ceramics of the southwest." The historic pots that Kevin is now painting are from Acoma, Zia,
Zuni, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, San Ildefonso of New Mexico and
Hopi in Arizona. Each of these pueblos had designs so different
from each other, a practice still followed today, that the variety provides
the artist with plenty of work for the future
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