Special Events

Art/Wine/Food Event at the Gallery - September 24, 2009

2009 SHOWS

January
INTERFACE
Paintings by SANDRA HOOVER
Furniture by STEVE ROW

February
TOTEMS
Introducing Paintings by MICHAEL SHEMCHUK
New Work Totems, by sculptor MARK OLDLAND

March

ANNE GREGORY New Water Colors and New Charcoals The last charcoal drawing I created for this exhibit is called "Whorl is the World". And it could speak for all the large drawings and small paintings in the exhibit. I realized after completing this drawing that I've been interested in this whorl or whirl for a long time. Sometimes the directional movement is descending, sometimes twirling, but catching disparate things--ribbons, lace, bats, birds, fish, insects, anything really. It all adds up, combines into one whole---world. Anne

EXODUS, 39 (w) x 66(h) inches, Charcoal and Mixed Media Anne Gregory

April

Introducing CAROL SETTERLUND Paintings and Wooden Sculpture Born in Humboldt County, Carol Setterlund has lived in Northern California for most of her life. A self-taught sculptor, she has spent over fifteen years exploring the complexities of human existence in forms of roughly hewn wood. For much of the early part of her career, she drew inspiration from natural forms and the landscape and was strongly influenced by British abstract artist Barbara Hepworth. In the late 1980s, however, she turned to figurative works of intentional ambiguity and paradox. Setterlund carves and shape wood into forms that touch on those parts of the human experience that are outside of time and place.

BABEL, 66 x 18 x 18 inches, Carved and found wood, acrylics, metal Carol Setterlund

May

Guest Curator Show by Gallery Susan Alexander Participating Artists: (from left to right, top row) Joseph Mele - The Egyptian Art Moura - Chicken Man Sherry Parker - The Big Idea Tracy Fitzgerald - Queen (from left to right, bottom row) Tiffany Schmierer - Ballerina Jenny Honnert Abell - Book Cover #40 Naomi Pitcairn - See No Evil Joe Kowalczyk - Unbound Gallery Susan Alexander is an online gallery and this is the first time they're joining forces with Pamela Skinner/Gwenna Howard Contemporary Art.

June

LAURA PARKER - FORGED STEEL SCULPTURE JACK ALVAREZ - NEW PAINTINGS

Top: Equilibrium, Laura Parker, Forged Steel Bottom: On a Wire, Jack Alvarez, Acrylic, Graphite on Canvas

July

OFF THE GRID Summer Group Show with Chris Botta Paule Dubois Dupuis Rogelio Manzo Jennifer Mercede Rhett Neal Linda Raynsford

Dreaming about a Pink Donut Chris Botta Acrylic on board 18 x 24 inches 2009

August
GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED DURING THIS HOT SUMMER MONTH!

September

NEW WORK BY MARK BOWLES (PREVIEW ON THE RIGHT)

Sum of Light Acrylic on Canvas 2009

October

KEEPERS noun 1. a person who manages or looks after something in particular overseer, steward, caretaker 2. a thing worth keeping Artists serve a unique roll in society. In good times as well as bad, artists are the keepers of imagination and the creative process. In an era when the arts are taking a back seat to the economic woes of the times, there are stewards of the intangible, they are the Keepers. Aaron Petersen - Reed Danziger Cynthia Ona Innis - Lorene Anderson Michael McConnell - Mary Alison Lucas

November

MIKE RIEGEL - Sculpture Lee Altman - Drawings Agelio Batle - Paintings Sacramento Artist/Professor, Mike Riegel, will exhibit his new work, metal/concrete/ and tar sculpture. Lee Altman and Agelio Batle are newcomers to the gallery.

Torso by Mike Riegel 62 x 16 x 14 inches Steel and Tar 2009