Member News-Bay Hallowell

Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara

Bay Hallowell “Chakra Chimes: Recent Monoprints” March 2 to April 13, 2012

Opening Reception Friday, March 2, 5-7 pm

1^st Thursday Reception, April 5, 5-8 pm

The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara is pleased to announce a new exhibition by Bay Hallowell, entitled “Chakra Chimes.” The public is invited to attend a festive opening reception with the artist on Friday, March 2^nd from 5-7 pm. A 1^st Thursday reception will be held on April 5^th from 5-8 pm, in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization.

Bay Hallowell will present a series of twenty colorful monoprints inspired by the chakras. Each monoprint is a unique, layered composition of vibrant colors and shapes. According to medieval texts from India, the chakras are seven energy centers located at various points on the spine, each associated with a particular color and sound. As visual equivalents of their invisible, shifting energies, some monoprints focus on one or two chakras, while others combine as many as six or seven. As a longtime student of yoga, meditating and musing on the chakras was a starting point for Hallowell’s explorations of shape, color, symmetry and asymmetry. These beautiful monoprints are built up over time, using oil-based inks and hand-cut plastic shapes on Plexiglas plates, and are printed on Rives BFK paper.

For thirty-two years, Hallowell created, taught, and supervised gallery, studio, and outreach programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. She has also taught in colleges and universities, written publications for museums and schools, and worked as an art museum consultant. As a student of painting and art criticism at Bennington College in Vermont, Hallowell studied with Jules Olitski, Lawrence Alloway, and Clement Greenberg. More recently, Siu Zimmerman introduced the artist to monoprint techniques at Santa Barbara City College’s Adult Education Program.

The Architectural Foundation is located in the historic Acheson House at the corner of Garden and East Victoria Streets, with the gallery entrance on Garden Street. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9 am to 2 pm, and by appointment. The Garden Street entrance is accessible by ramp.

Additional images are available upon request.

Press Contact: Nancy Clare Caponi

Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara

229 East Victoria Street

Santa Barbara, CA 93101

805-965-6307

www.afsb.org

www.bayhallowell.com

Thousand Oaks Art Association-Karen L Brown

Reflection 3

Linocut, chine colle, hand painting

 

Thousand Oaks Art Association 2012 Open Juried Show.

Juror: Katherine Chang Liu  

Thousand Oaks Art Association

TO Community Gallery

2331 Borchard Rd.

Newbury Park

February 2 - 25th

Reception: Sunday February 5th 1 to 4

 

Member News-Monica Wiesblott

International Exhibtion

*click on image to be linked to more information

Monica Wiesblott is one of 37 printmakers juried into
The Irish exchange exhibition between the Los Angeles Printmaking Society and the Black Church Print Studio (BCPS) Dublin, Ireland

Opening Thursday 12 January from 6.00-8.00pm
Exhibition runs from January 9 through January 28, 2012 at at Monster Truck Gallery, 4 Temple Bar, Dublin 2

AND

Monica Wiesblott also got juried into the

Traces, Marks and Fragments exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.

Her etching "The Gleaners" was selected.

Member News-Christina Altfeld

Hui No‘eau Annual Juried Exhibition 2012

January 7 – February 19, 2012
Juror: Allyn Bromley

Check out their website: http://huinoeau.com/

This image was Juried into this exhibition in Maui, Hawaii

AND

The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art's exhibition

Traces, Marks and Fragments

 January 20th-Feb 26th 2012

Exhibition information HERE

Member News-Karen L Brown

In Ventura, CA:

The Watcher by Karen L Brown

 

BAA Community Memorial Hospital

"Just Photos" Show

January 8, 2012- April 1, 2012

 

AND

 

In Austin, TX

Mono y Mono

January 10 - February 28 2012
Opening Reception: January 12, 7-8:30pm

Check out their website: http://www.womenprintmakers.com/

 

Congratulations Barbara Parmet!

Barbara Parmet

Measure for Measure
Harvard Exhibition
November 4 to December 22, 2011

Congratulations Karen L Brown

Art at the Jewish Community Center

Santa Barbara, California

Karen L. Brown received an Honorable Mention

for the above image 

This juried show is the first time that the 
Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center has hosted 
SB Printmakers, a unique art association. 
"We are excited to have the Printmakers exhibit their art in a juried show," 
says curator Lynn Holley. 
"Printmaking, in all its forms, is a special process that produces distinctive 
and often multi-layered and textured work, 
all which transcends regular painting and photography."