Before it closes, come up to the UCSC campus — Friday evening, March 4 — to take in the show of intaglio masterworks by the late Geoff Morten. Remarks and conversation, led by painter Frank Galuszka, will begin at 4pm.
You know where the Sesnon Gallery is – Porter College, UCSC. Upstairs.
I refer to The Marriage of Figaro – live at the San Francisco Opera House – and Das Rheingold, via HD simulcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. One experience involved a procession of time, travel, anticipation, the entrance into the great hall, the darkened theater, the murmuring audience and the ineffable sense of being surrounded by a living organism – the opera – about to unfold.
The other involves considerably less cost, much less travel – the opera was screened at a downtown movie theater – incredible crisp visuals thanks to intimate hi-def camerawork, even behind-the-scenes interviews before the opera, and remarkable acoustics.
Mozart’s much-loved froth about love, deception and marriage still seduces the ears with music so beautiful, so replete with joie de vivre that it forgives (more…)
And that means a chance to check out the paintings by Charles Prentiss, Sat & Sun, October 16 & 17 from 10am until 5pm.
To find out details and directions to Prentiss’ oceanview studio, go here.
Make plans to come visit the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery at UCSC’s Cowell College, where two visually opulent shows will open on October 12.
Astonishing large-scale images by visual technologist Peter Harris, Flowers in the Digital Age will be shown in the Main Gallery, and in the Annex Gallery, a show of new work by painter Betsy Miller.
Closing Reception for both artists is on Sunday, November 21, 2-4pm. The artists will be present. The public is invited. Gallery hours are 11am – 4pm Tues-Sun. Contact gallery director Linda Pope, 831 459-2953, for details.
Sensitive figure paintings from a trio of top local artists, Tom Maderos, Barbara Downs and Claire Thorson, will be on exhibition through October 29 starting First Friday at Michaelangelo Gallery.
The Artist’s Reception – Friday, October 1, 6-8:30pm – will be held at the gallery, 1111-A River Street.
Sharing studio sessions together, the three painters have evolved rich and varying perspectives on the same model subjects, and this show will offer a vivid glimpse into the differences that style, perspective and palette can make on a finished artwork.
Shown here: Amanda Seated, by Tom Maderas, mixed media on linen, 20 x 16 inches, 2009.
Through September 29 you can catch the electrifying work of painter Frank Hyder, at the Walter Wickiser Gallery, 210 Eleventh Ave., Ste. 303 in Manhattan’s Chelsea district. Hyder’s large-scale artworks are front-loaded with richly saturated colors and threaded with visible and invisible spirals, votices and mysterious webs.
The title of the show — Persistent Dream — says it all. Hyder is a longtime artist and teacher, both in his native northeast as well as in South America.
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