Paul Pletka: Imagined Wests jewelry Jack Bailey

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Paul Pletka: Imagined Wests jewelry Jack BaileyBorn in San Diego in 1946 and raised in the American Southwest, painter Paul Pletka has created a body of work that owes much to the West of his childhood, and more to the West of his imagination. Infused with an operatic sense of theater and drama, his paintings conjure scenes from the cultures, history, and religions of the American West and Mexicodiffused, as Pletka writes, through the lens of personal experiences, dreams, research, and ancestral