Janine Free Photography in San Diego

Janine Free's exhibit is at GALLERY 21 in the Spanish Village at Balboa Park. Janine's inventive and wry photography show is still up until Monday at 4 pm. If you go you will be surprised and enchanted by her thoughtful work. I hope you get the chance to stop by.

Irene Abraham solo show: Interchange

                                                                     hard wired, acrylic, graphite on board, 30" x 30"

Art Institute of California – San Diego

7650 Mission Valley Rd, San Diego, CA - (858) 598-1200

Solo show “Interchange” from September 21 through November 3.

Artist reception will be October 5, 6-8 PM.

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Small Expressions 2012

Summer's arrived in San Diego, warm but not too warm for a road trip to the Long Beach Museum of Art to see an annual international juried exhibit sponsored by the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. Small Expressions 2012 showcases fiber art on a small scale, not to exceed 15 inches in any direction. There are 37 contemporary art works on display.

My favorite piece in this small exhibit of small objects was Leaves, 2011, by artist Jenine Shereos, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. At first glance these airy leaves looked like delicate leaf skeletons. Upon a closer look I saw that the sculptural leaves were created by tying, wrapping and stitching human hair. . . a real delight to encounter!

May 10 - August 12, 2012, at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California. Juror: Carol Shaw-Sutton, Professor of Art California State University, Long Beach

Still time to see this

try this link   The Exquisite Garden  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1heDRjSIDz0&feature=plcp) for a short tour of this fascinating installation at the William D. Cannon Art Gallery in Carlsabad, CA.  This is a collaboration with Joe Brubaker, a team of associated artists and local artists and students.    They have filled the space at the Cannon with many scenes of joy, delight and menace.  A sound scape adds a further heightening ingredient for this unusual show.

Irene's show at Waldorf College

I enjoyed talking to the guests at the reception for Seeing is Believing  at the Waldorf College Art Gallery in Iowa.  It is wonderful when the viewers add their own spin to my work.  Their insights enrich my thought processes.

Irene's Show in the Yellow Rose State

Setting up

This shot gives you an idea of my what my solo show at the Hannah Bacol Busch Gallery in Houston looked like.  Here you see the final stages of the setup.  Much of the work was unframed Mylar paintings/drawings so getting them to sit flat was a bit of an issue, but all worked out well in the end.

SDAI Southern California Regional Exhibit opening reception

Ledge members Judith Parenio and Cheryl Griffiths both had pieces of their work chosen for the Southern California Regional Exhibit at SDAI (the San Diego Art Institute) in Balboa Park in March 2012.

Judith Parenio's large encaustic piece above entitled "Pollen" with admirers

Cheryl Griffiths received an award for her

monoprint/drypoint titled "Hope"

Snippets: Visual Text

By Kathy Miller
 
 I was honored to be invited to be in a group exhibition called: Snippets: Visual Text, at The Gallery at R&F in Kingston, New York, along with five other visual artists, two of whom worked collaboratively. The artists included Kristy Deetz (Wisconsin), Anne Gorrick (New York) & Scott Helmes (Minnesota), Kathy Miller (California), Graceann Warn (Michigan), and Daniella Woolf (California). The show ran from February 4th through March 24th, 2012.

'Snippets’ is a group exhibition that looks at a variety of ways that artists use text, or allow their work to reference and be informed by words or books as the building blocks for an object or image. The featured artists approach text in a variety of ways; as pure matter, as metaphor, as specific content, as texture or atmosphere, and as concept. By bringing these different but related works together, ‘Snippets’ presents a visual conversation between the participating artists on these same issues, connecting through ideas of language.

Additional photos can be found at Snippets: Visual Text

Joint project at Boomtime show at MiraCosta College

This a view of some of the constructions we made especially for this show. Work by Judith Parenio is on the back wall.