Now at Westmont Museum

VITAL

A Tri-County Juried Exhibit

Exhibition Dates: May 21 – June 20, 2015

Juror: Ciara Ennis – Director/Curator, Pitzer College Art Galleries

Boiling Storm 48x24" ©2015 N Strasbutg

There is only a couple more weeks left to see the annual show at Westmont!There are some real beauties in the show.

Museum Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am – 4 pm Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm

California Dreaming in Southern California

Thanks to Mary-Austin Klein for getting images of the California Dreaming exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art before it closes and moves to the Riverside Museum. It is a juried show that debuted in Italy before returning to California for it's 10 months on So Cal walls. It will reopen in Riverside at the end of April with a reception on May 7, 2015. More information HERE.

California Dreaming - An International Portrait of Southern California

The freeways are a huge part of our lives here in Southern California and getting to be more so with new overpasses, carpool lanes and throughways being built each year as an attempt to alleviate some of the congestion. I don't know that Caltrans can keep up with our population explosion, it takes far too long to erect something of this scale while trying to keep commuters commuting.

I digress though... this post is about an exhibition, an exhibition that is representative of a snapshot portrait of Southern California. It was an open call to artists from the Oceanside Museum of Art with the lure of a year long exhibition that travels to three venues, Oceanside Museum, Riverside Museum and the Salone d’Ingresso of Il Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone. That's right, the show launches in Italy!

Of 900 works by 335 artists, 50 artworks were selected by a panel of 4 curators. "Overpass No. 5" 30x30" Reductive Woodblock Monoprint was accepted to show and travel until next July.  The Italian leg of the journey has started and the exhibition will open October 4th and run through the 28th, Then the work is crated and shipped back to the states for an opening in Oceanside in December 2014.

OPS No. 5 ©2014 Nicole Strasburg

Our Italian Host

Alfio Borghese, Gallery Director of Il Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone, has been acclaimed throughout Italy for over 40 years as art critic, curator, film director and journalist. He serves as artistic director of the Festival of Contemporary Visual Arts sponsored by the City and the Province of Frosinone and frequently curates prominent exhibitions throughout Italy. Since 2012 Borghese has served as president and curator of the Biennale di Frosinone, Anagni and Alatri.

A member of one of Italy’s most prominent noble families founded in 1266, Borghese has produced hundreds of live theatrical performances, in addition to a distinguished series of films and documentaries featuring the most important European artists, writers and political figures of the twentieth century.

Exhibition Venue

California Dreaming: An International Portrait of Southern California is privileged to exhibit in the grand Salone d’Ingresso of Il Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone for the month of October 2014.




Located 56 miles (90 kilometers) southeast of Rome’s Villa Borghese, Il Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone was constructed in the 1930’s by architect and sculptor Giovanni Jacobucci. Designed in the neoclassical style, the monumental structure dominates the Piazza Antonio Gramsci with its immense proportions. The grandeur of the Palazzo’s Salone d’Ingresso is enhanced by a majestic double staircase leading to the upper levels of the structure, which house the provincial offices of Frosinone and a permanent collection of artworks by notable artists including abstract sculptor Umberto Mastroianni and mannerist painter Giuseppe Cesari, instructor of Caravaggio during the late 16th century.


 

Just in case you can't rush off to Italy, there will be two opportunities to see the show in Southern California.


Palazzo della Provincia di Frosinone, Frosinone, Italy, October 4 – 28, 2014
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside CA, December 6, 2014 – March 29, 2015
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, April 21 – July 5, 2015

 

Reception tomorrow in Solvang

Thank you Newspress!

Original / Multiple

Following the Red Thread

February 4 through April 7, 2012

Reception Febraury 4 from 4-6pm

Elverhoj Museum

1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang CA

ph: 805 686 1211

Business matters

A great business article from the NY Times gave me some thoughts about the new start up business... Two Dog STAMPede. More design work and carving is in my future, but what about the marketing, promotion, planning, inspiration of it all?

Also in the schedule is preparation for the delivery and installation of the Limited Edition collection at the Elverhoj Museum in Solvang next week. Tuesday will be the beginning of installing a show that will showcase the 13 prints from the Limited Edition Project artists, as well as supplementary/complimentary pieces that will both educate and inform the editions printed.

The opening reception will be Saturday, February 4th from 3-6pm. There will also be a panel discussion with several of the artists on March 4th and a practical printing demonstration on March 24th.

More information will be forthcoming.

Thank you Westmont Auction!

Recently the new Museum at the Westmont College campus held a great fundraising event called 5X5. It was a super idea which included over 400 artists producing images five by five inches. And let me say, five by five of superb, delicious, irresistible pieces. 

It was a chance to donate, participate, advocate, and celebrate a new building, a new art center AND best of all! take home a one of kind something from your choice of over 500 small images. A spectacular idea to auction off really wonderful works to support a new venue for celebrating art in our community.

Me? I took home four lovelies for my very own.

 Money by James Elston {Gouache, Acrylic & Colored Pencil}

 Untitled by Lloyd Dangle {Ink on Paper}

Behind the Shadow by Luigia Martelloni {Mixed Media}

Wonderland by Barb Parmet {Digital Print}

Chris Winfield and Fresno Art Museum

A new show is opening at the Fresno Art Museum
curated by Chris Winfield and Linda Cano. The show
titled California: Landscape of Dreams runs from
August 19th 2011 through January 6 2012.

Gaviota Pier 24x48" Oil on cradled birch panel

Two works of mine from the Winfield Gallery in Carmel will be included. At present I don't know how many artists or works will be included in this show. I'm looking forward to seeing it and finding out. Winfield Gallery has many fabulous landscape painters like David Ligare and Frank Galuszka. I'm honored to be hanging in their company. Thank you Chris.

Morning Estuary 48x24" Oil on cradled birch panel