PRS NEWS -- November 2024
Happy Fall Everyone-There’s lots happening at the board level, including a board retreat for planning and big picture thinking this month. The exhibitions committee will be able to announce some upcoming exhibition opportunities soon. Thank you to all who participated in our Zoom webinar with the engineering fabricator for artists. More webinars and events are on the horizon. Please consider participating in one of our Second Sunday Studio Visits by PRS members. Hope to see you in a gallery or studio soon! Barry Beach PRS Board President
Screen capture of Rhbu Engineering's webinar from Oct. 22nd Photo by PRS Member Priyanka Rana |
Reminders to PRS members:
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BOARD COMMITTEE UPDATESEXHIBITIONS COMMITTEE
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Don't miss out on the events coming up! Museum visit:
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EVENTS 2025Our events calendar is beginning to build for 2025. Here are you few you should get in your calendar for the first quarter of the year! January 2025:
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March 2025: Look out for event emails with more information soon! |
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MEMBER NEWSTom Krempa & Briona HendrenTwo of our North Bay-based members were selected to show work in the True North exhibition at the di Rosa Center of Contemporary Art. True North is di Rosa’s biennial juried exhibition of artwork by North Bay artists living or working in Marin, Napa, Solano, or Sonoma counties. This iteration of True North was juried by Lisa Crallé, artist, curator, and Founder & Director of Personal Space in Vallejo, CA; Reniel Del Rosario, artist; and Justin Wyckoff, art conservator and writer. The Open Reception will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2024 (details below), and will be on view November 16, 2024 – February 16, 2025. For more information about this exhibition and the di Rosa: https://www.dirosaart.org/ and https://www.dirosaart.org/2024/07/open-call-true-north-2024/ Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 2024
Exhibition Dates: November 16, 2024 – February 16, 2025
Tom Krempa, Rocket Fish, 2023 encaustic mounted on steel rod in stone 7.25”x 10.75”x 5”
Tom Krempa, Rocket Fish (detail), 2023 encaustic mounted on steel rod in stone 7.25”x 10.75”x 5”
Briona Hendren, Seen Not Heard (from Baggage Series), 2021, cast iron, olive oil 9.5" x 12" x 2.5" |
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Kathleen kingGearbox Gallery in Oakland, CA is pleased to present the special exhibition Lost In Things in the Inner Room by Kathleen King. Lost in Things is a poem, a broken grid, a territory. As systems exploit and discard things as well as people, this installation asks the questions, “What are we made of, what connects us, what do we need?” Kathleen King gathers detritus from city streets, natural objects collected over years of adventuring, and items culled from her domestic environment. As in a derivé, the psycho-geographic game of wandering without purpose or destination, King’s willfully marginal sets of objects are arranged in meandering sequences. “An object is not an object; it is a witness to a relationship.” –Cecilia Vicuña For more information about this exhibition: https://gearboxgallery.com/lost-in-things-kathleen-king/ Location: Gear Box Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave. Oakland, CA Exhibition Dates: October 18- November 30 First Friday: November 1, 5-8pm Artists' Talk: Saturday, November 16th, 2pm
Kathleen King, Lost in Things, 2024, installation view, 8' x 8' x 8' |
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Annette GoodfriendAt the Vargas Gallery on the Mission College campus in Santa Clara, you will find the solo exhibition of Annette Goodfriend's work entitled Hybrid Ocean. This is a show of surreal sculpture: Oceanic critters evolving to escape warming waters, Starfish growing fingers to claw their way to safety, the coral is bleaching, growing feet to escape the heat, the giant kelp has become ambulatory to run from the overpopulation of urchins. For more information: https://www.annettegoodfriend.com Location: The Vargas Gallery Mission College Santa Clara, Gillmore Center, 3000 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Exhibition Dates: October 21-December 5, 2024
Annette Goodfriend, The Zooxanthellae Have Left the Building, 2024, Epoxy & Paint, 25"x25"x5"
Annette Goodfriend, Macrocystis Ambulataurus, 2024, Steel, Aluminum, Epoxy, Silicone Rubber, Magnets, 90"x128"x70"
Annette Goodfriend, Stellata Phalanges and the Evolutionary Escape (detail), 2023, Epoxy, Paint, Magnets, Dimensions Variable |
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Vicki Gunter & Marguerite ElliotTwp PRS members, Vicki and Marguerite were selected to be in the exhibition, Habitats, at the Abrams Claghorn Gallery in Albany. This is a showcase of five women artists: Laura Abrams (curator), Elizabeth Addison, Salma Arastu, Marguerite Elliot, Vicki Gunter. Each of the five artists included in this exhibition addresses the theme of habitats with a unique lens. The core is a shared and passionate interest in nature. The artworks express wonder and awe at the earth’s beauty, its precious inhabitants, and the palpable environmental threats faced by us all. Treetops to the ocean floor- mountains to the soil beneath earth's crust- every living thing calls the earth home. Biotic and abiotic things exist together to form a habitat, where flora and fauna live side by side in a symbiotic effort to survive. For more information: https://abramsclaghornshop.com Opening Reception: Saturday, Nov 9, 3-6pm Exhibition Dates: Nov 2-24, 2024 Location: Abrams Claghorn Gallery | 1251 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94705
Vicki Gunter, Sky Blues - Canary & Elephant Series, 2014, clay, underglazes, stains, glazes, antique bailing wire, steel plasma cut plate, Magnets 24 x 31 x 5 inches
Vicki Gunter, When Our Ship Comes In? - Canary & Elephant Series, 2017, clay, underglaze, glaze, wire, faux flora, ice cubes, Ship/Iceberg = 27.5 x 25 x 10 inches | Americana = 10 x 10 inches
Vicki Gunter, In Hot Water - Canary & Elephant Series, Clay, Stains, Underglaze, Glaze, Antique Bailing Wire Handle Teapot 10 x 11 x 5.5 cups 4 x 3 x 4-6 inches
Marguerite Elliot, Rift, Steel, Stones, 84" x 24" x 24"
Marguerite Elliot, Anima Mundi, Steel, Seed Pods, 84" x 24" x 24"
Marguerite Elliot, Suspended, 2024, paper pulp, pigment, grass, twigs, 10" x 4" x 4" (Part of a suspended installation) Photo Credit: Bing Guan |
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CAtherine DaleyLands and Symbiotic Futures The exhibition is focused on stories of land and soils and visions of the future, both ecological and cultural and prioritizes issues and solutions. Juried by Maru García, a Mexican, LA-based artist/chemist working across art + science + environment. The show includes a catalog, artist presentations on Zoom, panel discussion with conservationists, and awards. For more information: https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/13409738/lands-and-symbiotic-futures
Catherine Daley, After the Inferno: Pepperwood Preserve, 2018, Bronze, charred wood, granite, 1 6.5"H x 9.5"W x 6.5"L |
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Barry BeachBarry is in a group exhibition Autumn Showcase of Marin Open Studios at the Marin Art & Garden For more information: https://marinopenstudios.org/special-events/ Exhibition Dates: Oct 11 - Nov 10 Open: Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 11am - 4pm Location: Marin Art and Garden Center 30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ross, CA 94957
Barry Beach, From the Accumulations series, Reclaimed wood, foam and shells, 18” tall x 26” wide x 6” deep, 2024 |
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Kline SwongerKline Swonger's proposal and installation, Landscape Labyrinth, was selected for the Art for Planetary Health Initiative spearheaded and funded by the Fleet Science Center and Presby Foundation. This initiative was designed to support projects that engaged community members through artworks that explore ideas of planetary health and promote environmental consciousness. Five artists were selected to represent regions throughout the greater San Diego region. Swonger was selected to represent the City of National City. The installations that resulted from this project were recently showcased at the San Diego Fleet Science Center in October. Swonger's installation of the labyrinth is a collection of cyanotype prints of local plants on rocks created by individual community members within National City. Over the summer, six free cyanotype workshops were offered throughout National City. Cyanotypes are an eco-friendly contact print made through sunlight-sensitive chemicals, which result in a blue color around the object captured. During these workshops, conversations were facilitated around the environmental benefits of plants and wetlands, and what we can do to support planetary health. Local plant materials were collected and prints were made on rocks by community members used to make the larger labyrinth. Participants are invited to contemplate the rich biodiversity of natural elements within our environment and reflect on what role they play in supporting planetary health as they walk through the labyrinth. For more information: https://www.fleetscience.org/events/art-planetary-health
Kline Swonger instructing in one of the free cyanotype community workshops at Pepper Park, National City. Photo Credit: Amanda Digiovanni
Cyanotype prints on rocks from community workshops and prompts for participants to reflect on what they can do to promote planetary health
Landscape Labyrinth installation at the San Diego Fleet Science Center where participants were invited to walk and reflect on their role in environmental health |
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