(Woodland Hills, California) – Please join us Thursday September 13th 6-8pm at the Pierce College Art Gallery for the reception of Erika Lizée’s Solo Exhibition. Lizée is a painter who creates illusion-based installations. Mysterious, biomorphic forms appear to exist within the walls of the gallery, while tendril-like elements expand and emerge into the physical space of the viewer. She imagines gallery walls as symbolic thresholds between different realms of existence, between life and death. The illusionistic quality of these installations also speaks to how perceptions and beliefs create reality.
The use of illusion in her work is important, as it gives rise to simultaneous feelings of wonder and uncertainty in viewers. For Lizée, it serves as a metaphor for how we can feel such awe for the beauty, complexity and interconnectedness of the world we live in, while also harboring intense feelings of doubt and anxiety surrounding the big questions of where we come from, what the purpose of our lives is and what happens when we eventually die.
Lizée has always been drawn to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which is a tale that considers how our perceptions of the world around us create what we believe to be real. When our perceptions change through experience, so do our concepts of what is real. In her installations, the use of illusionistic and sculptural paintings work in conjunction with actual light and shadow to create a transformative experience for viewers, as their perceptions shift with a greater understanding of the relationship between artistic materials and exhibition space.
The installations serve as a parallel for the journey of our personal and shared life experiences. Individually, each piece has its own inspirations, pulling from sacred geometry, nature and symbols of the feminine. Overall, these works speak to the deep-rooted questions we have always faced in relation to the existence of the universe and our role in it.
Erika Lizée was born in Chicago, Illinois, yet was raised in a tiny town in Northern Wisconsin. Much of her childhood was spent exploring the woods, swimming the lakes and climbing the snowdrifts of this serene part of the country. Her upbringing fostered a strong connection to the natural world, which remains an important aspect of Lizée’s life and artwork.
Ms. Lizée is an artist that creates site-specific, illusion-based installations with acrylic paint. Most recently, she has built installations within the Vita Art Center, Gallery 825, Launch LA, ArtShare LA, and the International Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Her work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Beautiful/Decay, HiFructose, The Huffington Post and Beautiful Bizarre magazines.
Erika Lizée earned a BFA in Painting from UNC Asheville, and her MFA in Painting from CSU Northridge. She is a Professor of Art at Moorpark College, as well as the Director of the Moorpark College Art Gallery. She lives and works in the greater Los Angeles area.
May 2-30, 2018
School of Visual Arts Project Spaces CE
NY, NY
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents Searching, a solo show by artist Kathryn Hart. The exhibition will be on view from May 2-30, 2018 in the Project Spaces CE locations at 209 East 23rd Street, Main floor, and 380 2nd Ave, 8th floor. This is Hart’s first solo show at the SVA.
In this solo exhibition, Hart explores the web of emotions confronted in the search to begin anew, and the burden of choice. She continues her dialogue with evolving identity and the hope for new beginnings amidst a maze of emotional conflict, pain, and self-doubt.
Hart offers, “after life leaves us tumbled upside down, completely derailed, we pick ourselves up and begin the search for…personal truth, enlightenment, growth, love, connections, a place to feel comfortable, a place to call home. We even search for the place to start the search. My flightpath was obliterated by an onslaught of happenings – my husband’s cancer, the deaths of both my parents, and my own struggle with an ongoing disease and trauma. How do I move forward?
The search starts with one intent, one thought, one moment, one breath, one catalyst, one cell, one dot. A series of dots, actions, sparks, ideas, or energy becomes a line, a trajectory. Lines reveal potential paths ahead and scars of the ones just followed.”
Kathryn Hart presents this theme across an array of media, which further illustrates the plethora of options for the journey. An on-site installation of hundreds of lines, wires and embedded glass lenses explores the miasma of available routes, some more circuitous and arduous, some involving forced self-reflection. Hart uses these laboriously hand tied knots and line to translate a period of unsettling uncertainty into a path to move forward. Shadowy lines hover behind the actual as beacons or footprints. Ink drawings, reminiscent of ancient cave drawings, indicate the inception of thought and movement. Abstract black and white photographs of found bones allude to structure, life, and an archeological excavation for hidden meanings. There is simplicity and strength in their starkness. The exhibition also includes complex hanging sculptures with line and objects embedded into dense surfaces. In all the presented artworks, Hart examines the dichotomies of movement and stillness, contemplation and decision, and space and line, and the importance of the duality in the search.
“Line represents journey, connections, strength, simplicity, scars, tethers, and choice. Knots can be entanglements, junctures, bindings, obstacles, hurdles, gates and coupling. I learned suture knots from my plastic surgeon father. His knots would both join and conceal.”
Hart delves into the tension between the search and choice, and ultimately, personal accountability. “We are bound by the choices we make. In the end, my search and its discoveries are all up to me.”
“I am inspired by many artists, particularly the poetry and bravery of Eva Hesse, the bold structures of Lee Bontecou, and the power and personal revelations of Louise Bourgeois.”
Kathryn Hart is a multi-disciplinary artist who exhibits frequently in New York City, throughout Europe, and most recently, Los Angeles. Museum, solo and group shows include Ateneo de Madrid (Madrid, Spain), Howland Cultural Center (Beacon, NY), IDEA Space/Colorado College, Andre Zarre Gallery (NYC), the Chelsea Art Museum (NYC), ArtHaus (Denver), Galerie SD Szucha 8 (Warsaw), Galeria 33 (Poland), Zamek w Goluchowie, (Poland), Myslenice Cultural Center (Poland), the Oceanside Museum of Art (CA), Museo de Castello de Estense (Italy), The Mitchell Museum (MD), Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts (Las Vegas), and the Colorado History Museum.
Her artwork is in the public collections of the Ministry of Culture of France, the Ministry of Culture of Poland, the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Arts, the Myslenice Cultural Center (Poland), and many private collections worldwide.
International awards include scholarships from the Council of Europe (2016), and the Ministries of Art and Culture of France and Poland (2015, 2014), and the United Nations Harmony for Peace Award (2010).
Hart is a member of A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a B.A. from Boston University, an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington, and has extended studies in art from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and the City of London Polytechnic. Hart lives in Colorado.
Hours are Monday-Saturday, 9am-9pm. The artist is available for private discussion and tours from May 20-May 29. Contact Kathryn Hart directly at 214-363-4025 or hart.kathrynd@gmail.com. Visit http://www.KathrynDHart.com for more information.
Hosted by Claremont Graduate University
Juried by Howard N. Fox
Opening reception: Sunday, March 25, 2-6 pm
Exhibit on view from March 24 – June 2, 2018
Millard Sheets Art Center (at the Fairplex)
1101 W. McKinley Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 10–5pm
By appointment only Monday through Friday.
To make an appointment, contact Thomas Canavan at canavan@fairplex.com
or email the SoCalMFA team at socalmfa@gmail.com
SoCalMFA reflects an increasingly diversified portrait of emerging artists in L.A.
This year’s SoCalMFA organizers, in conjunction with the Millard Sheets Art Center and Claremont Graduate University, are pleased to announce the third and largest annual Southern California MFA exhibition in Millard Sheets’ newly-renovated facility. Juried by Howard N. Fox, the exhibit captures 42 artists representing 17 Southern California MFA programs, using media that includes painting, fabric, sculpture, video, photography, installation, drawing, mixed-media, and more. Taken together, this exhibit is a barometer of the diverse critical and aesthetic concerns that will shape artistic production in Southern California for years to come. The exhibition also reflects Claremont’s Graduate University’s leadership as a center for artistic and cultural production in Southern California at the graduate level.
This year’s SoCal MFA organizing team is made up of former and current Claremont Graduate University students Madeline Arnault, Chelsea Boxwell, and Megan Kinney. The exhibition is the largest MFA exhibition in both number of works exhibited and number of schools represented. The 2018 exhibition includes 17 out of 18 eligible MFA programs in Southern California.
Since 2016, the SoCalMFA exhibit has called upon a guest juror to select works and curate, beginning with Steve Comba (2016) and Amanda Ross-Ho (2017). This year the juror will be Howard N. Fox, an independent curator and former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
We invite the public to explore this exhibition’s complex perspectives and overlapping themes and invite you to attend the exhibit’s opening reception on Sunday, March 25, from 2-6 p.m.
Accompanying the exhibition will be a public panel led by CGU Professor of Art Theory and History and LA Times art critic David Pagel. The panel will be free and open to the public and will address the culture of the MFA program. Selected artists from the exhibition will join Pagel in this discussion with a Q&A session from the audience. Dates and times will be posted on the Fairplex website and SoCalMFA’s Facebook Page. Please stay tuned for more information.
Participating artists: Madeline Arnault (Claremont Graduate University), Diego Barrientos (Cal Arts), Aurora Berger (Claremont Graduate University), Deitra Charles (Claremont Graduate University), Patricia Chow (Claremont Graduate University), Ji Soo Chung (UCLA), Carey Coleman (UCLA), Remi Dalton (Cal State San Diego), Yubo Dong (UC Irvine), Stevan Dupas (Cal State Long Beach), Jenny Eisenpresser (Art Center College of Design), Samantha Fitzmorris (Claremont Graduate University), Leslie Frank (Claremont Graduate University), Joshua Freeman (Azusa Pacific University), Molly Gabbard (Cal State San Diego), Eleanor Greer (Cal State San Diego), Timothy Haerens (Cal State San Bernardino), Harrison Halaska (Laguna College of Art and Design), Allison Holland (Cal State Fullerton), Lucy Holtsnider (UC Santa Barbara), Anna Laleggio (UC Irvine), Chloe Jeongmyo Kim (Otis College of Art and Design), Aleya Lanteigne (Cal State Sand Diego), Jian Liang (Claremont Graduate University), Jane Margarette (UCLA), Michelle Nunes (Cal State Northridge), Shane McClatchey (Laguna College of Art and Design), Moses Muturi (Cal State San Diego), Aydinaneth Ortiz (Cal Arts), Joshua Rains (Univeristy of Southern California), Rebecca Rich (Claremont Graduate University), Celia Rocha (Otis College of Art and Design), Heather Roessler (Cal State San Bernardino), Cintia Segovia (Cal State Long Beach), Kamaria Shepherd (UCLA), Nicole Waszak (Cal State San Diego), Charisse Weston (UC Irvine), Amy Williams (Cal State Long Beach), Ji Hyun Won (University of California Riverside), Jonathan Yacoub (Claremont Graduate University), Zebulon Zang (UC San Diego), and Benjamin Zhao (Claremont Graduate University).
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About Howard N. Fox
From 1985 through 2008, Fox has organized numerous major exhibitions and authored their catalogues. Some of his exhibits include Avant-Garde in the Eighties (1987), A Primal Spirit: Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors (1990), Lari Pittman (1996), and Eleanor Antin (1999). Fox recently returned to LACMA as guest curator for the critically acclaimed survey exhibition Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz.
About David Pagel
In addition to his position at CGU, Pagel is an adjunct curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. He also writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times. Since 1988, he has published reviews, features, and essays in Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, frieze, and Art Issues, where he was reviews editor from 1998 to 2001.
About CGU Art and the School of Arts & Humanities
The School of Arts & Humanities is home to a unique approach to graduate education, offering students the opportunity to study in and across disciplines as they “follow the problem.” Its research and teaching transcend academic boundaries and disregard the artificial divides between theory and application. Intimate seminar-style classes mean students build close working relationships with faculty-mentors, who in turn will help them thrive academically and launch meaningful careers.
About Fairplex and the Millard Sheets Art Center
Through its exhibitions, educational programs, events and workshops, the Millard Sheets Art Center provides the community with meaningful experiences within the world of visual arts. As part of The Learning Centers at Fairplex, the center engages the community at multiple levels of education and its exhibitions promote the rich and diverse cultures that lie within Los Angeles County and Southern California. Fairplex is an educational and entertainment complex that is home to the L.A. County Fair and 500 year-round events.
The exhibition will run Feb 24 – March 11, 2018
Opening Reception: opening Sunday Feb 25, 3-6pm
Gallery hours by appointment
All events free and open to the public.
Members of the San Diego Feminist Image Group, Shoebox Projects and the Swedish Group Krogen Amerika present artworks that explore multiple visions of what feminism is today, in the context of Southern California and Northern Europe. Artists address the complexity of gender equality through themes such as sexism, body image, class, race, politics, spirituality, domesticity, biology, and history.
This exhibition will travel to Stockholm, Sweden in May 2018.
The public is invited to attend the opening reception on Sunday, February 25, from 3-6pm at Shoebox Projects in the Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles. Artists will be present to engage the public.
The Feminist Image Group was formed in 2009. FIG is a coalition of San Diego visual artists who meet to discuss art, see exhibitions, and support one another in our careers. We work across many media, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, digital media and performance. The group has had exhibitions at San Diego Mesa College, Art Produce Gallery, Hyde Gallery at Grossmont College, Art San Diego Artfair, and has an upcoming exhibition at the Women’s Museum of California.
“Krogen Amerika” is the name of a Swedish printmaking group in the region of Östergötland in Sweden. The group works out of a a red wooden house from 1704 in the very center of the Swedish city of Linköping. During the years, it has functioned as a private home, a local pub, and a meeting place for emigrants to America (hence the name of the house, “Krogen Amerika”). Now it is a fully functional printmaking studio and art gallery. This artist-run gallery and studio space is partly funded by the city of Linköping. About 20 artists work here, and also together manage the space, with the support from the local community. The gallery exhibits artists from all over Sweden. Krogen America has exhibited as a group at Norrköpings Museum, Östergötlands Museum, Grafiska Sällskapet, the Palo Alto City Hall, Odense Konsthall Danmark, Berlin Kunstfactor.
Participating Artists:
Agneta Östlund, Amy Paul, Ann Olsen, Anna Stump, Anna Zappoli, Anne De Geer, Åsa Kvissberg, Berit Hammarbäck, Bhavna Mehta, Bibi Davidson, Caroline Färnström, Catherine Ruane, Cathy Immordino, Cecilia Uhlin, Chenhung Chen, Christina Ruthger,, Cindy Zimmerman, Dani Dodge, Daphne Hill, Diane Williams, Dwora Fried, Emily Blythe Jones, Emily Wiseman, Erika Lizée, Ginger Rosser, Grace Gray-Adams, Hannah Johansen, Hasti Radpoor, Helen Redman, Irene Abraham, Isabelle Nilsson, Jane Szabo, Janice Grinsell, Jeanne Dunn, Jennifer Bennett, Jenny Treece Jorup, JJ L’Heureux, Judy Christensen, Kathi McCord, Kathleen Mitchell, Kathy Miller, Kathy Nida, Kim Niehans, Kit Aaboe, Kristine Schomaker, Lauren Carrera, Lena Möller, Lena Wiklund, Linda Litteral, Linda Rae Coughlin, Lisa Hutton, Marina Holmberg, Moya Devine, Nilly Gill, Nurit Avesar, Petrina Cooper, Pia Göransson-Lie, Prudence Horne, Randi Leirnes, Randi Matushevitz, Samantha Fields, Samuelle Richardson, Sheli Silverio, Stacie Birky-Greene, Stephanie Bedwell, Susan Amorde, Susan Osborn, Susan T. Kurland, Terri Hughes-Oelrich, Terrilynn Quick, Yasmine Diaz
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
**UPDATE** I am so excited to announce, we raised $1400 to be split between the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the Trevor Project!!
HUDDLE
The #equalityforall #resist postcard art show
Hosted by Shoebox Projects and Art and Cake
Curated by Kristine Schomaker
Sponsored by Shoebox PR
From womensmarch.com…
“First, we marched. Now we Huddle. We will gather together in our neighborhoods all over the world to define our next steps, and envision how to transform the energy we saw at Women’s Marches into local and national action.
Huddle (n.) – a small group of people holding an informal conversation”
I was part of a recent huddle in Los Angeles. It was an amazing experience to feel like we aren’t alone in our thinking about the current political climate. We talked about what is going on in our country and what we could do to make a difference.
This is one of my next steps. I am curating a postcard art show at Shoebox Projects in September 2017.
Sales: All work is donated to the show and sold for $25 each. 100% of proceeds will be donated equally to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the Trevor Project. Payable by Check, Cash or Credit Card (additional fees may apply) at the reception.
Thank you for sharing your voices!!
Follow Art and Cake, Shoebox Projects and Shoebox PR to keep up with the latest information on our HUDDLE.
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Huddle – A Postcard Show at Shoebox Projects. Photo Credit. Kristine Schomaker
Santa Fe Art Colony is pleased to announce our 28th annual Open Studio Event.
There are 57 artist units at the SFAC,and they house a multitude of artists working in many mediums. Once a year the entire community comes alive and opens their studios for an art walk.
The live/work spaces offer guests an opportunity to meet and converse with the artist about their work, history and goals. It is an unique experience to see an artist at work and all work is for sale directly from the artist.
Santa Fe Art Colony was founded in 1988 with a grant from the LA Community Redevelopment Agency, to provide affordable living space for L.A. artists. SFAC is considered one of the oldest artist community residences in Los Angeles.
Over the years many renowned artists have called SFAC their home and today features a wide range of practicing artists covering mediums from painting, sculpture, photography, film, graphic design, architecture and more.
For more information: email: Santa_Fe_Art_Colony@yahoo.com
Participating Artists: Bill Neal, Damien David, Dawn Arrowsmith, Diane Cockerill, Don Lewis, Duke P Choi, Elena Phillips, Fatemeh Burnes, Gina Han, Greg Martin, H. George Herbert, Julie Arnoff, Kristine Augustyn, Laurel H. Paley, Lillian Abel, Lucy Jensen, Mary Bonic, Mike Vegas, Sharon Ryan, Stephen J Winawer, Stuart Needman, Sylvia Tidwell
2017 ArtWalk Ventura Global Artist Shamsia Hassani
ARTWALK VENTURA 2017
Saturday, October 7, 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, October 8, 12 – 5 pm
700+ artists / 30+ galleries
If you love art, you won’t want to miss ArtWalk Ventura 2017. ArtWalk Ventura is one of Ventura’s signature events, drawing thousands every year. Run by an all-volunteer group, this weekend event is fresh and festive and focused on Ventura’s authentic cultural community. Now in its 25th year ArtWalk Ventura is a fun, virtually free, self-guided tour of dozens of galleries, studios, pop-up venues and transformed PODS Containers in Ventura’s Westside Cultural District and Downtown.
2017 Featured Events including Bowl Hop where you can buy a beautiful, hand-crafted Bowl Hop bowl and receive a punch card that allows visits to participating restaurants during the weekend for a delicious sampling of their cuisines! A Bowl costs $25, with all proceeds benefiting Downtown Ventura’s Family Reconnection Program, which helps connect needy individuals with family or an appropriate support network.
2017 Global Artist of Distinction is Shamsia Hassani. Hassani is a graffiti artist from Kabul, Afghanistan who often paints women in Burqas/women in symbolic shapes, and fishes, symbols of the atmosphere flowing around her and her own life experiences.
2017 Venues include: PODS Containers, Vita Art Center, Ventura Visitors & Convention Bureau, Parson’s Galleries, Namba Performing Arts Space, Mainstreet Architects and many more.
ArtWalk Ventura provides a free shuttle sponsored by Kirby Automotive Group and Roadrunner Shuttle. Passenger pick-up is at the parking lot entrance to the Museum of Ventura County (100 E. Main Street in Downtown Ventura). The shuttle goes from the Museum to Bell Arts Factory, dropping you within a block of Stoneworks Studios. The shuttle then heads over to Art City on Dubbers Ave and then to the WAV (Working Artists Ventura) before it returns to the Museum.
Preliminary list of the artists and where they will be showing:
T Christian Gapen (Parson’s Gallery)
Hiroko Yoshimoto (Museum of Ventura County)
Pamela Pilkenton (NAMBA Performing Arts Space)
Scott Gordon (Bell Arts Factory)
Melodie Bird (Bell Arts Factory – Rise Studio 82)
Maribel Hernandez – 2017 Ventura Artist of Distinction (Bell Arts Factory – Tool Room Gallery)
Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales / Izzy Morones(Stoneworks Studios)
Chris Meugniot (Ventura Visitors & Convention Bureau)
Lili Miura (Buenaventura Gallery)
Jan Kolbusz (Qbit Gro, Inc.)
Brent Hanson (Brent Hanson)
Stephanie Hogue (Latitudes Fine Art Gallery)
Sue Pollack / Mary Perez (ArtWalk Coordinators)
Cassandra Tondro (PODs container)
Cathy Immordino (PODs Container)
MB Hanrahan (Bee Cause PODs Gallery/City of Ventura)
Vonder Gray (WAV Gallery & Studios)
Jen Livia (Red Brick Gallery)
Michelle Kemick (Bell Arts Factory – Rise Studio 82)
Joanne Duby (Ventura Botanical Gardens)
Kathy Ikerd (Buenaventura Gallery)
Laura Rosencranz (D.A. Davidson & Co. Gallery)
Michele Foster (Ventura County Interface Children and Family Services)
Robert Wainscott and Dan Flowers (Working Artists Ventura (Wav) )
Stephen Babcock and Lorien Rennie (The Corner of 53 & Grrr)
Darlene Roker (Buenaventura Art Association gallery)
Artist Erika Lizée creates large-scale installation in Pierce College Solo Show
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