SS95: Joyce Savre

From the exhibition Time and Space

Words and Water, 48" x 36" , Acrylic on canvas

 
Comments by Joyce Savre:
The expansiveness of water is a spiritual event: the ocean is full of possibility, goes forever and suggests an eternity. You see the ocean, and you are never the same. If you swim in a lake or the ocean or a river, that place is a part of you forever. And though it is the same ocean, the same lake the same river, we know it is forever changing and we are moved by that too.

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SS95: Joyce Savre

SS95: Daniel Phill

Traverse, 60” X 48”, Acrylic on canvas.

Comments by Daniel Phill:

This painting "Traverse" was submitted
to the show "Time and Place in the 21st Century" because it is a reflection of where and when it was painted. This piece is about the San Francisco Bay Area at the beginning of this century. It is a painting that is about an evolution and continuation of abstraction in the Bay Area. Updated and distilled (from what has come before it) into a new object for the 21st century. From roots in the 20th century, abstract painting has taken hold as a major force in the visual arts, not only in the S.F. Bay Area, but in places around the world.
My paintings are a process of exploration and discovery, including references to the land from an aerial view. A sense of place is established through abstracting the landscape as seen from above. This gives a sense of capturing time on canvas - by synthesizing and re-interpreting the view that was seen at the time the work was painted.
I believe the most complex emotions can be evoked from the simplest of forms, merging and emerging, interlocking and dividing. My vocabulary of color, shape, and texture are given form through movement. The gestures, marks, and scribbles found throughout my paintings are remnants of a process and journey, rather than simply compositional elements on a two-dimensional surface. The paintings evolve over the course of many layers of paint, obliterating and revealing past histories of thought and action.

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SS95: Daniel Phill

Studio Shop 95 Year Exhibition: Jon Wessel

This is the first blog entry of our 95th anniversary exhibition: Time and Place. Artist Jon Wessel created these two small pieces as part of a series. Nine are on exhibit at the Studio Shop.

Statement by Jon Wessel:

These small works (4” x 4” and 5” x 5”) were created for a 2009 exhibit entitled “Road Trip” and continue my interest in using acrylic, graphite, and found paper on panel.

I used maps and old postcards for this work. I was interested in time and place captured by these vintage images. There is something nostalgic and comforting about them. They remind us of adventure and good times; They ground us in the past. By sanding and marking these images, I also introduce an element of time passing - images are worn away, covered up, or faded.

Far from being pessimistic about the passing of time, this work reminds us of the beauty in the history of place.

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Studio Shop 95 Year Exhibition: Jon Wessel

We're finally getting a mural painted on the side of our building.  Nancy Torres of ArtAttack! is doing a fabulous job directing the project along with her art students and colleagues.  The scene will depict a girl swinging through time.  Come check out the progress before Nancy finishes this weekend.

Why should I worry about UV rays?

This is the first in a series of three brief articles about the danger of UV rays with artwork.

What are UV Rays?

Before you say, "Omigod, I don't want to read about science," don't worry because this will be quicker than putting on sunscreen to block those pesky UV rays. The above chart of the electromagnetic spectrum(remember high school science?) shows that UV rays are to the left of visible violet light, hence the name ultraviolet, and are in the direction of increasing energy. That's why UV rays are dangerous for sunburn and for fading of artwork even though they are only 3% of the sun's rays that reach the Earth.

Why should I worry about UV rays?