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Calendar
of Events |
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Wine
And Cheese
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With The
Artist
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The
Big Sur Gallery is located in the Carmel Rancho Shopping Center, across
from
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the
Barnyard in Carmel. For more information call 831-624-1172
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The
gallery is open to the public Mon- Fri 10:00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 11am-4pm
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BOB MUSON
DECEMBER 7TH 2007
FROM 5-8 PM |
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APRIL
21st
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Francine
Markoe
When
viewers see my work, I hope they sense in my unusual organic
forms a love of the natural environment- desert,
mountains, ocean, the vast sky, even the cosmos. I paint
spontaneously, trying to capture the fluid motion and energy.
On
both medium size and large formats, I like to use bold acrylic
colors to create dynamic patterns which seem to erupt
from the canvas with volcanic force. In some of my mixed media
work, I place color over prepared layers of different substances
or I incorporate pieces of natural rock and stone to achieve
heavily textured surfaces. As an artist for over 25 years, I
have been
mentored by Laddie John Dill and by teachers whose visions were
strong, vivid and dynamic.
Join us
Saturday, may 19, 3-5 p.m
VIEW SHOW
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May
5th 
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MAY 19th
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Ea
Eckerman was raised on the
island
of
O’ahu
,
Hawaii
. Enjoying a
Childhood in the
outdoors, Ea learned to balance academics and play at
an early oil
painting and sculpture. After completing his
Fine Art’s degree in
1993, Ea has been working in
Santa Cruz
developing a unique style and
body of work. His works are in collections
from
France
to
Hawaii
, as
well as, becoming a part of many
California
homes where his style of
painting is said to truly capture the feeling of the
California
coast.
Ea’s work attempts to cross the real with the abstract,
invoking the
patterns and colors of nature. In both his
paintings and his
sculpture, there is a way of seeing that remains unique to the
artist.
Join
us Saturday, May 5th 3-5 p.m Ea will also be giving an Art
Demonstration
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Holly Fassett
Holly Fassett is known for
her vibrant acrylic renditions of the Big Sur Coast. She calls
Highway One "Big Sur’s Life Line" and many of her
most intense images reflect the power of the road as it winds
it’s way along the coast, describing this most dynamic meeting
of land and sea. Most recently, Holly has brought her gaze
inward to more domestic scenes, exploring the intimate
juxtapositions of color and pattern of the still-life, under the
tutelage of her brother, noted artist/designer Kaffe Fassett.
Since childhood, Holly has been immersed in
the creative life. Her great grandmother was Jane Gallatin
Powers, a noted painter who had the first artist’s studio in
Carmel and worked with her husband Frank Powers to create
Carmel-by-the-Sea. Her parents Lolly and Bill Fassett built
Nepenthe in Big Sur, a legendary watering hole for artists,
poets, writers and bohemians, where Holly works to this day.
Join
us Saturday, May 19th 3-5 p.m VIEW
SHOW
Holly
will also be Demonstrating her knitting talents
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JUNE 2nd
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JOINT EVENT
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Hans
Peter Kaindl .
Copper
Foil is engraved with the sketch using a special pen and a
soft under layer. The foil is returned and a layer of tempera
is put over it. With a special paper, some of the colour is
moved away, to make the piece shiny. Then the egg tempera is
put on the figures.
The
process was developed 10 years ago. I started to use aluminum
folio, later I found the quality of copper folio.
The image in the “paintings” are coming from my
shamanistic work.
I was trained by Felicitas Goodman and I have been working in
this trance therapy field since 9 years old.
Melissa
Lofton
Artist
Melissa Lofton was born in Carmel, California and is the
daughter of Carmel artist Richard Lofton. Being raised in a
richly creative environment gave Melissa an early familiarity
with the artistic process and the use of materials. She
attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, University of
California at Davis, and the Monterey Institute of
International Studies in Monterey. A long-time resident of the
Big Sur area, Lofton maintains a studio at home in Big Sur as
well as one in Carmel Valley. She became a member of the
Carmel Art Association in 1998.
Lofton's work reflects a
deep love of nature. She draws upon imagery from the Big Sur
area, the Monterey Peninsula, and from her travels. Many of
her images come from her meditation and dreams. A
self-confessed "chromophile", Lofton paints with
vibrant color and lively imagery.
Join
us Saturday, 3-5 p.m
,
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JUNE 16th
"ABSTRACTED STONES"
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CHRISTINA MILES
"ABSTRACTED
STONES"
Making art is inevitable for
me and my creativity has its own agenda. experience
painting as a state of departure and temporary exile, a
foreigner in a landscape of risk and uncertainty. The
spontaneity required by this technique engages the visceral
expression in my nature.
The paintings
are created by applying many layers of acrylic transparencies,
chiseling them away, followed by more layering. Contrasts,
dimensions and vibrancies are attained in this way.
I have been painting
since 1969, both in and out of classes, yet still consider
myself an emerging artist. Many artistic detours are taken
along this journey of discovery, most recently forays into
assemblage, mosaic and pique assiette garden sculptures.
To be taken
seriously as an artist, one has to take oneself seriously as
an artist .
This is my voice spoken in colors.
PAINTING
DEMONSTRATION & ART EXHIBIT
VIEW
WORKS
Join us Saturday, June 3-5 p.m
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JULY 21st |
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| DIANA
MARTO
The
earth inspires my work in bas relief sculpture cast in
handmade paper. My fascination with handmade paper
began over 30 years ago while searching for the
perfect paper to print on. I think of these series,
the “Santa Lucia Series” and the “Locus
Magiquorum Series” as treasure hunts, from the macro
to the micro, that the work invites investigation,
akin to walking in the desert or on a beach. The list
of what is embedded in the work is a trace of my
travels and interactions as earth from Picuris Pueblo
in New Mexico, green shale from Maui, amethysts from
Brazil, rose sand from Big Sur, lace from my Sicilian
Grandmothers tatting.
Working
with raw fibers, some I’ve harvested from along
streams and in gardens, others imported from
Asia
, fulfills a deep longing to connect with creation. If
you were to see my work surface you’d think it was
an event in nature. While working I think of first
formation when the earth was molten and cataclysmic,
slowly cooling and settling as I watch water flow,
become entrapped as the piece dries. I like to upset
the fibers by placing different kinds next to one
another so that they will warp and shrink at varying
rates, thus creating inconsistencies as tea
leaves from China, Gampi, a wild shrub that grows in
Japan, cotton, abaca from the inner stalk of the
banana plant, papyrus form a friend’s garden. I work
backwards so that I only have a feeling for what will
be revealed which is similar to printing from an
etching plate. I trained as a printmaker and studied
with Stanley William Hayter at his world famous
Atelier 17 in
Paris
. When I returned to the
US
and wended my way west I was introduced to monotype by
Joe Zirker and Nathan Oliveira.
Join
us Saturday, 3-5 p.m
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KIMBERLEE ELLEN BROWN
Fine Art Fabric Landscapes
I have been creating art for
as long as I can remember, in some form or another: everything
from drawings and paintings to costumes. I began college as an
art major specializing in nature photography, for which I won
many awards during that time. I finished my education with a
degree in biology, but commercial employment took me too far
away from the natural world. Eventually I returned to my art and
discovered the use of fabric as an art medium.
I also broadened my
perspective by becoming a private pilot. I used to think that I
wanted to venture to the stars, but seeing the earth from above,
in a small airplane, reminded me of the greatness of our own
planet- the forests, the oceans, mountains, deserts- how truly
amazing! I am still fascinated with the universe beyond, but
there is so much to see and experience here, and not just from
an airplane, from the patterns in the skin of a lizard to the
giant, ancient trees and great, twisting canyons. We live in a
stunningly beautiful world and I can't help my desire to express
this in my art.
SATERDAY JULY 21st FROM 3-5 PM
VIEW
WORKS
Brown will demonstrate ,Using layers of her own hand-painted fabrics, creating unusual landscape images with depth and texture. Each work is cut freehand and sewn by hand into place thus each piece is entirely unique.
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AUGUST 4th
LEE LAWSON
FRANKA ZIKA
GEORGE JERCICH |
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Three nationally exhibited artists are coming
together to present
"Gathering Light"
Color in Light and Form
wine & cheese reception at Big Sur
Gallery in Carmel in on August 4th 4-7 pm
Visionary artists George Jercich, Lee
Lawson, and Frank Zika will exhibit recent
paintings and glass works that reveal each artists unique creative
vision and life long fascination with the play of color, light
and form.
George Jercich is a well known glass artist whose
works are highly appraised and selected for exhibition among art
collectors in the US and abroad. He is recognized as an instrumental
figure in the development of the studio glass art movement in California.
Jercich is a professor emeritus in Art and Design at Cal Poly,
has traveled, taught and exhibited extensively in sich places as Germany,
the Czech
Republic and, most recently, Southeast Asia. Mr. Jercich
tries not to favor one technique or style in glass forming but uses
many different approaches to achieve exciting and innovative three
dimensional sculptural results.
Lee Lawson's richly textured paintings, which are
internationally exhibited and collected, gather light color and form
into luminious painted landscapes, seascapes, people, jars, flower
fields and skies. Each canvas from this masterful visionary artist
is an evocative jewel-like vista that reveals unseen forces flowing
into the visible world. Several of the works on display are from her
series Heaven and Earth. Ms. Lawson lives and works in San
Luis Obispo County.
Frank Zika's kiln formed glass has been selected as
among the significant new works by the Corning Museum of Glass. His
work was selected for the California Design Exhibition and
recieved the NICHE Award for the best kiln-formed glass in the United
States. Zika's sensuously molded, vividly colored glass
panels are mesmerizing as light strikes and illuminates the
abstracted forms moving within the shaped glass. The works are
variously architectural panels for doors and windows, wall are, and
freestanding sculpture. Zika is a long time Central
Coast resident.
__________________________________________________________________
THE EXHIBIT WIIL SHOW FROM AUGUST
4th-16th
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AUGUST 18
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"STONE, STEEL & CEMENT
"
JOHN CHAPPELL
Upon graduating
with a degree in zoology from U.C. Davis,
John moved to The Monterey Peninsula to pursue wildlife studies.
Moss
Landing and Elkhorn Slough became a focal point for his
interest in photographing shorebirds. Landscape and portrait
photography have also provide him the challenge of combining art with
craft. In 1980, John established his own business in ceramic and stone
installation. His experience has culminated in the production of
tables, lamps and curiosities in stone, steel and cement.
His affinity for
natural materials becomes apparent in all his works
Art Demonstration
&
Wine and Cheese
Reception
featuring
David Noyes Wines
Tocai Friulano,North Coast 2005
Exhibit Showing through
August 31st
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|
"THE
WILLOW COLLECTION"
WILL BROWN
My
interest in beads began in the late 60’s when the antique
Trade
beads began to come out of Africa. I was taken by the energy of
hundreds of years of use by many nations. I had never designed
any
Jewelry
before, but after sitting down with many strands of glass and
natural stone beads I developed a style that I have maintained
to this day.
Now
I use semi precious stones from around the globe to create the
necklaces you see today. The colors, shapes and also the
intrinsic properties of each stone inspires me to combine them
into a variety of designs.
The
ancient people all used these same stones for their personal
well-being. To ward off illness, to reach spiritual fulfillment,
as well as to decorate themselves on special occasions.
All of my
designs are original one of a kind pieces. I have exhibited in
the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach and several other art shows
in Arizona and California for many years.
TRUNK
SHOW
Wine and Cheese
Reception
featuring
LOCAL VINEYARD HELLER ESTATE
&
David Noyes Wines
Tocai Friulano,North Coast 2005
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"Jeweled Courage"
Braham Rendlen
I am painting what I feel is the healing energy of the land and its beings. It is this primal force that has
drawn me outside to paint. A deep connection with the land and the elemental forces of nature is
a thread running through all my work.
Wine and Cheese
Reception
featuring
LOCAL VINEYARD HELLER ESTATE
&
David Noyes Wines
Tocai Friulano,North Coast 2005
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Calendar
of Events |
|
Wine
And Cheese
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|
With The
Artist
|
|
|
The
Big Sur Gallery is located in the Carmel Rancho Shopping Center, across
from
|
|
|
the
Barnyard in Carmel. For more information call 831-624-1172
|
|
|
|
|
|
The
gallery is open to the public Mon- Fri 10:00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 11am-4pm
|
|
|
|
BOB MUSON
DECEMBER 7TH 2007
FROM 5-8 PM |
|
|
|
APRIL
21st
|
|
| |
Francine
Markoe
When
viewers see my work, I hope they sense in my unusual organic
forms a love of the natural environment- desert,
mountains, ocean, the vast sky, even the cosmos. I paint
spontaneously, trying to capture the fluid motion and energy.
On
both medium size and large formats, I like to use bold acrylic
colors to create dynamic patterns which seem to erupt
from the canvas with volcanic force. In some of my mixed media
work, I place color over prepared layers of different substances
or I incorporate pieces of natural rock and stone to achieve
heavily textured surfaces. As an artist for over 25 years, I
have been
mentored by Laddie John Dill and by teachers whose visions were
strong, vivid and dynamic.
Join us
Saturday, may 19, 3-5 p.m
VIEW SHOW
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|
May
5th
|
MAY 19th
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|
|
Ea
Eckerman was raised on the
island
of
O’ahu
,
Hawaii
. Enjoying a
Childhood in the
outdoors, Ea learned to balance academics and play at
an early oil
painting and sculpture. After completing his
Fine Art’s degree in
1993, Ea has been working in
Santa Cruz
developing a unique style and
body of work. His works are in collections
from
France
to
Hawaii
, as
well as, becoming a part of many
California
homes where his style of
painting is said to truly capture the feeling of the
California
coast.
Ea’s work attempts to cross the real with the abstract,
invoking the
patterns and colors of nature. In both his
paintings and his
sculpture, there is a way of seeing that remains unique to the
artist.
Join
us Saturday, May 5th 3-5 p.m Ea will also be giving an Art
Demonstration
|
|
|
Holly Fassett
Holly Fassett is known for
her vibrant acrylic renditions of the Big Sur Coast. She calls
Highway One "Big Sur’s Life Line" and many of her
most intense images reflect the power of the road as it winds
it’s way along the coast, describing this most dynamic meeting
of land and sea. Most recently, Holly has brought her gaze
inward to more domestic scenes, exploring the intimate
juxtapositions of color and pattern of the still-life, under the
tutelage of her brother, noted artist/designer Kaffe Fassett.
Since childhood, Holly has been immersed in
the creative life. Her great grandmother was Jane Gallatin
Powers, a noted painter who had the first artist’s studio in
Carmel and worked with her husband Frank Powers to create
Carmel-by-the-Sea. Her parents Lolly and Bill Fassett built
Nepenthe in Big Sur, a legendary watering hole for artists,
poets, writers and bohemians, where Holly works to this day.
Join
us Saturday, May 19th 3-5 p.m VIEW
SHOW
Holly
will also be Demonstrating her knitting talents
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JUNE 2nd
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JOINT EVENT
| |
Hans
Peter Kaindl .
Copper
Foil is engraved with the sketch using a special pen and a
soft under layer. The foil is returned and a layer of tempera
is put over it. With a special paper, some of the colour is
moved away, to make the piece shiny. Then the egg tempera is
put on the figures.
The
process was developed 10 years ago. I started to use aluminum
folio, later I found the quality of copper folio.
The image in the “paintings” are coming from my
shamanistic work.
I was trained by Felicitas Goodman and I have been working in
this trance therapy field since 9 years old.
Melissa
Lofton
Artist
Melissa Lofton was born in Carmel, California and is the
daughter of Carmel artist Richard Lofton. Being raised in a
richly creative environment gave Melissa an early familiarity
with the artistic process and the use of materials. She
attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, University of
California at Davis, and the Monterey Institute of
International Studies in Monterey. A long-time resident of the
Big Sur area, Lofton maintains a studio at home in Big Sur as
well as one in Carmel Valley. She became a member of the
Carmel Art Association in 1998.
Lofton's work reflects a
deep love of nature. She draws upon imagery from the Big Sur
area, the Monterey Peninsula, and from her travels. Many of
her images come from her meditation and dreams. A
self-confessed "chromophile", Lofton paints with
vibrant color and lively imagery.
Join
us Saturday, 3-5 p.m
,
|
|
|
|
JUNE 16th
"ABSTRACTED STONES"
|
|
|
CHRISTINA MILES
"ABSTRACTED
STONES"
Making art is inevitable for
me and my creativity has its own agenda. experience
painting as a state of departure and temporary exile, a
foreigner in a landscape of risk and uncertainty. The
spontaneity required by this technique engages the visceral
expression in my nature.
The paintings
are created by applying many layers of acrylic transparencies,
chiseling them away, followed by more layering. Contrasts,
dimensions and vibrancies are attained in this way.
I have been painting
since 1969, both in and out of classes, yet still consider
myself an emerging artist. Many artistic detours are taken
along this journey of discovery, most recently forays into
assemblage, mosaic and pique assiette garden sculptures.
To be taken
seriously as an artist, one has to take oneself seriously as
an artist .
This is my voice spoken in colors.
PAINTING
DEMONSTRATION & ART EXHIBIT
VIEW
WORKS
Join us Saturday, June 3-5 p.m
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|
|
|
JULY 21st |
|
|
| DIANA
MARTO
The
earth inspires my work in bas relief sculpture cast in
handmade paper. My fascination with handmade paper
began over 30 years ago while searching for the
perfect paper to print on. I think of these series,
the “Santa Lucia Series” and the “Locus
Magiquorum Series” as treasure hunts, from the macro
to the micro, that the work invites investigation,
akin to walking in the desert or on a beach. The list
of what is embedded in the work is a trace of my
travels and interactions as earth from Picuris Pueblo
in New Mexico, green shale from Maui, amethysts from
Brazil, rose sand from Big Sur, lace from my Sicilian
Grandmothers tatting.
Working
with raw fibers, some I’ve harvested from along
streams and in gardens, others imported from
Asia
, fulfills a deep longing to connect with creation. If
you were to see my work surface you’d think it was
an event in nature. While working I think of first
formation when the earth was molten and cataclysmic,
slowly cooling and settling as I watch water flow,
become entrapped as the piece dries. I like to upset
the fibers by placing different kinds next to one
another so that they will warp and shrink at varying
rates, thus creating inconsistencies as tea
leaves from China, Gampi, a wild shrub that grows in
Japan, cotton, abaca from the inner stalk of the
banana plant, papyrus form a friend’s garden. I work
backwards so that I only have a feeling for what will
be revealed which is similar to printing from an
etching plate. I trained as a printmaker and studied
with Stanley William Hayter at his world famous
Atelier 17 in
Paris
. When I returned to the
US
and wended my way west I was introduced to monotype by
Joe Zirker and Nathan Oliveira.
Join
us Saturday, 3-5 p.m
|
|
|
|
|
KIMBERLEE ELLEN BROWN
Fine Art Fabric Landscapes
I have been creating art for
as long as I can remember, in some form or another: everything
from drawings and paintings to costumes. I began college as an
art major specializing in nature photography, for which I won
many awards during that time. I finished my education with a
degree in biology, but commercial employment took me too far
away from the natural world. Eventually I returned to my art and
discovered the use of fabric as an art medium.
I also broadened my
perspective by becoming a private pilot. I used to think that I
wanted to venture to the stars, but seeing the earth from above,
in a small airplane, reminded me of the greatness of our own
planet- the forests, the oceans, mountains, deserts- how truly
amazing! I am still fascinated with the universe beyond, but
there is so much to see and experience here, and not just from
an airplane, from the patterns in the skin of a lizard to the
giant, ancient trees and great, twisting canyons. We live in a
stunningly beautiful world and I can't help my desire to express
this in my art.
SATERDAY JULY 21st FROM 3-5 PM
VIEW
WORKS
Brown will demonstrate ,Using layers of her own hand-painted fabrics, creating unusual landscape images with depth and texture. Each work is cut freehand and sewn by hand into place thus each piece is entirely unique.
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|
AUGUST 4th
LEE LAWSON
FRANKA ZIKA
GEORGE JERCICH |
|
Three nationally exhibited artists are coming
together to present
"Gathering Light"
Color in Light and Form
wine & cheese reception at Big Sur
Gallery in Carmel in on August 4th 4-7 pm
Visionary artists George Jercich, Lee
Lawson, and Frank Zika will exhibit recent
paintings and glass works that reveal each artists unique creative
vision and life long fascination with the play of color, light
and form.
George Jercich is a well known glass artist whose
works are highly appraised and selected for exhibition among art
collectors in the US and abroad. He is recognized as an instrumental
figure in the development of the studio glass art movement in California.
Jercich is a professor emeritus in Art and Design at Cal Poly,
has traveled, taught and exhibited extensively in sich places as Germany,
the Czech
Republic and, most recently, Southeast Asia. Mr. Jercich
tries not to favor one technique or style in glass forming but uses
many different approaches to achieve exciting and innovative three
dimensional sculptural results.
Lee Lawson's richly textured paintings, which are
internationally exhibited and collected, gather light color and form
into luminious painted landscapes, seascapes, people, jars, flower
fields and skies. Each canvas from this masterful visionary artist
is an evocative jewel-like vista that reveals unseen forces flowing
into the visible world. Several of the works on display are from her
series Heaven and Earth. Ms. Lawson lives and works in San
Luis Obispo County.
Frank Zika's kiln formed glass has been selected as
among the significant new works by the Corning Museum of Glass. His
work was selected for the California Design Exhibition and
recieved the NICHE Award for the best kiln-formed glass in the United
States. Zika's sensuously molded, vividly colored glass
panels are mesmerizing as light strikes and illuminates the
abstracted forms moving within the shaped glass. The works are
variously architectural panels for doors and windows, wall are, and
freestanding sculpture. Zika is a long time Central
Coast resident.
__________________________________________________________________
THE EXHIBIT WIIL SHOW FROM AUGUST
4th-16th
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|
AUGUST 18
|
"STONE, STEEL & CEMENT
"
JOHN CHAPPELL
Upon graduating
with a degree in zoology from U.C. Davis,
John moved to The Monterey Peninsula to pursue wildlife studies.
Moss
Landing and Elkhorn Slough became a focal point for his
interest in photographing shorebirds. Landscape and portrait
photography have also provide him the challenge of combining art with
craft. In 1980, John established his own business in ceramic and stone
installation. His experience has culminated in the production of
tables, lamps and curiosities in stone, steel and cement.
His affinity for
natural materials becomes apparent in all his works
Art Demonstration
&
Wine and Cheese
Reception
featuring
David Noyes Wines
Tocai Friulano,North Coast 2005
Exhibit Showing through
August 31st
|
|
|
|
|
"THE
WILLOW COLLECTION"
WILL BROWN
My
interest in beads began in the late 60’s when the antique
Trade
beads began to come out of Africa. I was taken by the energy of
hundreds of years of use by many nations. I had never designed
any
Jewelry
before, but after sitting down with many strands of glass and
natural stone beads I developed a style that I have maintained
to this day.
Now
I use semi precious stones from around the globe to create the
necklaces you see today. The colors, shapes and also the
intrinsic properties of each stone inspires me to combine them
into a variety of designs.
The
ancient people all used these same stones for their personal
well-being. To ward off illness, to reach spiritual fulfillment,
as well as to decorate themselves on special occasions.
All of my
designs are original one of a kind pieces. I have exhibited in
the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach and several other art shows
in Arizona and California for many years.
TRUNK
SHOW
Wine and Cheese
Reception
featuring
LOCAL VINEYARD HELLER ESTATE
&
David Noyes Wines
Tocai Friulano,North Coast 2005
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ART SHOWS, EVENTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
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2006 |
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FEBRUARY
24 th ROBIN COVENTRY SOUL
SEEDING a retrospective of
Robin Coventry's life work" |
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