October 2012 Newsletter
January 15 2013 is set for the Annual meeting of Santa Cruz Watercolor Society. Please reserve this date for our potluck social and business meeting.
Weekly critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League
526 Broadway, Santa Cruz
Plein Aire: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time.)
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Members Exhibits:
Lee Taiz will be showing watercolors at Valley Heights in Watsonville in November and December.
Anna Huskey will be showing work at the Azhar Hair Design studio: 507 Cedar St. Santa Cruz (one block off Pacific Ave. at Cathcart and Cedar) November-December. receptions: Nov. 4 from 6-9 and First Friday Dec.7 from 6-9.
Exhibits Around Town:
Pajaro Valley Gallery: Mi Casa Es Su Casa
The Pajaro Valley Arts Council marks the 20th anniversary of its annual Dia de Los Muertos art event with a new exhibit showcasing the work of Catalina Delgado Trunk. The Mexican born Trunk is a fine-arts practitioner in the art of “Papel Picado,’ elaborate pieces created from cut out paper. The exhibit will open Sunday, Oct. 27 with a reception from 2-4pm at the Pajaro Valley Gallery in Watsonville and run through Dec. 2. Details: pajarovalleyartscouncil.org.
Santa Cruz Art League:
Visual Politics: Art and the American Experience, 2012 (Juried)
Oct. 27 – Nov. 25, 2012, Reception: Nov. 3, 3-5
Coming to MAH (Museum of Art and History) August 11- November 25: Rose Sellery- Passages Get ready for a thoughtful exhibition that makes a lasting impression. Passages is a dark fairy tale with a happy ending. The whole-gallery installation walks the visitor through a narrative that describes the life of a woman who longs for a husband, marries an abusive man, loses herself, finds herself, escapes, and, ultimately, lives happily ever after with a loving partner. Works include a rug made of baby shoes, a bed made of bones, and an installation reflecting on vanity and aging that includes a pair of “Gray Haired Mules”. The works in the exhibition are stunning and provocative, taking the viewer on an unforgettable emotional and visual journey.
Rose Sellery is a noted Santa Cruz artist, assistant director of the Cabrillo College Gallery, and 2011 Gail Rich award winner. She works in the materials essential to the piece; from metal to bone, cigarette butts to rose petals, fabric to photographs, creating humorous, thought-provoking and occasionally disturbing objects.
UCSC:
Natural Discourse: Artists, architects, scientists and poets in the Garden.
An exhibition at the UC Botanical Garden
July 14, 2012–January 20, 2013
This is a collaborative project between the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a multi-disciplinary group of artists, writers, architects and researchers who have been invited to spend time in the Garden’s extraordinary collection of plants, engage with the horticulturalists and develop site-specific work.
UCSC- Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite
+ new work from Cuba October 3- November 21
Reception: October 3, 5:00-6:30pm followed by artist talk
in the Digital Arts Research Center DARC 108 from 6:45-7:45pm
This exhibition brings together photographers, jazz musicians, and discourse surrounding Hurricane Katrina and life in New Orleans and Cuba.
Forthcoming book New Orleans Suite by Eric Porter and Lewis Watts University of California Press.
Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:
Asian Art Museum: (Dale calls this a spectacular exhibit of Chinese calligraphy.) Out of Character. With masterpieces on view for the first time in the West and works from modern and contemporary artists, Out of Character is a bold and unprecedented presentation of Chinese calligraphy.
Legion of Honor:
De Young Museum:
Opening September 15: A Taste for Modernism includes works by Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Derain, Gauguin, Rouault, Bonnard and Vuillard.
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