DENVER, CO. — REGISTER NOW, LIMITED SPACE – Join artists Neil Sherman, Diana Woods and myself for a live online event and see our latest paintings for the 2021 Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale. This conversation will be part of the show’s “Inside the Artist’s Studio” series, moderated by curator, Rose Frederick. Tuesday, December 8th, from 12-1 pm. Use this link to watch live or to see a recording afterwards: REGISTER HERE.
As part of the Coors Western Art Show, The Young Guns Art Show engages the next generation of art collectors aged 40 and under by recognizing emerging Western Artists and, through the National Western Scholarship Trust, raising money for 100 youth pursuing degrees in agriculture, rural medicine and veterinary medicine at institutions throughout Colorado and Wyoming. Your bid is appreciated. EXPLORE THE AUCTION HERE >>
So thrilled to find out and announce that both of my submissions to Small Works, Great Wonders 2020 at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum sold out on the opening evening of the exhibition and sale. I’m honored and excited to be associated with the museum in any way I can, but to be showing and selling work there is beyond my expectation and a thrill for me. My gratitude is deeply felt toward the museum for providing a space for me within their walls and to the collectors who have found value enough in my work to do...
This Saturday, October 24 – Bidding opens for the Albuquerque Museum’s annual ArtsThrive! in just a matter of days. It’s your opportunity to show your support for the museum while snagging some highly desirable art from over 100 participating artists. Including me! You can see my submissions to the event, here on Bidsquare. > While the artwork will be on display at the museum from October 25 thru December 6, for everyone’s safety and to maximize social distancing, the purchasing of these artworks is a little different this year. If you’d like to support the museum through the purchase of...
ArtsThrive: Art Exhibition & Benefit is an invitational exhibition hosted by the Albuquerque Museum Foundation and held at the Albuquerque Museum. It is my hope that you can join me between October 24 – December 6, 2020 during the scheduled exhibition. I am honored to be participating in this years event. An opening reception is pending the health and safety of our neighbors, friends, family, you and me during this unprecedented moment. Please feel free to join my email list to be notified as additional details become available.
The annual Small Works, Great Wonders sale event at The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum showcases more 100 of the nation’s finest artists, including many from the prestigious Prix de West. The 2020 event is scheduled for NOVEMBER 13, from 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM. I am thrilled to be participating this year. If it is at all possible I would love to meet you there. Please stay well and see to it that others around you stay well too. See you at The Cowboy!
Thrilled to have received the Curator’s Choice Award in this exciting new exhibition created by Western Gallery. Organized before social distancing, New Western Talent is a juried online exhibition highlighting up-and-coming 2-D artists focusing on landscape, cowboy, native and wildlife subjects, represented in styles varying from abstract to photorealistic and classic to contemporary. Artists were juried on a three-piece body of work. Please join me in celebration of all the artists who were juried into the show.
Honored to have had my artwork juried and featured in The New Mexico Museum of Art’s first online exhibition. In addition, my artwork was featured the New Mexico Magazine editorial designating the exhibition as one of “5 Thing To Do”. From New Mexico Magazine:On a piece that stood out: “The cowboy in the face mask [by landscape painter S.M Chavez]. I thought that was really interesting because it felt like a classic, old Western painting with this contemporary addition. It could almost be jarring, but also really intriguing.” — New Mexico Museum of Art Assistant Curator and exhibition curator, Jana Gottshalk.
We all need a little more art right now. Take care of yourself and others. I look forward to seeing you soon.
I am thrilled to be included in this exciting show at Acosta Strong Fine Art. Artist's featured include, Joseph Henry Sharp, Fritz Scholder, Gustave Baumann, Nicolai Fetchen, John Moyers, Bill Baker, Edward Gonzales, Jim Jennings and myself.
With another painting moving from the on-hold position to the sold position, this weekends opening is considered sold out. I could not be more happy or humbled. Current inventory of my work at Acosta-Strong is obviously low right now, but there are plenty of other artists who’s work you need to get a hold of. Summer is just around the corner and things are about to move pretty fast. Thank you to all who attended and an extra special thank you to collectors. Time to get to work.
Thank you Carlos, everyone associated with Acosta-Strong Fine Art, guests to this weekend’s receptions and collectors old and new. Your support of the work is very meaningful to me and I sincerely appreciate your part in making the opening such a special event. — s.m. chavez
Here is a fun little article about a poster I recently designed for Santa Fe’s De Vargas Street House. Sean Michael Chavez often finds himself with a foot in two worlds. From his work as a fine art painter and as a graphic designer, he’s finding an appreciative audience everywhere he steps. At the Oldest House Indian Shop, Chavez’s Oldest House poster is a new favorite. The vintage-style image reflecting the traditional travel posters of the 1930s and ’40s was created by Chavez.. Read the full article here…
Please join me at Acosta-Strong Fine Art in Santa Fe Friday, April 19 for an opening concerning paintings by myself and Yvonne Mendez from 5 to 7pm. I look forward to seeing and meeting as many of you as I can.
I’m thrilled to announce, as of early January this year, I am being represented by Acosta-Strong Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I’m honored and grateful to Acosta-Strong, to be showing in the same gallery with notable contemporaries, some of the Taos Masters and Santa Fe Cinco Pintores. Acosta-Strong Fine Art is a wonderful mix of old and new. Visit online at www.acostastrong.com or at 640 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, NM.
Thrilled to have been invited to show a series of small paintings at City of Mud in Santa Fe, New Mexico this December. I’ll have nearly ten landscape paintings on display, some of which have been painted just for this show. Come and see the new work. Music and light refreshments will be provided by the gallery. Join in on the festivites on December first, from 1 to 5pm.
It was a nice surprise to have @westerngallery feature one of my landscape paintings on IG today. So cool to see my work next to some of the best painters in the western genre including (left to right on image below) Glenn Dean, William Herbert Dunton, William Victor Higgins, Georgia O’Keeffe, Dennis Blagg, Tucker Smith, (my painting lower left), Wilson Hurley, Zhaoming Wu and others.
It is my pleasure to announce that I have a couple of paintings in the Ghostwolf 2018 WILD! exhibition opening tomorrow May 19. A portion of this show’s proceeds go to local charities focused on public education and the preservation of one of our most precious and beloved resources-our wildlife!. Come say “Hi” and join the gallery for a fun-filled day including art, poetry, and visits from wild educational animals from local rescues.
Last night I dreamed I was a mostly naked Indian weraring nothing but a pair of white Adidas shoes. My hair was long and straight as a board. It tickled my butt cheeks as I walked around like everything was normal. Today, I am wearing those same white tennis shoes in honor of the naked Indian that walks inside me.
The more I learn about how to paint, the more I find I need to forget about how to paint.
Friends, you are invited to celebrate Warren Fine Art’s anniversary with a reception featuring landscape paintings by yours truly. Please join me and many of the other talented artists at Warren Fine Art for hors d’ oeuvres, sparkling wine, door prizes and more in Old Town, Albuquerque this Friday, July 7th from 5pm to 8pm. I would love to see you there!
These paintings plus others stacked up and ready for delivery for the opening September 9 at Sara Smith Contemporary, Corrales, New Mexico.
