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Twenty-ninth Annual California Clay Competition Exhibit Reception: Friday, April 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Spring brings May flowers and The Artery's Annual California Clay Competition Exhibit. As part of the California Conference for Ad-vancement of Ceramic Art (CCACA), clay artists from every part of California fill our gallery with extraordinary ceramics. Our juror, Tif-fany Schmierer, chose thirty-nine pieces from twenty-seven ceramic artists. The show promises to surprise and delight you. You won't want to miss the opening reception on April 27, from 7 to 9 pm. The cash/gift certificate awards will be given at 8:00 p.m. Previ-ous award donors include The Artery of Davis; Individual donors: Pat and Gene Hill, Suppliers: Aftosa, Alpha Fired Art, Creative Ceramics and Glass,
East Bay Clay, La-guna Clay, Leslie Ce-ramics, In-dustrial Min-erals, Clay People, Clay Planet, Quyle Kilns Clay Com-pany, Asso-ciation of Clay and Glass Artists of California.
One more award, the People's Choice, will be an-nounced at the end of the exhibit, so come
during the month and cast a ballot for your favorite.
Ceramic piece by Douglas Kenny
ARTERY NEWSLETTER Spring to Autumn 2018
Volume 25 Issue 1
April 27 - May 25, 2018
Twenty-ninth Annual Cali-fornia Clay Competition Exhibit Reception: Friday, April 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m. June 1 - July 2, 2018
Lucy Della Rosa and Sharon McCallum Fiber Art Reception: Friday, June 8, 7:00-9:00 p.m. July 6 - 30, 2018
Marjan Kluepfel and Guests "Unraveled: 7 Threads" Fiber Art Reception: Friday, July 13, 7:00-9:00 p.m. August 2 - 27, 2018
Annual Studio Sale August 31 - Oct 1, 2018
Marie-Thérèse Brown Paintings Reception: Friday, September 14, 7-9 p.m. October 5 - 29, 2018
Susanne French Ceramics Reception: Friday, October 12, 7-9 p.m. November 2 - 25, 2018
Christopher Dewees "A Life Among Fishes: 50 Years of Japanese Fish Printing" Reception: Friday, November 9, 7-9 p.m.
Lucy Della Rosa and Sharon McCallum Fiber Art Reception: Friday, June 8, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Lucy and Sharon will be filling our gallery with weaving, scarves and hats. Lucy is primarily a weaver, but for this show she also explores differ-ent types of felting. With both types of textiles she plays colors against each other and enjoys the two very different approaches. One is designed with a methodical execution while the other is often planned as she proceeds with a much freer tech-nique. Lucy attended Ohio Wesleyan and gradu-ated with a BFA. She also did an independent study in Weaving and took a semester off to take classes in NYC at the New School for Social Re-search and Parsons School of Design. Sharon describes herself as a colorist, weaver, and designer. She enjoys painting with yarn to create modern pieces in unique colorations and textures. Much of her inspiration and passion comes from her early exposure to tapestry and her extensive travels around the world, especially Guatemala. Sharon attended UC Davis with a major In Environ-mental Design and apprenticed with a tapestry de-signer.
Marjan Kluepfel and Guests "Unraveled: 7 Threads" Fiber Art Reception: Friday, July 13, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Marjan joins six friends exhibiting a wide variety of fiber art. Marjan will be showing her art quilts and fabric sculptures of large 3D flowers and coral. These are amaz-ingly realistic. Her Titan Arum stands five feet tall. Here is the gor-geous bloom without the notorious aroma. The six artists joining Marjan
are: Bernita Dodge - silk painting; Debra Hosler - felted wool, collaged textiles, mixed media; Marjorie McWilliams - mono printed garments; Judy Coates Perez - mixed media textile; Louise Thompson Schiele - art quilts; and Martha Wolfe - art quilts. The gallery will be ablaze with color and creativity.
Marie-Thérèse Brown
Paintings Reception: Friday, September 14, 7-9 p.m.
Marie Brown is a most popular plein air painter. She states, “I love the sport of plein air painting — paring down my equipment, dressing for the weather, finding a good location and getting set up. I work quickly to capture the essence of a place and to create a foun-dation for the rest of the painting. . . Being in the mo-ment with nature and painting is the greatest of pleas-ures. Wherever I go I take my paints.” For her show, Marie painted multiple still lifes, using the same sub
ject but with different placements. She will also dis-play new plein air paintings from various California locations. Marie says that the more she paints the more she appreciates the beauty and the magnificent colors of our valley and farmlands. You will be de-lighted with her still lifes and all her adventures in the great outdoors as shown through her art. I
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Susanne French Ceramics Reception: Friday, October 12, 7-9 p.m.
Susanne French is a ce-ramic artist who lives and works in Merced, Cali-fornia. She holds a degree in Industrial De-sign from "Hochschule fuer Gestaltung" in Offenbach, Germany, as well as a M.A. in Studio Art from California State Univer-sity, Fresno. Susanne's ce-ramics include highly textured vessels and ab-stract figurative sculpture. Her work has been shown in many national and international exhibits.
Christopher Dewees "A Life Among Fishes: 50 Years of Japanese Fish Printing" Fish Prints Reception: Friday, November 9, 7-9 p.m.
This retrospective will have prints from 1969 through 2018, showing the evolution of Christo-pher's techniques and styles. He will also include reproductions on tiles, and prints on fabric. Chris is an uniquely talented Gyotaku artist and author. His incredible monoprint fish images are truly one of a kind, as each print is made from a real fish. His lat-est book, "Life Among Fishes" is a large format, 180-page book including over 100 of his fish prints as well as anecdotes, poems and short stories. If
you want to explore doing Gyotaku yourself, complete instructions are included. This fine book is available at The Artery. His Gyotaku style is traditional and deli-cate, with an emphasis on structure, printing and movement of fish and shellfish. Every type of fish is quite different and requires a different approach. Chris did graduate work in fisheries biology at Hum
boldt State University and earned a Ph.D. in Ecology at UC Davis. While doing his academic work he pur-sued the fish printing process as well as studying fish and fisheries themselves. He has been a Marine Fish-eries Specialist at UC Davis since 1972, serving as a link between the University of California and the state's commercial and recreational fishing industries. This show is truly unique, with stunning art that gives us a window into Chris's world of the fish.
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Robin Lynde counts as many as 75 lambs after
about 3 weeks
of lambing, so she wants you to know that there is plenty of "yarn in the
making." You can't help but be charmed by her "too cute for words" lamb photos. Visit her colorful website, www.meridianjacobs.com for all the details! Laura Morton will show her etchings, etching col-lages, notecards and gift cards during the Menlo Park Sidewalk Spring Art Stroll, April 20, 21 & 22 from 10am to 6pm on Friday & Saturday and from 10am to 5pm on Sunday. This will be on Santa Cruz Avenue between El Camino Real and Univer-sity Drive, Menlo Park. Diana Kwan an-nounces that the Capital Wood-carvers Associa-tion will hold their 47th Annual Woodcarving show on May 19 and 20 at the Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St., Sacra-mento. Sat. 9-5 and Sun. 9-4. There will be woodcarvings of many different styles, woodturn-ings, assorted woodcrafts and gourd art, as well
as books on these subjects. Vendors with wood, tools and gourds will be participating as well. Juried compe-titions in the various art forms join demonstrations and a silent auction. Lunch items will be available. For further information, please contact Diana Kwan [email protected] or (916) 392-4765 Marie-Thérèse Brown was featured at Pence Gallery in Davis for the month of February. Marie-Thérèse Brown’s exhibit, “Return to the Loire,” brought a bit of the French summer heat to wintry Davis. She also painted, with past member Susan Shelton, a mural at Markham Elementary School in Vacaville. Malaquias Montoya created the original design. The mural hon-ors Anne Starr, a beloved teacher and friend who passed away this year. mural honors Anne Starr, a beloved teacher and friend who passed away this year.
Rebecca Bresnick's Clayground Gallery had an exciting surprise visit from Governor Jerry Brown and his wife Anne Gust at the January opening reception of Greg-ory Cates's show. They enjoyed the show, the wine, and especially the dogs! They said they'll be back. Clay Sessions are on the schedule for the 2nd Saturday of the month (10:30-12:30). If you have your own group of at least 4 people, contact Re-becca to schedule a date for your group. Clayground offers monthly Kid Art Classes as well, taught by Kate Humphrey (Winters HS Art teacher) with a different medium and project each month. Check them out at https://www.clayground.biz Great shows are coming at The Clayground Gallery over the next few months: April is Mary Neri King (painting). May is Karen Fess (paintings). June is Shannon Moore (pyrography and sculpture). July is Steve Pro (wood and mixed media) and August is Sunshine Cobb
Artery Members in the News
See Heidi Bekebrede at the Davis Farmers Market every Saturday morning with her Paint-A-Pot Activ-ity booth. All ages are invited to select a piece of un-painted, hand-made pottery. You can sit and glaze your selection using up to 20 colors. Heidi
takes them to her studio and fires them to over 2000 degrees. The finished work is ready for pick up the next Saturday. The booth is open from 8 am to 1 pm. Anne Miller is participating in Photography Month, Sacramento, from April 7-May 18. The outstanding exhibit is at Ella K. McClatchy Library at 22nd and U St, Sacramento. Anne Miller and Diana Coleman collaborated on "Real Abstracts" using real-life photographs taken out of context. They illustrate that abstract beauty is found all around us if we look for it. A couple of Anne's images were used for the covers of Inside Sacramento Publications, April edition.
Adele Shaw will have a solo exhibition, “23.5º North: Color and Light from the Tropic of Cancer” at the Sparrow Gallery in Sacramento in May. Her work was created during a two-month painting residency in Baja California Sur. Adele states: “My paintings spark a sensory connection to the sights, smells and sounds of a place one has been. I love the natural environ-ment, I love water and sunlight." Opening reception is May 12, 6-9 p.m. There will be a free walk through and talk with the artist at 4pm. Closing reception will
be Friday June 1st, 6-9 pm. Sparrow Gallery is lo-cated at 1021 R Street, Sacramento, CA.
Artery Members in the News (continued)
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Deborah Lamoreux recently began a project that includes photographing and painting the ever changing orchards and mountains surrounding Winters, CA. "Orchards After The Storm" is an ex-ample of this emotive work, which will be in the gal-lery starting in May.
Linda Bird's new spring display
includes the "Dragon Fly's Gar-
den" tile, as well as the "Strips of Color" series, which are mixed medium pieces that include wood, metals, and art glass. You will love the transparent colors and intriguing combinations found in her work.
Linda Miller has new hearts and birdhouses, com-plete with delightful birds. These finely detailed wall hangings would enhance your home or your patio. Although this is far in the future, you can mark you calendar for the Crocker Holiday show, Thanksgiving weekend. Linda will have tons of person-alized orna-ments for dogs, kids, and fami-lies. The show will be at the Scottish Rite Center across from CSUS. For her new paintings Adele Shaw uses encaustic on wood to capture the energy and romance of water-falls. The Artery will also have Adele's works from her painting residency in Baja California Sur.
Look for Shannon Moore's functional work embellished with pyrograghy, such as spoons and wooden boxes. Some of her stunning work, from her recent Artery show, will be back in The Artery as well.
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