And whatever you do, and wherever you go on this two weekend art crawl, don’t miss the painstakingly crafted, multi-colored etchings made by prolific artist Stephanie Martin.
Martin specializes in nature prints, beautifully drawn and expertly printed from copper plates, in the manner of Rembrandt and Goya. Here is a detail from her print of the Orange-Crowned Warbler.
Open Studio 2011 runs Oct 1-2, 8-9 and 15-16 from 11am – 5pm. Details here.
If you haven’t yet caught her act, this is your chance. I’m talking about mega-babe Carie McAlpine, and her ultra-cool sidemen, who are about to tear down the house at Zelda’s this weekend. Dripping sensuality McAlpine’s smoky alto can wail and moan while covering blues and rock classics with complete (and sassy) confidence.
The entire package is hot, especially this remarkable vocalist who whips the word “sultry” into full-blown proportions. Before Carie and the Soulshakers rearrange every molecule in Capitola, get on down there and check out her act.
This Saturday, 9pm-midnight, Zelda’s – 203 Esplanade, Capitola.Carie & the Soulshakers. Yeah baby.
Come celebrate 25 years of awarding scholarships to top UCSC art students, thanks to the bequest of William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin.
This year’s crop of exhibiting artists includes Raphael Cornford, Richard Desanto, Ellia Sarah Duhart, Luis Flores, Olivia Healy-Mirkovich, Sakura Kelley, Joseph Lai, Bela Messex, Kelsey Spencer, Kirsten Spooner, Leslie Thompson, Chelsea Ware, and Luke Wilson (all shown here in typical art student attitude, photographed by Sakura Kelley.)
The Reception is this Wednesday, May 25 5-7pm, with an awards ceremony @ 6pm.
Come enjoy artwork that authentically deserves the term “cutting edge.”
For details, contact the Gallery, at Porter College on the UCSC campus. The Irwin Show runs through June 11, 2011.
You might not need an excuse to visit Carmel on a sunny day in May, but here’s one anyway. A new show at Winfield Gallery will showcase a new suite of large-scale neo-mannerist paintings by Santa Cruz-based virtuoso Frank Galuszka. Inspired by the themes of exaggerated perspectives, attenuated limbs and congianti effects, these paintings are the harvest of several years of Galuszka’s research in Italy as well as studio experimentation.
Winfield Gallery – Dolores, between Ocean & 7th, in Carmel. 831.624.3369.
Myth & the Coast: II Mannerist paintings, Frank Galuszka,
May 1-30, 2011.
Santa Cruz-based author and coffeehouse habituée, Carolyn Burke, has done it again. Deepening her reputation as an historian of French modernism, Burke has published an accessible and richly-detailed saga of the life, loves and career of French chanteuse Edith Piaf.
Burke will appear at 7:30pm on May 5 at Bookshop Santa Cruz to talk about her literary quest for details, friends and lovers of the iconic “little sparrow” who defined world-weary toughness and courage during the war years in Paris.
No Regrets is a work of scrupulous research—though it must have been a biographer’s dream to interview some of Piaf’s many lovers. Detailed yet absorbing, Burke’s new book will thrill fans of the colorful cabaret star and will appeal equally to those who barely know of the legendary French songstress.
Without descending into gossip, Burke’s research uncovers the lurid longings as well as the almost superhuman stamina of Piaf, signature traits which fueled the singer’s eventual decline into drug and alcohol excess. (more…)
Starting today, new oil paintings by David Molesky will be on view at Carmel’s chic Winfield Gallery — strategically located smack dab in the fashionable center of everybody’s favorite tourist town-by-the-sea.
Dolores between Ocean & 7th – Mon-Sat, 11-5 and Sundays 12-5.
Just go and see. You’ll love these atmospheric paintings by romantic realist Molesky.
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.