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Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 11:08 AM
Starting off 2012 with plans for our THIRD ANNUAL SUMMER ART SALON...... Dates and times to be announced soon. Classes at FOGBELT STUDIO will begin in March and run through October....... Dates and times to be announced soon. Susan and Kathy will again be making the rounds of the Bay Area museums and galleries, and putting their notes and news in the blog......keep checking to see what we find. |
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Kathy and Jennifer: Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:47 AM
We went to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco to see Pissarro's People, an exhibit of nearly 100 of his works, and what a wonderful exhibit! Viewing the beautiful Pissarro's People made me feel transported to 18th Century France. It was beautiful and so informatively curated. Room after room filled with his vibrant textural paintings of people doing their every day work - family, workers in fields, just common ordinary people - also sketches, studies, drawings and etchings. He was so prolific. And an anarchist in a good sense - feeling that everyone was equal and it shows in his portrayal of the workers. You could stand practically nose to painting, almost smell the paint - even though his last work was late 1890s. Also there is another wonderful exhibit - The Mourners - 37 small tomb sculptures, all in carved alabaster, in near perfect condition, from the Court of Burgundy early 1400s. The Mourners were intriguing and quite fitting for the season (kind of creepy, otherworldly). Both exhibits will be up until the end of 2011 |
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Kathy: Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2011 8:57 PM
Lots of art to view this month of October - each weekend Open Studios in San Francisco.....5 weekends = 800 + Artists. Art Span's guide book is the best ever this year with good sized color images of the work. Hurry! only one weekend to go, and that is the Hunters Point area. Art we have year round at our main San Francisco museums, opens three shows this month: Masters of Venice - Renaissance Painters comes to the de Young on October 29th, Pissarro's People opened on October 22 at the Legion of Honor and Richard Serra Drawing - a retrospective at SFMOMA began October 15. Plan to see each one, but no need to rush - all three shows continue into 2012. I chose to venture down to Pacifica today to attend a reception for Tangerine Arts at Ocean Yoga - 90C Eureka Square. A group of local women artists who show together have their wonderful artwork in this peaceful setting until November 27th. www.oceanyoga.com Then onto Sanchez Art Center on Linda Mar Blvd. for the Art Guild of Pacifica's 53rd annual Members Exhibit, and the Awards for Excellence from last year's show featuring the winners Bill Gallo, Myles Kleinfeld and Deanna Taubman. All three galleries filled with good art in many mediums - Four artists (Amanda Boehm-Garcia, Cynthia Rettig, Janine Stegnaier and Denny Holland) received the Awards of Excellence for 2011. There were also six Merit Awards given by Shannon Trimble, the Awards Juror. Very worthwhile art experiences all - go see and enjoy! |
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Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:43 AM
The Art Guild of Pacifica is having their 53rd members exhibit October 14 through November 20, 2011..........we will be reviewing it within a week....... |
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Susan and Kathy: Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2011 6:35 PM
… the 50/50 show currently at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica until October 2. This is the third year that Sanchez Art Center has run this show, and it is wonderful! We think this year is the best. Three of our FOGBELT Summer Art Salon artists are represented – Jennifer Alpaugh, Michael Risenhoover, and Roxanne Worthington – beautiful works! DeWitt Cheng, juror, selected 68 artists committed to creating a body of work, by producing a single work of art in the same medium with the same theme, every day for 50 days. These 3,400 original artworks, each six inches square, fill the Main, West, and East galleries. And all are for sale. As spectators, we were struck by the diversity of mediums - which ranged from encaustic, mixed media, enamel, chalk pastel, oil, acrylic, traditional and digital photography, monoprint, cyanotype, watercolor and “plain old” pencil. While the greater Bay Area was well represented among the artists, there were many from locations throughout California to Washington, an indication of greater awareness of this creative and visually exciting Sanchez yearly event. Sanchez Art Center is located in Pacifica at 1220 Linda Mar Blvd. Galleries are open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 1 to 5 pm, The show ends Sunday, October 2. |
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Susan: Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2011 9:26 AM
The Art Guild of Pacifica’s latest show is “Flight.” According to the prospectus, the theme involves any or all possibilities of the term “flight,” including flying, fleeing, soaring, swift movement, transcending ordinary bounds, birds, insects, aviators. Art WaVeS Gallery Artists Michael Risenhoover and Nancy Russell are coordinating the non-juried show, and Michael’s work can be seen along with that of fellow Art WaVeS people Melinda Lightfoot and Susan Black. “Flight” opens in the West Gallery on Friday, July 8, with a reception from 7-9 PM, and runs until Sunday August 14. Sanchez Art Center at 1220 Linda Mar Boulevard in Pacifica - hours are Fridays-Saturdays-Sundays 1-5 PM. http://www.sanchezartcenter.org/ |
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Susan: Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 5:14 PM
It was fun! That was the bottom line, for me, of the SUMMER ART SALON weekend. Details on the show, and the participating artists and our theme, are elsewhere on this website, so I won’t repeat them here. But … fun! It was fun to help set up all the work – the paintings, photographs, prints, glass pieces and sculptures – and admire the imagination and the technical prowess that each piece embodied. It was fun to distribute the 100+ pieces around Kathy’s house in a balanced, eye-pleasing, “come look at me” manner. It was fun to greet visitors as they arrived and guide them around. It was fun to listen to questions and answers. It was fun to sit quietly with my fellow artists and talk about some pertinent art issues. And it was more than fun to reflect on what an artistically rich and diverse area we live in and create in. The Summer Art Salon was but a sampling of what was on offer in the Bay Area that weekend – any weekend, actually, any day – to look at, admire, question and be inspired by. |
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Susan & Kathy: Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:30 PM
Go see … … the “California Grown” show at the Sanchez Art Center’s East Gallery, May 27 (opening reception 7-9 PM) – June 26 (closing reception 1-3 PM). “California Grown” presents the work of the nine members of Tangerine Arts - http://www.tangerinearts.net - a group of women artists from the San Francisco Bay Area who meet for camaraderie and to share resources, ideas and artwork. The group, which began in 1999 and has exhibited since 2000, includes Art WaVeS Gallery artists Jennifer Alpaugh, Melinda Lightfoot and Nancy Russell. The Sanchez Art center is at 1220B Linda Mar Boulevard in Pacifica. Hours are Friday-Saturday-Sunday 1-5 PM |
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Susan: Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 4:50 PM
In honor of the many baseball fans in my life, I went again this year to see George Krevsky’s (14) annual fan-fest, “The Fine Art of Baseball,” at his gallery at 77 Geary Street. (Through May 28.) Being a generalist in the baseball department, I found the work to be reassuringly familiar (which is certainly part of baseball’s appeal). The main change from years past is that – with the home team having won the 2010 World Series – there was a lot of orange-and-black. My favorite work was a watercolor that both captured the blurred speed of a batter’s swing and froze his posture in the manner of a stop-action freeze-frame. Fan or not, any artist can admire this study of the body in motion. |
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Susan: Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 3:07 PM
The other day, I did something I should do more often – I visited the Asian Art Museum and was reminded, yet again, what makes it such a special place for me. It’s not just the shows – and the current headliner is “Bali – Art, Ritual, Performance” (through September 11) – that entrance me. It is the sense of peace and solitude that I enjoy. I am in a haven, as I slowly pace the low-lit, spacious galleries full of deities, jade, netsuke, carvings, statues, weapons, textiles, furniture, scrolls, pottery, paintings … and every once in a while, a restful grouping of low-backed sofas. This last visit, I was carrying a copy of the book of poetry for which Kay Ryan has just won the Pulitzer, so I sat for a while over a couple of poems and then moved on. I felt – comfortably so – as if I were the only person in the museum or even in the city. I ended my visit meditating in my favorite place of all -- the quiet alcove that contains the stone water-feature “Tsukuba” by Izumi Masatochi. I hesitate to call the work a fountain, as there is seemingly no movement in the water in the basin and certainly no sound – but the tranquil energy of its fluid element is palpable. As for the Bali show, of all the treasures on exhibit there, I was most taken with a continuous loop videotape display of a traditional cremation ceremony. I had just come from a Catholic funeral, so I was in the right frame of mind to ponder questions of belief, religion, culture and the afterlife. The atmosphere at the Asian somehow encourages this. Another key take-away was “Here Not Here – Buddha Present in Eight Recent Works” (through October 23), dedicated to the Buddhist notion of impermanence. |
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