June 2013 Newsletter
Weekly critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz
Plein Aire: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time.)
If you would like to receive the membership newsletter for contact information on Plein Air and other membership events, please refer to ‘contact page’ and become a member. ($35 yearly)
Opportunities to exhibit: Santa Cruz Art League presents
All Those Figures….A National Exhibit
Juror: Susan Hillhouse Leask-Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, Museum of Art and History,Santa Cruz, CA
$1,000 in Awards
August 17 – September 15
Reception: August 24, 3-5pm
Download Prospectus & Entry at: http://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/
Deadline: Jpeg & Prospectus deadline Friday, June 14, 2013, 11:59pm
Old Monterey Fine Art Festival – September 21-22, 2013 – Monterey, California
OPEN DATE: 2/20/2013-DEADLINE: 7/19/2013
Jury Fee: $25.00- Event Dates: 9/21/2013 – 9/22/2013
Member News:
Don McPherson’s watercolors will be on display at the Santa Cruz Government Center June 3- August 15. He will also have ongoing exhibits at Print Smith in Aptos and the Old Post Office Gallery in Moss Landing.
Lee Taiz is exhibiting watercolors at Nova Care in Santa Cruz through July
Watercolor Class at the Art League: Linda Lord, instructor:
This class is geared for all levels. The main objective is to improve your skills, while having fun. Guided projects are a portion of each class session. Also covered areas are: How not to make mud, mixing greens that sing, and what makes a good composition. Bring your materials, ready to paint, and a sense of humor. Instructor Linda Lord is a self-trained artist and illustrator with over 16 years teaching experience in her studio and via the SC Watercolor Society.
Level: All
Offered: 6 Thurs. starting July 11
Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm
Fee: $145 / $125 Members
Exhibits around town:
Venture up to Bonny Doon for the third annual DoonArt Open Studios Tour the last weekend in July, Sat. July 27 and Sun. July 28 from 11am until 6 pm. There will be about 23 artists of various mediums showing their work in the hidden studios of Bonny Doon. Admisssion is free to all studios.
Santa Cruz Art League : 83rd. Statewide Landscape Exhibit June 1- June 30
Lecture: Michael Zakian – juror Light and Space in California Landscape Painting Friday, June 7 7PM $12 / $15 register
All Those Figures…August 17 – September 15-Prospectus: http://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/ Deadline: June 14, 201
LECTURES at the LEAGUE: Celebrating Contrast, Black & White by George Rivera. Friday, July 12, 7pm: $15 / $12 Members
Let’s Look at Art by Susan Hillhouse Leask, Friday, August 23, 7pm: $7 / $5 Members
Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:
Filoli: (86 Canada Road, Woodside):
Tuesday, April 16 through Sunday, June 16
Botanical Art Exhibit
This year we celebrate our 15th Annual Botanical Art Exhibit. This beautiful exhibit has long been an essential part of the Filoli Botanical Art Program’s mission to interpret and preserve this historically significant art form. Filoli has been a leader in the renewal of this art form, which combines the observational skills of the scientist and the sensibility of the artist. Part of our commitment is to sponsor an annual nation–wide juried exhibition to showcase the best of botanical art. Artworks selected this year will be displayed in the Visitor and Education Center while select pieces from our three major florilegia collections: the Filoli, the Banks’ and the Highgrove, will be displayed in the historic house.
Asian Art Museum: June 28- Sept. 22, 2013
In the Moment: Japanese Art from the Larry Ellison Collection will introduce 66 exceptional artworks spanning 1,100 years.
The exhibition explores the dynamic nature of art selection and display in traditional Japanese settings, where artworks are often temporarily presented in response to a special occasion or to reflect the change of seasons. In the Moment also considers Mr. Ellison’s active involvement in displaying art in his Japanese-style home, shedding light on his appreciation for Japan’s art and culture.
Included in the exhibition are significant works by noted artists of the Momoyama (1573–1615) and Edo (1615–1868) periods along with other important examples of religious art, lacquer, woodwork, and metalwork. Highlights include a 13th–14th century wooden sculpture of Shotoku Taishi; six-panel folding screens dating to the 17th century by Kano Sansetsu; and 18th century paintings by acclaimed masters Maruyama Okyo and Ito Jakuchu.
“This exhibition offers a rare glimpse of an extraordinary collection,” said Jay Xu, director of the Asian Art Museum. “We aim to present it in a fresh and original way that explores traditional Japanese principles governing the relationship of art to our surroundings and social relationships.”
Legion of Honor:
Artful Animals, Part 2
April 30, 2013 – October 13, 2013
Since the dawn of time, human beings have been fascinated with the animal world. Depictions of animals are some of the earliest known artistic efforts, dating back to the Paleolithic Era. And this interest has never abated. From sustenance to companionship, animals play a variety of roles in our lives and inspire a range of emotions—fear, love, awe—as well as a host of symbolic associations.
This exhibition draws from the vast resources of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts to produce a compelling portrait of the animal world, represented in a wide array of cultures, artistic styles, and media, from about AD 1500 to the present. Some of the artists included in this exhibition have drawn their subjects from life, depicting the roles they play in our everyday experience, while others have used animals with symbolic intent or have anthropomorphized them to humorous, playful, or even unsettling ends.
The second installment of Artful Animals features clawed creatures alongside lively critters of the sea and sky.
Impressionists on the Water
June 1, 2013 – October 13, 2013
Coinciding with San Francisco’s hosting of the America’s Cup races this summer, another side of nautical life is revealed by more than 80 remarkable paintings and works on paper by Impressionists such as Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro and Post-Impressionists such as Maurice Denis and Paul Signac—artists whose breathtaking artistry reflects their own deep understanding of pleasure boating and competition.
Paintings on loan from prestigious international collections, including the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and private collections will be joined by paintings and works on paper from the Fine Arts Museums’ own holdings.
Guest curators Christopher Lloyd, former keeper of Queen Elizabeth II’s collection; Phillip Dennis Cate, former director of the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University; and renowned marine historian Daniel Charles will illuminate the personal interactions of leading French artists with yachting and, more broadly, underscore the important role that access to the sea and extensive inland waterways played in the development of the art, culture, and commerce of France.
Examination of the Impressionists’ engagement with boating as both pastime and artistic subject is at the heart of the exhibition. In the countryside west of Paris new patterns of life, including the idea of middle-class leisure, reflected the social and economic energies of an emerging modern world. Artistic innovations such as painting out of doors developed to capture the spirit and quick pace of recreational activities. The Impressionists’ brushwork suggests both the atmospheric effects and the sensations of movement that contribute to the invigorating experience of boating.
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