Uncategorized
jennifer tenace
"Seeing in the Distance"
David Rodriguez
"Of Agony and Forgiveness"
BIO
David Rodriguez is an amateur photographer and a local, Long Beach, California Heights resident. He picked up a camera over a year ago in search of a creative outlet.
You’ll find David shooting throughout Long Beach along some of his favorite spots – along the Los Angeles River, across the bay from Long Beach on Queens Way, on one of his favorite neighborhoods, Retro Row on 4th Street, and along many of Long Beach’s bike trails.
David carries a camera in his pocket on most days and takes various pictures on Los Angeles’ Metro Rail system and in one of his favorite spots in LA – Union Station.
His belief is: Shoot from the angle and position, and compose it in a way that is not the obvious one.
sue ann robinson
1904 1974 2004 Unique mixed media artist's book 18" h x 30" w (open) x 1 1/2" d
The image of 1904 1974 2004 is a unique artist’s book commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Robinson has been creating unique and limited edition artist’s books since 1981. Her current work has taken her in a new direction that actively engages her 93-years-young mother in her studio practice. She will be demonstrating Japanese paper marbling during the studio tour. Internationally known artist Pia Pizzo will be presenting her artist’s books at Robinson’s studio the weekend of the Mid-City Studio Tour as well.
pia pizzo
The Ring Of Unity
Pia Pizzo at SFCB Online Gallery
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Since the early seventies my research has led me to a continual exploration of the book as an Art form. In my books or pages the tactile values of materials are found in each and every sheet of paper that is torn and worked upon with such patient care so as to lay bare the innermost fibers, to feel its textures, its porosity, the very tissue of its surface.
The non-books or rather the non-readable books that I contemplate as extension of the perspective of both mind and memory, set out to recount a happening, a state of affairs or a journey within the page or through the pages. The page is therefore the chosen setting for any hypothetical adventure you may embark upon or any hypothetical message you may be seeking: the blank page thus represents the virgin void of mental space. In this way the progressive cutting, this virtual inter-framing between one page and another, opens up upon the perspective against which and within which the mind can roam at will.
The sequence of the pages, which act as the filters/screens of an unidentifiable
complex machinery, unfolds with kinetic rhythm as you turn the pages, so these books become the arena within which to unwind your mind rather than the stage for grasping codified messages. The tearing of the paper is never the outcome of an aggressive approach but stems rather from studied feeling and touching, from physical contact with both the material and reality at the same time, as a step towards thinking once again in tactile terms.
The representation of the Symbols represents the many complex aspects of reality, as a tool to transform Energy. C.G.Jung:On Psychic Energy.
Symbols and diagrams are sometime used to explain, through the golden proportions and sacred geometry, the relationships that exist within Human Nature and the universe.
When I start a work of art, there is an empty space, a void, and I search how to
balance form with emptiness, knowing when one has ” says ” enough. The shapes that take form are so integrally related to is empty space giving the feeling of marvelous Void. Because Void is a dynamic entity.
The Non-Books and pages without words or images are focused only on the light and shadows created in the empty spaces of their construction, they are composed with natural light which cause the pieces to vibrate as the light change through the course of the day. As well as an awareness of the unknown fathoms of exploration, my work demands the music of silence.
BIO
Born in Palermo, Italy
1956 Diploma High School of Art Orsoline of San Carlo, Milano, Italy
1956 Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Brera, Milano, Italy
1957 BFA from the Ministry of Public Instruction, Rome, Italy
1960 First Solo Exhibition, Milano, Italy
1960 Awarded First Prize at The National Drawing Competition Diomira, Milano, Italy
1964 to 1998, represented by Suzanne Bollag Galerie ( Bollag Galeries ), Zurich, Switzerland
1967 to 1969 lived and worked in New York, N.Y.
1968 Awarded a Residency at the Mac Dowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H., USA
1972 to 1994 ” Basel International Art Fair “, represented by Susanne Bollag Gallery, Zurich
1972 to 1976 lived and worked in London, England
1977 to 1982 lived and worked in Milano, Italy
1982 Moved to Long Beach, California
1984 Since 1984 she is Permanent Resident of the USA
1984 Fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, N.Y.
1984 Fellowship from the California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
1985 Awarded one year residency at the Long Beach Nature Center to work with visually impaired and blind
children at a 5′x 8′x 14″ Permanent Tactile Book Sculpture “, Long Beach, CA.
1987 Honorable Mention at the “ Women Artist of California “, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
1988 Awarded First Prize at the XXIII National Exhibition, Capo d’ Orlando, Italy
1988 Selected for a Solo Exhibition “ The Books of the Future “, for the 500 year celebration of the first
printed Jewish Bible, Soncino, Italy
1989 Awarded Artist of the Year, Distinguished Visual Artist, from the Public Corporation for the Arts,
PCA, Long, Beach, CA.
1995 Lecturer at the Cal. State University, ( Art and Technology ) “ Books as Art “, Long Beach, CA
1995 Lecturer at the Cal. State University, ( Art and Technology ) “ Sculptural-Books “, Long Beach, CA
1995 to 2005, Instructor of Design and Visual Communication at Brooks College, Long Beach, CA.
1998 Interactive poetry workshop with poet Manazar Gamboa, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1999 Honorable Mention at the “ Digital Art in a Traditional World “, Long Beach Arts Gallery, Long Beach
2001 Awarded by the Public Corporation for the Arts, PCA, Individual Artist Fellowship for 2001, Long
Beach, CA.
2001 Awarded Permanent Art in Public Space, City of Gardena, Gardena, CA.
2003 Biographical record in the 6th Edition of Who’sWho of American Educators, Marquis Who’sWho
2002 2005 Biographical record in the 23rd and the 24th Edition of Who’sWho of American Women,
Marquis Who’sWho in America
.
1960 to 2008 35 Solo Exhibitions in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, England, USA
1957 to 2009 91 Group Exhibitions in Italy, Taiwan, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland,
Macedonia, England, Germany, Brazil, USA
Pia Pizzo’s artworks are in Museums, Libraries, Archives and Private Collections in USA, Europe, Brazil and Taiwan
karen holden – poet
Karen Holden, well known poet, will read a selection of her poems at 3 p.m. both days in the garden of Slater Barron’s Studio.
excerpt:
I return on freeways without reason
daughter of place more than of parents
this is how love comes home
— Karen Holden
BIO
Karen Holden is a poet, painter and graphic artist whose current multidisciplinary work explores the intersection of history, memory and identity. Her volume of poems, Book of Changes, is published by North Atlantic Books. She will be reading poems from her current project How Love Comes Home: Los Angeles in Four Voices. Hear Karen at 3:00 on both Saturday and Sunday in the garden of Slater Barron’s studio.
Doug Orr
ARTIST STATEMENT
I come from a long line of artists and story tellers. My e-mail address of ”Mindsculptor1″ and my business name “Orr Visual Communications” both tend to say a lot about me as a person. My life is about Visual Communications and my intent is, through my own personal way of story telling, to try and sculpt a bit of everyone’s mind by bringing forth memories of past feelings lost in a bygone age, perhaps evoking some lost or hidden truth.
The viewer is encouraged to open his mind, step into my world and join me on my journey or just look at my work as decoration and leave it at that; no further explanation needed.
I am fascinated with the Iconic Art that I’ve seen in my travels and I believe that it offers me a great outlet for my work.
BIO
Douglas was born in Washington State and began drawing with the help of a 1st grade classmate who showed him how to really see what he was looking at in 1968. In high school Douglas was a teacher’s aid in art all three years and by 1980 he had his own art studio and gallery in downtown Aberdeen where he taught beginning drawing and painting and showcased not only his art but that of his students as well.
Douglas attended Grays Harbor College where he was the founder of the Grays Harbor Arts Society serving as its President in 1984/1985 and as Vice President in 1986. The group raised money to offer the only local artist scholarships available to students continuing their education in art.
In 1977 Douglas started working for JCPenney building newspaper and radio ads as well as dressing the stores 23 show windows. In 1986, after earning an AA degree at Grays Harbor College, Doug moved to Long Beach California to attend the graphic design program at CSULB and work as Sr. Visual Merchandising Manager for the Lakewood JCPenney. By 2002 Douglas had already been the Visual Manager of the area’s 4 largest stores and District Manager for LA County Home Lines.
In 2002 Douglas left JCPenney to open a restaurant in Long Beach that featured Fine foods, wines, art and music and by 2007, through the sale of art and music, his restaurant was putting over $25,000 a year into the hands of the local Long Beach arts community. While operating his restaurant Douglas became a board member of the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association where he started the Street Decor Committee and got $25,000 to form a tree planting program.
Doug has also served as Vic President of the Long Beach Shakespeare Company from 2003 to present. Currently Doug operates ORR Visual Communications, an interior/exterior design and construction company which he has owned since 1997 and is active with the Second City Arts, DDR Projects and Long Beach Arts.
