July 2010

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Summer Breezes and Fabulous Art
In This Issue
The Buenaventura Gallery: Susan Seaberry and Darlene Dewing
The Harbor Village Gallery: Kay Zetlmaier and David Orias
Community Memorial Hospital: "The BIG Show"
Workshops and Classes
Gallery Hours
Greetings!
 
Sometimes it takes a little patience to endure Ventura's summer morning fog, but we are often joyously rewarded with the brilliant skies and breezes of summer on the coast. Come down to the Buenaventura Art Association's galleries and discover the vibrancy, variety and affordability of art created by our local artists. Bring a little sunshine home and hang it on your wall! And remember, payment plans are always available.

For more information on these and future events, please visit our website at buenaventuragallery.org.

AT THE BUENAVENTURA GALLERY
700 East Santa Clara Street
Ventura, CA  805/648-1235



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Susan Seaberry


"Innocence and Experience:
The Figure in Art"


June 22-July 17, 2010

Reception:
Fri. July 9, 5-8 pm

Part independent rebel with intuitive talent and part designer with tendencies towards fashionista, Seaberry deliver her figures as characters from fabled tales whose human qualities relate to us as effortlessly as our own reflection.  Colorful, whimsical and poised with drama or intrigue, the subjects express strength and individuality, two values Seaberry honors and executes with grace. Click here for more information.


Stellamara Trio at the Buenaventura Gallery

Thursday, July 15 � 7-9 pm

Performing an intimate concert in celebration of Susan Seaberry's fine art exhibit. Stellamara is an internationally acclaimed world music ensemble based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This concert will premier new works with multi-instrumentalist and band member, Evan Fraser and co-founders Gari Hegedus and Sonja Drakulich. The music includes original and traditional folk songs from the Balkans, the Near East and America's roots. Stellamara's Sonja Drakulich is Susan Seaberry's daughter. stellamara.com


COMING SOON ...


Dewing imgDarlene Dewing

"Favorite Places"

July 20 - Aug. 14, 2010
Reception:
Sat. July 24
4-7 pm

Dewing explores western America with an adventurous goal; to find the next moment she will capture on paper. The thrill of the hunt calls for early morning drives, weekend get-aways and stepping into nature, away form the daily routine we keep ourselves busy with. Dewing knows to keep her eyes peeled and her camera at hand for the moment is not as obvious or easy to capture as you hope. "It might be something subtle and if you blink too soon or turn away, you just might miss it," observes the artist. The landscapes Dewing creates in pastels are more like nature portraits. She gathers information on the soul of a place and transfers its likeness to paper with buttery colors which volley between the definition of painting and drawing. This spirit is the moment Dewing hunts for. 
(Click here for more.)


First friday logoVisit with Featured Artist Susan Seaberry at the Buenaventura Gallery during
Ventura's First Friday Gallery Crawl
July 2, 5-8 pm.
(click here for a gallery map.)
AT THE HARBOR VILLAGE GALLERY
1591 Spinnaker Drive
Ventura Harbor Village (next to the big lawn)
Ventura, CA   805/644-2750



zetlmaier imgKay Zetlmaier

"Land and Sea, Our Beautiful Coastline"

Thru July 11, 2010

One is thrown into nature's adventures as their eyes are awakened touring Kay Zetlmaier's exhibit of lively oil paintings. Her works are full of movement and expression, coming fresh from the scene, illuminating her plein-air style. Warm and expressive brushstrokes reveal influences of Monet and Joaquin Sorolla. Framed California's coastlines are portrayed in full exposure with a range of passion and excitement from powerful, crashing waves to bright and serene vistas.
(Click here for more info.)


COMING SOON ...

Orias img"Reflecting on Waves"

Photographs by
David Orias


July 14 -August 8, 2010

Reception
Fri. July 16, 5-8 pm.

Southern California's waves are shown in their spectacular beauty through David Orias's lens. "Water is colorless, yet it can take on the colors of the light that is shown through it or reflected upon it." Orias's photographs display the complex beauty of waves and their colors, shades, and reflections with a harmonic touch of photographic mastery.  He chooses to photograph at dawn, capturing warm comforting colors, while using a slow shutter speed and camera motion, adding a unique and soft touch to his work. His photographs reveal waves in a full range of colors from oranges, reds, blues, turquoises, and more - reflections of the dawn, California's fires, and other atmospheric wonders. (Click here for more.)



At the Harbor Village Gallery's
Artisan Store


Lefkowitz imgFeatured Artisan: Wendy Lefkowitz
Prints and reproductions of watercolor and collage artist Wendy Lefkowitz will be featured through July at the Artisan Store at the Harbor Village Gallery.




KIDS CREATIONS! Free Art Classes for Kids
Every Sunday through September 5, 2010  Click here for more information.

PET PORTRAITS by Linda Cowell and Pamela Salem
Click here for more information.
AT COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Main Lobby and First Floor Corridors
147 N. Brent Street
Ventura, CA

CMH big img"The BIG Show"
Thru Sept. 4, 2010

Featuring the works of over 50 local artists.

Art in the Community!


Workshops and Classes Sponsored by BAA

Seaberry wkshop imgDrawing the Figure From A to Z
With Award Winning Artist Susan Seaberry

Saturday & Sunday, July 10-11
Saturday & Sunday, July 17-18

1pm to 4pm each day, at Ventura High School
(Room 20 - directly on Poli next to 2117)

Cost: $140 Members, $150 non-members.
One weekend: $70/members, $75/nonmembers.

Susan's four-session workshop will encompass figure and portraiture using basic mediums. There will be demonstrations, references to art history, and the use of  live clothed models. Beginning and intermediate levels are sure to benefit from Susan's energetic style and her guarantee of a fun and lively class.
 

CLICK HERE  for more information and to sign up for the workshop at either gallery or call during Open Gallery Hours. You can also pay online with PayPal.


GALLERY HOURS AND LOCATIONS
Buenaventura Gallery, 700 Santa Clara Street, Ventura CA
Open Tue-Fri, Noon-5 pm. Sat 11-5 pm, , 805-648-1235
Harbor Village Gallery, 1591 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura Harbor Village
Wed-Mon 11-6 pm (summer hours), 805-644-2750

"Sketches" is published by the Buenaventura Art Association.
Visit our website at
buenaventuragallery.org.(805) 648-1235.
email: [email protected].