May 2012 Newsletter
Weekly critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League -526 Broadway, Santa Cruz
Plein Aire: Thursdays
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Opportunities to Exhibit:
California State Fair (Sacramento) Thursday July 12- Sunday, July 29. Entry deadline: April 20th. California state Fair P.O. Box 15649, Sacramento, 95852 or www.bigfun.org, select, Fine Art’ or contact entryoffice@calexpo.com
National Watercolor Society 92nd Annual Exhibit – NWS Gallery, 915 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedrro, CA. 90731 Opening & Reception 9/29/12 Deadline: 5/24/12. $25,ooo+ in Awards -Jury of Selection: Elaine Daily-Birnbaum, chair; Fran Larsen, Warren Taylor- Jury of Awards: Barbara Nechis- Prospectus (after 3/24/12) at www.nationalwatercolorsociety.org or SASE to: Penny Hill, 1145 Barham Drive #130, San Marcos, CA. 92078 -Annual Demos: Barbara Nechis, 8/12/12; Thomas Schaller, 9/30/12
Scotts Valley Crafter’s Market: Beginning June 16, 2012, Scotts Valley Artisans will host a weekly local artists Crafter’s Market outdoors in the King’s Village Shopping Center. All artists living in Santa Cruz County are invited to participate through a juried process. Music and food will be included in this community-centered weekly event. Booth spaces will be 10×10 and all artists will need to have canopies or pop-ups. Spaces for artists are $40 per Saturday. The hours of the Crafter’s Market will overlap with the Scotts Valley Farmer’s Market, which is 1/2 block away from where our market will be held. If you’d like to participate, please email Dawn at dawn@scottsvalleyartisans.com. If we haven’t already seen your work, please email photos of your art (or your website address.) DATES : Each Saturday market will run from 10am to 4pm. June 16; June 23; June 30; July 7; July 14; July 21; August 4; August 11; August 18
Members Exhibits:
Lee Taiz will be showing watercolors in Galleria Tonantzin’s 20th Anniversary y Celebration catalog and exhibit, June 1-july 29. Galleria Tonantzin is located at 115 Third Street, San Juan Bautista, CA. phone: (831 623 ARTE (2783)
Diana Henrichsen will be showing watercolors at Café Ella, 734 East Lake Ave, Watsonville. CA. May 28-July 7. There will be a reception on Saturday, June 2 from 2-4 PM
Joanna Jarvis is exhibiting at the Salinas Valley Art Gallery.
Carol Riddle will be participating in the Redwood Mountain Faire at Roaring Camp, June 2nd. and 3rd. with a booth of her watercolors.
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Ed Penniman will have paintings exhibited in the Santa Cruz Art League lobby from June1- July 1, 2012. The reception will be June 9 from 3-5PM in tandem with the 82nd. Annual California Statewide Landscape Exhibit of which he is the curator.
The Lobby Show: (Tragic Beauty)
Drawings, paintings (oil and watercolors), mono-prints and photographs by Ed Penniman, a Guillaine-Barré Syndrome survivor, of figure model and friend Kate who has secondary-progressive MS.
A small representation of work spanning three and a half years and hundreds of pieces of artwork produced by disabled artist and model. “This small but powerful presentation of art is to honor Katie’s courage and commitment to staying really alive, to fully living her own life and in helping me with my artistic endeavors.” Ed Penniman
Artist’s Statement
As a disabled person I am keenly aware of the struggle of other physically challenged individuals. I met and hired Kate as a part time employee for my design business. I appreciated her beauty when I met her and, after a friendship grew, thought it would be challenging, and mutually spiritually healing for us to engage in an art project. Our joint effort started as portraiture then developed in to a number of art sessions where my intention was to more deeply capture her beauty and emotional state in my artwork. My purpose was to stop time and portray the dynamic of her disability pitted against her sensual yet wholesome “Irish nun” looks. As an artist I have attempted to respectfully capture the truth in her beauty, and visually express an underlying current of hope and dread.
Exhibits Around Town:
Santa Cruz Art League: 82nd annual statewide landscape exhibit; June 1-July1 reception: Saturday, June 9 from 3-5
Museum of Art and History : Love is in the air at the MAH this spring. This museum-wide exhibition explores the many ways that love is manifest in our everyday lives. The artworks and historical objects reflect everything from passionate love stories to love gone wrong to the fierce love between mother and child. The exhibition includes extraordinary artworks by over thirty artists including Joan Brown, Younhee Paik, and Raymond Saunders, as well as historic love letters, wedding dresses, and objects of affection from the Museum of Art & History’s permanent collection. March 31- July 29, 2012
UCSC: Irwin Scholars 2012 through June 17. The Sesnon Gallery Scholarship Award exhibit showcases some of UCSC’s most promising artists working in painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, video and digital media.
Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:
Legion of Honor:
The Cult of Beauty: Victorian Avant- Guard, 1860-1900. Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, 34th Ave at Clement St. Tuesdays- Sundays, February 18- June 17. www.legionofhonor.org
Making Modern Picture Books (Children’s Books from the Victorian Era) through June 17
De Young Museum:
The Art of Anatolian Kilm through July 29
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier through August 19
Opening September 15: A Taste for Modernism including works by Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Derain, Gauguin, Rouault, Bonnard and Vuillard.
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