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This is a press release from the Humboldt Arts Council:
Erin Lee Gafill: California Atmosphere
William Thonson Gallery, June 4-July 24
In a series of abstracted landscape works, Big Sur artist, Erin Lee Gafill, explores the interplay of Land, Sea, and Sky on the northern California coast. As opposed to depicting what is seen and observed, these paintings are a reverent response to the transcendent grandeur of the environment. The work will include small observed studies, painted on location and over-sized studio works responding to that observational work; a call and response of visual and spiritual inspiration. Gafill’s artistic journey is in a direct line from her great-great[1]grandmother, artist Jane Gallatin Powers, Powers grew up in Sacramento, just after the Gold Rush. Powers studied at the Mark Hopkins institute in San Francisco, and subsequently embarked on a life in the arts in Italy and France, where she abandoned California Impressionism for European Modernism. Gafill’s grand-parents, Bill and Lolly Fassett built Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur, where Erin was raised. The influence of her creative ancestors, the rugged natural environment of Big Sur, where she lives, and the need for “making do” in her isolated community inspired her life in the arts. Besides Erin’s original artwork, this exhibition will include a contextual installation of historic artifacts and original artwork from her unique background.
Kit Davenport, Untitled, Ceramic, Epoxy, Paint
Cloud Vessel Kit Davenport: New Sculpture and Drawing
Artworks are vessels, containers for meaning; clouds: nebulous, mutable, evanescent. Arcata artist Kit Davenport will present sculptures and works on paper created since 2019. Davenport’s modestly-scaled sculptures, made primarily of ceramic (along with epoxy medium, wood and paint), combine forms that allude to both human artifacts (often a cup or bowl) and biological or physical processes and structures. Layered, eroded color and simple geometric imagery on surfaces introduce an element of time as well as a conversation between surface and form.
Jim McVicker: Recent Humboldt County Landscape Paintings in Gouache
In December of 2021 after seeing works by other painters in gouache, I decided to give them a try. For the past 20 years I have worked off and on with watercolors so I was anxious to try another water base medium. From the first painting I did with gouache I felt a very strong connection with the medium. Watercolor required lots of patience in order to save the white of the paper for the lights, but gouache being opaque allowed me to approach the work as I do with oils, yet it has a completely different feel. Immediately I was in love and jumped in head first heading out doors to many places I’ve painted oils over the years and seeing everything as new, fresh and exciting, full of discovery with a new medium.
Rotunda Gallery & Floyd Bettiga Gallery
Museum Store/Permanent Collection Gallery
Visit the Museum Store for a selection of gifts and merchandise inspired by the artwork on view by Morris Graves, Glenn Berry, Melvin Schuler and Romano Gabriel. The Museum Store carries a wide selection of posters, contemporary art books, cards, exhibition catalogs, children’s books, note pads, tote bags, jewelry, wine glasses, and coffee mugs. Humboldt Arts Council Members receive a 10% discount on all merchandise in the store.
Homer Balabanis Gallery/Humboldt Artist Gallery
Venture into the Humboldt Artist Gallery in the Morris Graves Museum of Art—the perfect place to find that unique, original gift. The gallery features many exceptional Humboldt County artists currently working in our region. Designed as an artist cooperative, the gallery features local artists working in a variety of media from representational and abstract paintings, prints, jewelry, photographs, and ceramics.
The Morris Graves Museum of Art, located at 636 F Street, Eureka is open to the public noon-5p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults; $2 for seniors (age 65 and over), military veterans, and students with ID; children 17 and under free; Families with an EBT Card and valid ID receive free admission through the Museums for All initiative, Museum members are free. Admission is always free for everyone on the first Saturday of every month, including First Saturday Night Arts Alive!, 6-9 p.m.
To ensure the safety of our staff, volunteers and visitors we recommend that guests continue to wear masks inside the Morris Graves Museum of Art.
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