Member News-Colleen Kelly

Colleen M. Kelly's wonderful whimsical art installation will be celebrated on Sunday, January 29, 2 to 5 pm. Anyone attending will be able to put their dreams and wishes into a little bottle which will hang as part of the exhibition! It will happen rain or shine! Bring the whole family, bring a picnic, or just bring yourself. The installation is inside the landmark Streamline Moderne gas station, with a sweet little park wrapped around it. It is totally cool! Opening reception Sunday January 29, 2017 @ 2:00-5:00pm. It will be up through the end of April. 2017.

Colleen M. Kelly
www.ColleenMKelly.com

"Dream Portal: Once Upon a Time" Information:

Exhibition Opening: Sunday, January 29, 2017 , 2:00-5:00pm  

It is illuminated at night.

Exhibition: Jan 29,2017-April 30, 2017

Daily Hours: 24/7

Location: Adam's Square Mini-Park Gas Station

Address: 1020 E. Palmer Ave. Glendale 91205

Phone: (805) 965-7247

Website: http://www.adamshill.org/

Member News-Minga Opazo

Reception 2016

All photos by Monica Wiesblott

Member News-Monica Wiesblott

Inkspot member Monica Wiesblott

was juried into 

ICONIC:BLACK PANTHER 

Fifty years of an iconic legacy in American history will be celebrated in the group art exhibit ICONIC: Black Panther. The exhibit opens October 7, 2016 at the American Steel Studios in Oakland, California and closes November 6, 2016. The Black Panther Party was a catalyst for a nationwide ground swell in the 1960s in African American neighborhoods to empower their community by creating free food programs, free clinics and more. The exhibit will feature over forty artists from the Bay Area and nationwide of all races. Celebrity supporters include Sway Calloway, Danny Glover, Danny Simmons and Fab 5 Freddy. The show is produced by SEPIA Art Collective.

" Angela, Charlotte, Barbara, Kathleen"
Battleship Linoleum, 2016

Member News- Rosemarie Gebhart & Monica Wiesblott

Inkspot members Rosemarie Gebhart and Monica Wiesblott 

were both accepted into the 103rd exhibition of the California Society of Printmakers

Rosemarie C. Gebhart's "Into the Woods" a Solar Plate etching

Monica Wiesblott's "Maud" a battleship linoleum and woodcut piece

Member News-Monica Wiesblott

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Play: Open Call 2016

A THEMATIC COMMUNITY-BASED BIENNIAL 
FEATURING WORK BY 300 ARTISTS
On view from August 18 to September 18, 2016
Opening Reception August 14 from 2 to 5pm

Inkspot Member-Monica Wiesblott has a piece included in this exhibition
Juried by Scott Canty

Member News-Colleen Kelly

 On View | August 13 - September 16, 2016   

Opening Reception 

August 13, 6-9pm                                                                                                           

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Member News-Bay Hallowell

Here is a lovely article about the exhibit: HERE

Member News- Center for the Arts Eagle Rock

OPENING RECEPTION  Sunday, April 17th from 6-8 PM

Invited image: Clovis Blackwell, "Silicate Sea", Serigraph, 20"x26"

Artists: Judith Amdur, David Avery, Clovis Blackwell, Joan Dix Blair, Mary Sherwood Brock, Karen Brussat Butler, CathyJean Clark, Judy Dekel, Lise Drost, Beth Fein, Karen Fiorito, Kirsten Flaherty, Susan Gesundheit, Dorothy Grow, Dirk Hagner, Bay Hallowell, Linda Lyke, Kathryn Maxwell, Diane McLeod, Irena Raulinaitis, Marianne Sadowski, Masha Schweitzer, Katherine Sheehan, Noriko Uriu, Joseph Vorgity, Sylvia Walters, Monica Wiesblott, Michele Winkler, Pamela Zwehl-Burke

CENTER FOR THE ARTS EAGLE ROCK 2225 Colorado Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90041 phone: 323-561-3044  www.cfaer.org

Jewish Community Center in Santa Barbara

Several Inkspot members are included in this new exhibition 

with the Santa Barbara Printmakers

at the 

Jewish Community Center in Santa Barbara

Opening reception April 7th 5-7pm

Art Around Santa Barbara

Save The Date- November 6th 2015

~ SAVE THE DATE ~ Friday November 6th inkspots Opening Reception During First Friday Art Walk 5 - 8 pm

We the members of the inkspots are hereby cordially inviting you to the Opening Reception for our annual exhibit of new work. For the first time in our 9 years, we will be holding  a FREE DRAWING for one of you to win a limited edition of our folio, all 13 originals! Join us at the reception and arrive early to enter the drawing for a chance to win a complete set of 13 ORIGINAL limited edition hand pulled prints.  A wonderfully diverse set of original art from 13 of the talented printmakers of the inkspots. All those who enter, but do not win, will also have an option to purchase one of the two additional folios available for sale. Hope to see you and your friends at the opening. 643 A Project Space 643 North Ventura Avenue Ventura, CA 93001

Focus On The Masters Event with The Inkspots!

Focus on the Masters kicks off its 2015-16

 Artist Spotlight season on Nov. 7

1 fish, 2 fish, 3 fish by Judy Gibbs

Focus on the Masters kicks off its 2015-16 Artist Spotlight season on Nov. 7 in the Screening Room of Brooks Institute in Ventura.  The Spotlight interview will feature the inkspots.  Founder Virginia Furmanski will be joined by Bay Hallowell and Inés Monguió in a panel discussion led by Dr. Judy Larson.   The inkspots were formed in 2007 by Virginia who explains that the group is greater than the sum of its parts.  “We take classes together.  We learn new techniques.”

Four Ventura artists interested in printmaking formed the original inkspots group in 2007 by pooling their resources and creating a printmaking studio at the Sea Breeze Gallery in Ventura.  The inkspots of San Buenaventura are a group of artists dedicated to creating original prints using a variety of techniques including etching, collagraph, linocut, monoprint, monotype, woodblock, and digital manipulation.

Spotlight interviews are free to FOTM Members, $10 for general public, $5 students and seniors.

Immediately following the interview guests will gather at 643 A Project Space for the AfterGLOW Fundraising Event.  Paid reservations are required for the AfterGLOW: $25 for FOTM members and $35 for non-members.   An exhibit of works by inkspots artists will run from November 6 through December 19 at 643 A Project Space.

Tickets for both the panel discussion and the AfterGLOW are available online at:  www.FocusOnTheMasters.com or by calling 653.2501.

Also during the First Friday ArtWalk  on Nov.6  the inkspots will have an opening reception from  5:00—8:00 p.m. 643 A Project Space, 643 N. Ventura Ave.

A free drawing for the inkspots 2015 Folio will take place at the 

Opening Reception at 7:00 p.m.

Opening October 1st 2015-Channing Peake Gallery

Several Inspot members were juried into this exhibition 

curated by John Grecco

Beverly Decker

Ginny Furmanski
Rosemarie C Gebhart

Bay Hallowell

Colleen Kelly

Monica Wiesblott

Colleen Kelly in Print

Colleen M Kelly: "Dressed"

Like paper dolls from the latter days of Mad Men, altered by a presence of physical graffiti, the monotypes with chine collé in Colleen M. Kelly's disarming series Naked Under Her Clothes are subversive and subtle, sexy but not sexual, traditional and unconventional, subliminal and right there on the surface. What appear to be expressive nudes rendered in a language of gestural, eccentric line drawing, draped in transparent or translucent retro fashions, is in fact nearly the opposite. The nudes did come first -- but in these prints, they exist on top of the clothes, hovering over the garments even as they occupy them. This paradoxical and slightly hallucinatory format is both the literal result of the chine collé print studio process that produced them, and the conceptual consequence of the political circumstances that inspired them -- plus a healthy dose of serendipity and resourcefulness in creative problem-solving.


In the case of Naked Under Her Clothes, the context of creation and the particulars of process are even more salient than usual to the meaning of the work -- integral in fact. She had been working for some time on these charming, slightly eerie nude studies, in the vein of Picasso's expressive single-line Vollard Suite etchings or even the whimsical near-abstraction of John Lennon's own drawings. At a certain point, Kelly was unexpectedly confronted with the need to comply with a nudity ban at the county art gallery in Santa Barbara where she was planning to exhibit them. Naked Under Her Clothes thus came to represent a response to this outrage, tapping into her deep and enduring feminist roots along with her sense of irony and humor. And all of this is contained not only in the visual language of her images, but in the serendipitous method by which she was able to construct them.

Vintage dress-making patterns were, oddly enough, quite plentiful in the print shop where she works. They were commonly salvaged for the tissue paper, while the envelopes printed with quirky and colorful sketches of the clothes were discarded. The plate sizes of Kelly's nudes is generally small, under six inches, and it turned out that the models on those envelopes were about the same size as her figures. The idea took hold rather quickly, and Kelly began "dressing" her figures accordingly. But what began as a political workaround soon took on unique formal imperatives and an inner life of its own. Although the "dressed" figures constitute a self-contained series, Kelly often chooses to show them in pairs or otherwise matched up with the original nudes in their birthday suits. This generates among other insights, the realization that the same anatomical armature is capable of telling wildly different stories depending on what they are wearing; and furthermore, one can see the same nude wearing different outfits and yet barely recognize her even when it's pointed out -- just like in real-life fashion.

On most of Kelly's prints, the chine colle᷇ "escapes the matrix" -- a term with a wonderful semiotic expansiveness simply indicating that the applied image sits beyond the frame created by the edges of the etched plate. Cheeky gingham frocks, crisp trouser pleats, sweeping chiffon ballgowns, flowing scarves, stockinged legs and elegantly shod feet unfurl over the threshold. Sometimes arms and legs are all that appear from the pattern, leaving the nude undressed save for boots or a charming hat like in that old Randy Newman song. The visual effect is assertive and eccentric, providing the image with a sense of movement and narrative emotionality. In a sense it's really another kind of matrix altogether that they are escaping -- the frame of civic dominion, conservatism, and body shaming that had threatened to trap them in a quagmire of misunderstanding.

Naked Under Her Clothes opens Saturday, June 27, 6-9pm, at 
Gallery 825in West Hollywood, and continues through July 24.

See the whole article and additional images here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shana-nys-dambrot/colleen-m-kelly-escaping-_b_7607438.html

Member News-Colleen Kelly

Inkspot Member Colleen Kelly

Opening reception at Gallery 825

Los Angeles, CA

VITAL at Westmont Ridly Tree Museum of Art

Inkspot Member Bay Hallowell's 

 two monoprints from my Marginalia series were accepted for 

VITAL, the annual tri-county juried exhibition at the Westmont-Ridley Tree Museum of Art 

May 21-June 20, 2015

Opening Reception & Awards on Thursday, May 21, 4-6 p.m.

Art Opening at Indigo in Santa Barbara May 7th 2015

Inkspot artist Rosemarie Gebhart will be showing at

Indigo in Santa Barbara

Opening April 12th In Santa Barbara

Members of the Inkspots are included in this wonderful exhibition

opening April 12th in Santa Barbara

SB Tennis Club Opening Reception for The Inkspots

The following are images graciously provided by Asandra from the opening reception for the Inkspots at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club, curated by Susan Tibbles:

Artist Rosemarie Gebhart

Artist Karen Schroeder

Artists Christina Altfeld, Asandra and Leslie Plimpton