Brian Rounds at Eloise Smith
Linda Pope, curator at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, is a woman with an aesthetic mission, and a great eye. Witness her current choice of UCSC alum Brian Rounds, who has attracted a cult following (more…)
Babes in the Arts: 3
Fran O’Neill is a ferociously talented painter.
She’s also a high-energy Australian working at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village. O’Neill’s muscular paintings, especially the watercolors, are so dense you can practically chew them with your eyes. See for yourself.
Art Attack
Last night’s reception for the Intimate Landscape painting show and Laura Parker’s “Taste of Place” soil installation – at UCSC Sesnon Gallery – brought out a fairly hefty contingent of Santa Cruz arts movers and shakers. Curated by Frank Galuszka and orchestrated by Sesnon director Shelby Graham (left), (more…)
Dishing Dirt
Eco-artist Laura Parker blurs the boundaries between art and cuisine with an irresistible installation called Taste of Place, which makes a strong case for the unique terroir of a region as a mineral flavor. (more…)
Babes in the Arts: Susan Moore
Top Spot: Susan Moore is a wickedly gifted painter. She’s also a professor at the prestigious Tyler School of Art and a total babe. Check out her new website, fully locked and loaded with sensuous images. Susan’s intense portraits (see below) have long been famed in the inner circles of American art — her work has appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. Take a minute to let her work cast its spell.
Babes in the Arts: Part 2
Sara Pringle, UCSC art graduate and rising New York art scene star, can paint her way out of a paper bag. Mad about color, Pringle is busy morphing her style from portraiture, to mega-abstractions into something on the far side of Jawlensky on psylocibin. Her new website will take your rods and cones on a wild picnic. Feast!
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.