Kathrine Pacheco Gauntt’s ‘La Luz.’ Courtesy image 

Kathrine Pacheco Gauntt’s ​‘Las Conchas.’ Courtesy image 

LIBRARY News:

Katherine Pacheco Gauntt, a painter who grew up in Los Alamos, will open an exhibit of her work this month at the Mesa Public Library Upstairs Gallery. There will be an opening reception to meet the artist 1-4:30 p.m., June 10.

Gauntt developed her love of nature in the canyons and mountains of Los Alamos, and it informs her work to this day.

“I see the wonderment of the world around me,” she said in describing her painting preferences. “Being outside, in nature, I am ideally able to conceive of and paint what excites me about what I am looking at, although it may also be messy, irritating and uncomfortable for me as I am painting and trying so hard to ‘capture the magic.’”

She often paints with a group that shares the philosophy of the value and importance of painting outdoors, the Plein Air Friends, who have a show at the Gutierrez Hubble House in Albuquerque’s South Valley. She will show paintings in all of the traditional media: watercolor, acrylic and oil.

Gauntt is installing her exhibit Saturday and Sunday, and expects to be finished and have the doors open Sunday. Mesa Public Library is at 2400 Central Ave. in Los Alamos.

For more information about Library exhibits, call Katy Korkos at 505.662.8247. To know more about Library events, visit the Events calendar on the Library website: www.losalamoslibrary.org or call 505.662.8253.

Kathrine Pacheco Gauntt’s ​‘Ballerina.’ Courtesy image