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JANUARY
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HUMBOLDT ARTS
COUNCIL MEMBER EXHIBITION
December 13 – January 21, 2007
Tom Knight and Anderson Galleries
The annual member show is a juried exhibition designed to highlight the
fabulous art being produced by our artist members. As always, this exhibit
is eclectic, surprising and enjoyable.
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"Graffiti Girl "
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ORR MARSHALL RETROSPECTIVE:
A Bridge to Japan
December 10 - February 11, 2007
Thonson Gallery
After studying with
Josef Albers at Yale, then teaching in the Bay Area, Orr Marshall received
a Japanese government scholarship to study at the National University of
Fine Arts in Tokyo and lived in Japan for
five years. His art in various media often draws upon traditional and
modern aspects of Japanese culture to reinterpret them from a personal
viewpoint. The painting "Graffiti Girl," his imaginary take on
the current Japanese urban scene, was included in an exhibition at the
reopened M.H. de Young Musuem in San Francisco in
2005, and will be among the wide range of works selected from his Japan
days up to the present.
Exhibition sponsored by Tomo Japanese Restaurant
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WORKS IN IRON
BY FREDERICK HAZARD
January 6 - June 30
Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden
A sculpture garden
installation highlighting the found-object iron sculptures of Frederick
Hazard.
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MORRIS GRAVES
& ART OF THE NORTHWEST
Continous through the year
Homer Balabanis Gallery
Come explore the work
of Morris Graves from the Humboldt Arts Council’s
Permanent Collection. Enhance your interpretation of the artworks on
display by perusing the new Interactive CD-ROM The Life & Art of Morris Graves. This educational
tool allows the visitor to view a selection of artwork, the Loleta Studio of the artist, and to hear interviews
from his friends and colleagues.
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MEET MORRIS: An
Introduction Through His Art
January 6 - February 25
Youth Gallery
This exhibition
highlights the career of Morris Graves with prints, quotes and interpretive
materials. As part of the Youth Gallery program, this exhibition explores
Graves’ fascination with the unconscious as subject in his work, and
illustrates the influences, including his childhood that formed his artist
career.
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FEBRUARY
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"Bright Side"
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INTERIOR
HISTORIES
BY AMY BOUSE
February 3 - March 25
Tom Knight Gallery
Amy Bouse
draws from a study of human psychology and anatomy: the way forms fit
together and divide, evolve and decay. The transitory nature of human
beings, both body and soul, continues to fascinate
her. Bouse begins with a concept or narrative
that develops throughout the painting process. Interpretations of these
initial ideas evolve, departing from external appearances to concentrate on
abstract forms. The resulting images refer to the body's permeable yet resilient
flesh—and to systems this flesh hides.
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SURVEILLANCE
BY SHERRY KARVER
February 3 - March 25
Dr. Richard and Elizabeth Anderson Gallery
Sherry Karver, a critically acclaimed artist well known for
her photo-based oil paintings, explores in her art a variety of themes
connected to the human experience. They generally revolve around the
understanding that to be human is to be “collectively alone.” Quite the
opposite of posing a hopeless or resigned response to this condition,
however, Karver offers the viewer a glimpse of
the possibility for a spiritual awakening. Through her works’ haunting
sense of movement, and the spontaneous and random intersecting of
strangers, the images convey our individual voyages and become a metaphor
for life where everyone is together, yet alone.
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"Three Little Girls
with Smokey Leaves" By Diana Schoenfeld,
Grand Prize Winner, 2006
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6TH ANNUAL
NORTHWEST EYE
Regional Photography Competition
& Exhibition
February 15 - April 8
Thonson Gallery
A five-state regional
fine art photography competition and exhibition.
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MARCH
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YOUTH
ART MONTH
March 3 - March 31
Youth Gallery
Youth Art Month (YAM)
is an annual observance each March to emphasize the value of art and art
education for all children and to encourage public support for quality
school art programs. Established in 1961, YAM provides a forum to support
art education because it develops self-esteem, appreciation of the work of
others, self-expression, cooperation with others, and critical thinking
skills.....all vital to the success of our future leaders, our
children.
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APRIL
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"Into Tumucumaque"
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LINEAR EXPRESSION
BY DEBORAH CORSINI
April 5 - May 20
Tom Knight Gallery
Deborah Corsini has been weaving for over 30 years and is
currently a studio artist exhibiting her work nationally. She holds a
Masters in Textiles from San
Francisco State University. This exhibition
highlights her bold, graphic line, zigzag stripes and scalloped selvedges
which are striking characteristics of the wedge weave. Instead of weaving
perpendicular to the warp, as is usual for tapestry, wedge weave is an
eccentric weaving technique where the wefts are woven at an angle.
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HUMBOLDT ARTS
COUNCIL PERMANENT COLLECTION
April 5 - May 13
Anderson
Gallery
As part of the Humboldt
Arts Council’s 2007 “Adopt a Masterpiece”
program, this exhibition highlights recent acquisitions to the permanent
collection.
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HUMBOLDT STATE
UNIVERSITY ELEMENTARY EDUCATION CREDENTIAL
CANDIDATES
April 7 - April 29
Youth Gallery
This exhibition
features the work of the Elementary Education Credential Candidates who are
graduate students in the last step to becoming elementary school teachers.
Besides learning the eight studio habits of mind, they learned ways to
infuse art across the curriculum.
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REDWOOD ART
ASSOCIATION
April 19 - May 27
Thonson Gallery
Juried exhibition from
Humboldt County’s oldest artist’s
association.
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MAY
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MONART DRAWING
SCHOOL
May 5 - June 30
Youth Gallery
Sixth Annual Student
Exhibition of works created by four to twelve year olds. Subject matter
includes drawings from three-dimensional objects, animals, still-lifes, and figure studies. Students use a variety
of drawing media. The artwork will reflect the drawing method
developed by Mona Brookes. The method teaches that anyone can draw,
regardless of age, artistic experience, or so-called inherent talent. Monart drawing techniques have been published and
received national attention in Drawing with Children and Drawing with Older
Teens and Adults.
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BLACK, WHITE
& COLOR
BY ANNIE MURPHY-ROBINSON
May 24 - July 1
Dr. Richard and Elizabeth Anderson Gallery
Annie Murphy-Robinson exhibition highlights her large charcoal figurative
drawings. Murphy-Robinson’s work connects with
the view by addressing issues of the human condition. She attempts to
attain this through self-portraiture and through portraiture of her family.
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DAY TO DAY
BY KAREN DOTEN
May 31 - July 15
Tom Knight Gallery
Using encaustic with
graphite on canvas, Karen Doten’s series of
paintings seek to combine everyday occurrences and actions with everyday
visual experiences, the latter perceived through changes in light, color
and structure. Nuance and subtlety also play a prominent role in her choice
of visual material for these paintings.
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JUNE
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EXPRESSIONS IN
HANDMADE PAPER
BY THE DECKLE EDGE
June 2 - July 22
Thonson Gallery
The Deckle Edge Group
was founded fourteen years ago by four artists who were using handmade
paper as a fine art medium. It was not a medium that was part of the
mainstream, but they saw it as a way to expand their artistic expression.
They decided it would be interesting and beneficial to meet and share
information while visiting each other’s studios.
Since that time, when Andrea Tucker-Hody
initiated the idea, and she, Joan Rhine and Jim Meilander
gathered at Susan Hersey’s studio, the group has
expanded to nine. It continues to evolve as members focus on other artistic
endeavors and new people join. The group shows its work together from time
to time. Each artist has a unique way of using the medium, offering a wide
diversity of artistic possibilities.
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JULY
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ART BANKS
July 7 - August 26
Youth Gallery
The Art Banks Traveling
Exhibition and Outreach Program is a partnership between the Humboldt Arts
Council and the Humboldt Docent Council. The Art Banks Program began
in 1966 when first President of the H.A.C., Dr. Richard Anderson, designed
the program to educate elementary school students about art. This
exhibition highlights the work exhibited each spring in Humboldt County
schools.
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"Extinction Series -
Dusky Seaside Sparrow"
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PRESENCE &
ABSENCE
K.A. SHEEHAN
July 7 - August 19
Anderson Gallery
The artwork of K.A.
Sheehan focuses on images of the natural world which are combined with
signifiers of the man-made world including architectural elements,
navigational systems, scientific diagrams, and decorative patterns. The use of these motifs address concerns about finding a
space in which nature and man co-exist. Focusing on subject matter of
endangered and extinct birds and animals, this exhibition explores the idea
of healing our damaged relationship with the environment.
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"Recalling a Fond
Memory"
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DANCING IN THE
RAIN
BY CHALDA MALOFF
July 26 - September 9
Thomas Knight Gallery
Chalda Maloff's art is
about the interplay among parts of a whole in a particular environment. As
a Human Ecologist, she tends to view all objects in terms of their effects
upon one another. Even in the unreal world of her abstracts, the laws of
physics still apply: light still reflects off shiny surfaces, moisture
still condenses where hot and cold collide. The edge of a shape or boundary
line assumes pivotal significance in her art as they mark difference thus
establishing classifications. The appearance of spontaneity in her art
pieces is an illusion. Working slowly and methodically she digitally builds
the forms and shapes, allowing them to interact at their own pace.
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AUGUST
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IMAGES OF WATER
21st Annual Photography Competition
& Exhibition
Sponsored
by City of Eureka
August 2 - August 27
Thonson
Gallery
Celebrating 21 years of
creative visions of water, this annual photography competition highlights
the inspiring beauty of water.
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"Switch Back
Switch"
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SUBLIME
RE-IMPLACEMENT
J. MICHAEL SIMPSON
August 30 - October 7
Dr. Richard and Elizabeth Anderson Gallery
J. Michael Simpson has
been making oil paintings that contain images of segments of rocky terrain
and white water rivers from mountain areas. As the worked progressed he
began to associate personal life events with the geologic and hydrologic
drama within these places. In the discovery of sublime senses, the
paintings have become poetic metaphors for sublime moments.
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SEPTEMBER
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HUMBOLDT ARTS
COUNCIL'S ANNUAL ART AUCTION
September 1 - September 22
Pre-bid on artwork and
items auctioned at the Gala on September 22nd.
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AUTHORS AND
ILLUSTRATORS FESTIVAL
September 1 - October 28
Youth Gallery
As part of the Annual Children’s Author Festival, select works from winning
illustrators are on exhibit to demonstrate the processes of illustration in
children’s literature.
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"Sabine Baring
Gould"
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SCROLL
PAINTINGS OF THE LOST
BY DANIEL NORTH
September 15 - October 28
Thonson Gallery
In Daniel North’s travels and subsequent paintings, he has
explored the length and breadth of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to the Rio Grande. Searching for a distinctive
premise in his work, his explorations of the culture of the communities he
visits reside in a shadow of natural wonders. The majority of the work is
landscape-based and never parades figures across the composition,
instead he paints their general presence or absence through the use of
symbols.
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OCTOBER
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13TH ANNUAL
JUNQUE ARTE COMPETITION & EXHIBITION
October 4 - November 25
William Thonson
Gallery
Designed to celebrate artistic creativity on the North Coast and heighten
the awareness to renewable resources in the artmaking
process, each artwork in this juried exhibition is made from 100% recycled
materials.
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Mary K. Anderson
Julia Bednar
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"THE RAL
CELEBRATES TWENTY YEARS"
REPRESENTATIONAL ART LEAGUE
October 18 - December 9
Dr. Richard and Elizabeth Anderson Gallery
The coalition of
realist artists celebrates 20 years of creating realistic artwork in Humboldt County.
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NOVEMBER
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"PHS 696"
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LAYERS +
UNDERCURRENTS
BY THOMAS MORPHIS
November 3 – December 9
Tom Knight Gallery
Thomas Morphis’ watercolors suggest contemporary
structural forms, somewhere between sculpture and architecture represented
on a 2-D surface. They are based on preparatory sketches done in collage. They
may be called “architectonic” because of their apparent structural
connections and supports, and their many rectilinear shapes, rising against
gravity from an implied horizontal ground line. They are synthesized,
invented images suggesting not only structure, balance, and solidity but
also subtlety, vitality, discovery and optimism.
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HOLIDAY
SALE
November 3 – December 30
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DECEMBER
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REFLECTIONS: ON
CROSSING
BY ANNE SUBERCASEAUX
December 2 - January 20, 2008
Thonson Gallery
Crossing the Oakland Bay
Bridge on her commute to and from
work, the bridge span, skies, and views of downtown San
Francisco and the Port
of Oakland are
familiar sites. Subercaseaux notices the play of
light and shadow on the pavement during the drive across the span. This
current series of paintings, "Reflections: on Crossing",
represents this interplay of the bridge structural elements with cast
lights and shadows. Patterns cast from girders and cables onto the surface
present abstract imagery to incorporate in her art. Working with these
bridge reflections allows her to focus on detail areas within a broader
view, seeing abstractions in closer proximity. This process begins with the
initial excitement of seeing and capturing compositions, ultimately leading
to studying and painting them in the studio.
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HAC MEMBER
EXHIBITION
December 21 - January 27, 2008
Tom Knight and Anderson Gallery
The annual member show
is a juried exhibition designed to highlight the fabulous art being
produced by our artist members. As always, this exhibit is eclectic,
surprising and enjoyable.
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