by Christina Waters | Jun 25, 2007 | Art |
The Rosecrans Project Art Exhibit, is the work of San Diego-based sculptor Brad Burkhart, whose inspiration for the project is the process of envisioning a post-war world. The opening reception is this Friday, June 29, at 6pm at Louden Nelson Center.
It began when Burkhart was visiting the Rosecrans National Military Cemetery in 2003, where soldiers from every major US conflict are buried. After sitting alongside the graves of those soldiers – including the first American to die in the current Iraq war — Burkhart’s creative response was a series of bas-relief sculptures, entitled The Rosecrans Project.†(more…)
by Christina Waters | Jun 7, 2007 | Art |
Porcelain artist Jenny Morten is at it again — plan to show up at Esplanade Park in Capitola, on June 24 to be amazed by Morten’s delicate vases and bowls in colors of the sea. Sumptuous stuff. “Art at the Beach” – it was good enough for Monet. It’s good enough for me!
by Christina Waters | May 24, 2007 | Art |
Come up and see what talent, hard work, great instructors and an Irwin scholarship, can create. The annual Irwin Scholarship exhibition – opening Wednesday, May 30, 5-7pm at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery — is entirely packed with some of the best from some of the brightest. This year’s scholarship recipients — Michael Allison, Nicola Buffa, Katie Dorame, Kevin Dwyer, Adam Harms, Ian Paul, Henry Plant, Sean-Michael Rau, Maria Schoettler, Augustus Thompson, Olivia Vegh — are painters, photographers, installations artists, sculptors, printmakers, whose creativity has been helped by the support of the William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship Fund.
Juicy artwork, a free public reception, what’s not to like? The gallery is located at Porter College, and is open Tues-Sat, noon to 5pm. For details, check the Sesnon website. See you on Wednesday.
by Christina Waters | May 23, 2007 | Art |
This year’s New Music Works Avant Garden Party is seasoned – both musically and culinarily – with the complex spices of Thailand. This Sunday, June 3 from 3-7pm, the mysteriously tropical island and lagoon located in a mythic corner up the upper yacht harber, will host a rare and beautiful display of Thai Piphat Music and Dance by the ensemble of Wat Buddhanusorn, the brilliant a capella work of the Ariose singers directed by Michael McGushin, a world premier of interactive installation Ttitriadic Chimes, songs by Paul Hindemith and compositions by NMW founder Philip Collins.
But for the hungry and thirsty, just know that your $35 adv/$40 door ticket price also gets you tipples from an array of wines, beers and exotic beverages – plus the al fresco Southeast Asian delicacies from the woks of Jozseph Schultz and David Jackman. (more…)
by Christina Waters | May 21, 2007 | Art |
Boris Tyomkin, Dylan Morgan and Dag Weiser are showing some fresh paint on canvas – an experimental mix full of attitude and gusto – at the Michaelangelo Gallery on River Road, at the edge of Santa Cruz, starting June 1. Not what you expect. Check it out.
by Christina Waters | Apr 8, 2007 | Art, Home |
The walls will sizzle at UCSC’s Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, with a rare selection of work from UCSC faculty, entitled FUSE. The selected work explores the influence of digital media and technology on the artists’ practice. Work from FUSE will travel to Japan as FUSE / FURERU in collaboration with two university art galleries: Zokei Gallery and University Museum, Tokyo Zokei University; and Gallery AUBE, Kyoto University of Art and Design. In exchange, the Sesnon Gallery will host an exhibition of faculty work from the Tokyo and Kyoto universities in fall 2008. The FUSE show at the Sesnon will showcase arts faculty, including Jimin Lee, whose haunting digital etching, Shadowy Locus, is shown here, plus work from Frank Galuszka, Jennie McDade, Dee Hibbert-Jones, Lewis Watts and others. A provocative glimpse at faculty creativity, FUSE runs April 11-May 12, with an opening reception tonight Wednesday, April 11, 5-7pm. Also, check out the panel discussion, Tuesday, May 1 at the UCSC Media Theater with Jimin Lee, Norman Locks, E.G. Crichton and Ed Osborn. The Gallery, located at Porter College, is open Tuesday-Saturday noon – 5pm.
