by Christina Waters | Apr 22, 2010 | Art, Home |
Shiva Paintstiks are the designer version of largescale crayons for professional artists. Think of oil paints in stick form and you’re there. Thing is, they require some practice to really achieve a good result. That’s where Andy Lenz comes in. Longtime local artist and paintstik maestro, Lenz will provide a free, in-store demo of these intriguing art tools, this Saturday, April 24, from 1-3pm, at (I think you probably already know where) – at Lenz Arts, 142 River Street.
Here’s an example (l.) of how compelling paintstick artwork can look from the hand of a master. This is part of the on-going oeuvre of Philadelphia artist Susan Moore, most of whose output for the past decade has been created using oil stick techniques.
by Christina Waters | Apr 8, 2010 | Art, Home |
Paintings by Frank Galuszka, Ray Ginghofer, Peter Loftus and Erika Perloff, among others, will be showcased at the Wind & Weather show at Davenport Gallery, through the end of the month.
The exhibition features leading specialists of plein air landscape paintings. (Shown here, Galuszka’s Cove, Davenport, 24 x 36 inches, oil on canvas.)
Don’t miss the Artist’s Reception, this Saturday, April 17 from 5-8pm.
Davenport Gallery is located at 450 Hwy 1, next door to the Davenport Roadhouse.
by Christina Waters | Mar 31, 2010 | Art |
If there’s a stringed instrument that David Lindley hasn’t mastered, it doesn’t exist. The former lead guitarist for Jackson Browne, whose soaring riffs burned their way through most of the classics of Browne’s golden age – and beyond, into the eclectic world music excesses of El Rayo-X – will team up with dobro maestro Bob Brozman this Saturday, at the Rio Theater, for some blistering string theory.
Lindley’s virtuosity with the string repertoire of Asia, Egypt, the Caribbean, Uzbekestan, Latin America, the American south, and on and on, has made him a legend among ethnomusicologists as well as rock groupies who want it all. The show should be amazing.
Amazing.
Rio Theater – still holding down the center of Soquel Avenue on the eastside of Santa Cruz. Contact Snazzy Productions for ticket info. But just be there. The show this Saturday starts at 7:30pm – Gold Circle $40adv/general $25.
by Christina Waters | Feb 3, 2010 | Art, Home |
Dynamic maestra Nicole Paiement dazzled packed houses in San Francisco last weekend with a series of ingenious performances of Wozzeck, Alban Berg’s stormy psychological opera blending surrealism and modernist atonality.
Paiement and company worked with a newly-adapted score for chamber orchestra, a move that created greater intimacy of sound. The audience felt drawn into the harrowing story portrayed in the jewelbox Yerba Buena theater. Berg’s great opera of class anger and cultural schizophrenia — created in the years just after the Great War — was given a riveting (more…)
by Christina Waters | Nov 29, 2009 | Art |
Ceramic artist Jenny Morten makes porcelain objects so appealing, to the eye and the hand, that they manage to shape-shift across the border between sculpture and functionality.
Ablaze with subtle hues of the ocean and shore, her bowls, vases and gleaming hand-thrown items make sensational gifts. You will want to claim some for your very own, too. These pieces are extremely seductive — I own several pieces myself, and intend to own even more.
Original hand-crafted artwork. Yes, this is exactly the sort of thing that enlightened Santas like to deal with.
Jenny Morten’s Mar Monte Studio is open on Saturdays 2pm – 5pm, through December 19th.
168 Mar Monte Avenue, La Selva Beach – 831/688-5173
by Christina Waters | Nov 19, 2009 | Art |
Nicole Paiement conducts the UCSC Orchestra and Choir in three performances of the Baroque masterwork by Mozart. The Requiem will be performed in the Recital Hall, Friday Nov. 20 at 7:30 pm, Saturday Nov 21 at 7:30 pm and Sunday Nov 22 at 2:00 pm. $24 general, $20 senior, $10 student.
The Requiem is considered one of the treasures of the choral repertoire and offers celestial quartets, thundering fugues and some of the most operatic Latin ever devised. There is not one ounce of flab or down-time in this soaring collaboration of choir and orchestra. And there’s not a bad seat in this acoustically-gifted hall.
For ticket information see the website, or call the UCSC Performing Arts Ticket Office @ 831/459-2159.
