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Bruce A. Gómez was born in Denver, Colorado in 1957 and was educated at Colorado
State University and the University of Colorado at
Denver, where he received a degree in Political Science as well as a degree in Romance Languages.
The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
has represented Bruce since 1985.
He has been working in pastels for thirty-nine years, full-time for the past twenty-nine. Entirely self-taught,
Bruce works exclusively in
that medium on cold-pressed watercolour paper. In addition, he has taught for the last twenty years
at the Ah Haa School in Telluride,
CO, where he has been one of the school’s highest rated instructors for years. He has also had
the opportunity to teach workshops in
Sedona, AZ, Moab, UT, London, England, and Cortona, Italy. He is currently a regular instructor at the
Abend Gallery of Fine Art in
Denver.
Bruce has participated in more shows than he can recall and his work has been featured in The Artist
Magazine, Art and Antiques, and
in Southwest Art Magazine several times where he was noted as an Artist to Watch Over $5,000.
He has appeared in numerous Pastel Invitational shows as well as Plein Air Invitationals including The
Denver Golden Triangle
Invitational, and The Sedona Plein Air Festival, in which he won The Collector’s Choice Award,
The Artists Choice Award, and received
one of five Merit Awards in 2011 and the Merit Awards in 2012.
Bruce has also produced the artwork for numerous festivals and events including The MAAD poster Detroit
1998, The Telluride Jazz
Festival, The Telluride Chamber Music Festival, The Sheep Mountain Alliance, and many others. He has
contributed his work to numerous
fundraisers and benefits including fundraisers for The Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, The Telluride
AIDS benefit, The Ah Haa Art
Auction, The Alzheimer’s Foundation, KRMA Art Auction, and The American Cancer Society.
His extensive travels range from Aspen and Telluride, New Mexico and Arizona, Wyoming and Montana, up
to Banff, and crossing the
Pond to Europe; he has painted across London, Amsterdam, Paris, Provence, Florence, and Rome.
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EDUCATION
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1979
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BA, University of Colorado, Denver
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SELECTED SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS
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Pastel Society of America, Annual Juried Competition, National Arts Club, New York
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2013
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The Other Side of Bruce Gomez, telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO
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2005
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One-Man Exhibition, Telluride Mountain Gallery, Telluride, Colorado
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1996-2002
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Channel Six Anniversary Collection, Denver, Colorado
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2001
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Into the San Juans Invitational, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
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1998-1999
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Pastel Society of America, Annual Juried Competition, National Arts Club,
New York
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1995-1996
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Boetcher Concert Hall, Denver
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1995
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Telluride Pastel Invitational
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1991
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US Embassy, Paris, France
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Rocky Mountain National Park 75th Anniversary Show
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
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Ambassador to Iceland
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Colorado National Bank
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Echostar
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Ernst and Young
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Federal Reserve Bank
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First Fidelity - Boston
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Holland and Hart
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Invesco
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Kaiser Permanente
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KMGH Television, Denver
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KRMA Television, Denver
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Porter Memorial Hospital
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Qwest Communications
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Security Pacific
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St. Luke's Presbyterian Hospital
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Texaco
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Time - Warner
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Transamerica
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SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
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Art & Antiques
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Southwest Art Magazine
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The Artist Magazine
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Telluride Style Magazine
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1990 & 2002
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Telluride Jazz Festival poster
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2001
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Denver’s Channel Six poster
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1998
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MADD poster
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1990
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Telluride Gallery of Fine Art poster
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Bruce has been working in pastel full-time for the last twenty-nine years and has
been teaching
workshops for the past fifteen. His artistic influences range from Paleolithic art up to Alfred
Sisley,
Maxfield Parrish, Juan Gris, and Gustav Klimt. He is singularly fortunate enough to travel to and paint
in such wonderful places as Telluride, Paris, Rome, and Moab. He goes out and looks to capture
that
one unique and spectacular moment of life, whether in the mountains, in an urban setting, possibly
slogging through a deluge, snowshoeing in -10°F, or painting plein air in 101°F. In
spite of all those
obstacles, he gets to distill it all down to that essential instance of striking allure and there you
have it.
“I pride myself in painting something that anyone can see themselves if they
hang around: no
exaggerations, no symbolism, and no implied metaphor.”
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