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2005
EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASES
2005 ARTS ALIVE! PRESS RELEASES
OTHER EXHIBITION NEWS
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Date: November 11, 2005 Call for Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Proposals The Humboldt Arts Council in the Morris Graves Museum of Art is currently accepting proposals for exhibitions in the Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden. Two and three month exhibitions will be scheduled for the 2006 and 2007 exhibition cycle. Work must be able to withstand the elements of Humboldt County for the duration of the exhibition. Both group and solo proposals will be considered. Please include a letter of intent describing the project and 10 images (slides or jpegs) to MGMA, 636 F Street, Eureka, CA 95501. For more information please contact Jemima Harr, Museum Director-Curator at 707-442-0278, ext. 205 or jemima@humboldtarts.org. ________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:First Saturday Night Arts Alive! December 3, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Date: November 11, 2005Homer Balabanis GalleryMorris Graves: Selections from the Humboldt Arts Council Permanent Collection Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden 11th Annual Junque Arte Competition and Exhibition Tom Knight Gallery & Dr. Richard and Elizabeth Anderson GalleryHumboldt Arts Council Annual Juried Membership Exhibition This annual exhibition features work in various media, including drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture and fiber arts. This year’s juror is Blake Stimson. Stimson is a professor of Art History at UC Davis. His field of interest is 20th Century and Contemporary Art. With a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1998, he often writes for Artforum. Awards will be presented at 7:00 p.m.Museum Gift Shop, Floyd Bettiga Gallery & Annex William Thonson Gallery Performance Rotunda _____________________________________________________________ Date: October 13, 2005 Third Annual Small Works Exhibition and Drawing Only two months are left to purchase tickets for the Third Annual Small Works Exhibition and Drawing currently in the Performance Rotunda of the Morris Graves Museum of Art. Twenty of Humboldt County’s most generous artists have each donated a 6”x 8” painting or 3-dimensional work for this fundraiser to benefit the Humboldt Arts Council. The lucky winners will be drawn at the December 3, 2005 Arts Alive! Celebration at 7pm. Small Works exhibitors this year include Joshua K. Awbrey, Floyd Bettiga, Jo Cunningham, Eric Fidjeland, Kay Harden, Vaughn Hutchins, John Jameton, Mimi La Plant, David LaPlantz, Louis Marak, Jim McVicker, Graham Moody, Tam Moore, Theresa Oats, Kathy O’Leary, Curtis Otto, John Pound, Melvin Schuler, Adrienne Werth and John Wesa. Drawing tickets
will sell for $10 each, 3 for $25, 10 for $50 and 25 for $100. Homer Balabanis
Gallery Melvin Schuler
Sculpture Garden Tom Knight
Gallery Dr. Richard
and Elizabeth Anderson Gallery Floyd Bettiga
Gallery William Thonson
Gallery Performance
Rotunda __________________________________________________________________ Date: September 27, 2005 November 2005 marks the
35th year William S. Pierson has been a practicing artist employing
photography as a medium. The work in the exhibition draws from some
of the finest photographs in Pierson’s inventory, which have
been reprinted with today’s standards. These milestone images
will be accompanied by new photographs made from 2003 to 2005. The
exhibition is installed chronologically, illustrating the evolution
of Pierson’s work over the past three decades. FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: First Saturday Night Arts Alive! October
1, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Homer Balabanis Gallery Melvin Schuler Sculpture
Garden Tom Knight Gallery Dr. Richard and Elizabeth
Anderson Gallery Floyd Bettiga Gallery William Thonson Gallery
Youth Gallery Performance
Rotunda __________________________________________________________________ Date:
August 23, 2005 Kit Davenport: A Dreaming Hand A Dreaming Hand presents Kit Davenport’s sculptures and paintings made from 2003 to 2005. Representation and abstract form are used to explore such themes as: illness, the precariousness of "home", "nature" as a reflection of our (human) selves, and the human capacity for creation and destruction. The sculptures in this exhibition are built from stoneware and low fire clays. The surfaces are developed with underglazes and lusters, acrylic and oil paints, waxes, pigments and metal leaf. ____________________________________________________________________ FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: First Saturday Night Arts
Alive! September 3, 6-9 p.m. Homer Balabanis Gallery William Thonson Gallery
& Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden Tom Knight Gallery Dr. Richard and Elizabeth
Anderson Gallery Floyd Bettiga Gallery Youth Gallery Performance Rotunda _____________________________________________________________________ Date: August 2, 2005 11th Annual Junque Arte Exhibition Opens at the Morris Graves Museum of Art The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to announce the 11th annual Junque Arte Exhibition and Competition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The juried exhibit runs through September 11 in the William Thonson Gallery and through January 8, 2006 in the Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden. An opening reception will be held August 6, 6-9 p.m. during First Saturday Night Arts Alive! An award presentation for this year’s winners will be announced in the rotunda of the museum at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Designed to celebrate artistic creativity on the Northcoast and heighten the awareness to renewable resources in the artmaking process, each artwork in the show is made from 100% recycled materials. This year’s Jurors are Philo Northrup and Jack DeVore, both well-known artists whose passion for assemblage and junk art became a lifestyle. This exhibition was made possible by the generous support by Eureka Community Recycling Center, Humboldt Waste Management Authority, City Garbage Company of Eureka and Fire & Light. Also on view in the Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden is Philo Northrup’s Truck in Flux, Philo’s 4th of 5 art cars. It features 3D steel flames outlined in neon, an ornamental iron grille, Spanish tiled roof, living garden growing in back, and it’s always fluxing. The truck will be featured in the Sculpture Garden through the middle of September before it starts its journey back to the Bay Area. __________________________________________________________________ Date: August 2, 2005 Izumo The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to present
the photographic exhibition Makoto Furukawa: Izumo. Everyday Life
with Kamis. Kamis Stays Close to Us. in the Tom Knight Gallery.
The images on exhibition explore Izumo, Japan, the artist’s
birthplace and current home. Izumo is an important railway and road
hub, with industries such as silk manufacturing, woodworking and
brewing. Situated at the foot of the sacred Yakumo and Kamiyama
hills, the temple Izumo Taisha is considered to be the oldest and
most important Shinto shrine in all of Japan. Izumo is well known
as a special place for Japanese spirituality, and these images explore
the scenery, traditions and people of the area. Date: May 26,
2005 The Morris Graves Museum of Art is pleased to present Lisa Hale: Depicting Spaces, On and Off the Wall in the Dr. Richard & Elizabeth Anderson Gallery. This installation is a combination of sculpture and painting united through the relationship of strong color and form. Each work utilizes the repetition of multiple shapes as a metaphor for communities in urban and rural environments. As a means of furthering connections among communities, this work is designed for interactivity and serves as a mechanism for dialogue between viewers and art. “What I have learned from this relationship is that my work is a hybrid inspired by rural and urban landscapes where forms intersect and thereby shape communities. I am drawn to the edges or spaces in between neighbors and neighborhoods, and the infrastructure that connects consumers and mass-producing industries.” The exhibition runs through August 14. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: May 26,
2005 The Morris Graves Museum of Art is pleased to present Ellie Brown: Elastic Identity in the Tom Knight Gallery. Ellie Brown’s photographic images examine pre-adolescent girls and the subtle nuances of body language, grooming rituals, gestures and the search for identity. The images focus on the time between childhood and adolescence when confidence and one’s own voice typically falter. Elastic Identity comes from Brown’s intense examination of her own middle school experiences and what made it so difficult. “In this work I am looking at my sisters, cousins and other girls who are now in their early and mid-teens. It is their quest for identity in this time that is of primary interest to me. My photographs approach this subject without exploitation, but rather a deep caring for the girls to come out okay on the other side.” The exhibition runs through July 31. __________________________________________________________________ Date: May 24,
2005 Third Annual Small Works Exhibition and Drawing Opens June 3 The Third Annual Small Works Exhibition and Drawing opens Friday, June 3 in the Performance Rotunda of the Morris Graves Museum of Art. Twenty of Humboldt County’s most generous artists have each donated a 6”x 8” painting or 3-dimensional work for this fundraiser to benefit the Humboldt Arts Council. The lucky winners will be drawn at the December 3, 2005 Arts Alive! Celebration at 7pm. Small Works exhibitors this year include Joshua K. Awbrey, Floyd Bettiga, Jo Cunningham, Eric Fidjeland, Kay Harden, Vaughn Hutchins, John Jameton, Mimi La Plant, David LaPlantz, Louis Marak, Jim McVicker, Graham Moody, Tam Moore, Theresa Oats, Kathy O’Leary, Curtis Otto, John Pound, Melvin Schuler, Adrienne Werth and John Wesa. Drawing tickets
will sell for $10 each, 3 for $25, 10 for $50 and 25 for $100. ____________________________________________________________________ Date: May 24,
2005 The Morris Graves Museum of Art is pleased to present Lisa Marie Waters: Retrospective in the William Thonson Gallery. Waters began painting in 1976 at Humboldt State University, and has been the featured artist in publications such as “American Artist Magazine” and “Ladies Home Journal”. This retrospective highlights her traditional dry pastel paintings, including impressionistic landscapes and the abstract elements that exist in nature. “I am inspired when I witness chaos and order together in nature; as I get that ‘wow’ feeling that makes me stop and appreciate my tiny part in the bigger picture. As abstract patterns develop, I watch to see how the elements before me become woven into the whole. My painting process is slow paced and only a few pieces are created each year.” This exhibition features work created over the past twenty years. It runs through July 17. ________________________________________________________________ Date: May 18,
2005 Eureka— Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Humboldt Arts Council in The Morris Graves Museum of Art is one of 118 museums across the country to receive funding to undergo the Conservation Assessment Program (CAP). CAP grants enable museums to conduct essential conservation assessments of their sites and collections. The assessment helps museums establish conservation goals to ensure their holdings remain viable to the public for years to come. Grants support a two-day visit by conservation professionals who review the museums’ collections, environment and historic structures. “This is a wonderful opportunity for the Museum to establish short and long-term conservation planning,” said Museum Director-Curator Jemima Harr. “This will help ensure our collection and building serves the community for years to come.” “I congratulate the museums receiving Conservation Assessment Program grant awards today,” said Robert Martin, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. “The collections in their care hold America’s rich and diverse cultural heritage. The grants we make today will help museums keep these riches viable to sustain a lifetime of learning for today’s generation and generations to follow.” The Institute
of Museum and Library Services is an independent federal grant-making
agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners
by helping libraries and museums serve their communities. ________________________________________________________________________ Date: February
24, 2005 The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to announce a call for entries for the 4th Annual Northwest Eye Regional Fine Art Photography Competition & Exhibition in the Morris Graves Museum of Art. Open to all photographers residing in the Pacific Northwest: Northern California (from Monterey Bay north), Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Alaska. Five Best of Show Awards for $250 each and a Grand Prize Award of $1000. This year’s juror is Judy Dater. Judy Dater has been making photographs for over 30 years. One of America’s foremost photographers, Dater is best known for her images of women and confrontational photographs of the nude. Having received numerous grants and awards, she is a lecturer and workshop leader throughout North and South America, Europe, and Japan. Her photographs are represented in many collections, including the International Museum for Photography in New York and the Seattle Art Museum. Dater will give a presentation at the museum on Saturday, March 19th at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Call for entry forms can be picked up at the Morris Graves Museum of Art during open hours, Thursday through Sunday noon to 5 p.m. or by visiting www.humboldtarts.org. The entry deadline is Friday, March 18, 3 to 6 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. The exhibition runs from April 2 through May 22. ___________________________________________________________________________ Date: February
17, 2005 The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to announce the opening of Morris Graves & Bruno Groth: Northwest Flight, an exhibition in the Homer Balabanis Gallery at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. An opening reception will be held during First Saturday Arts Alive!, March 5 from 6 to 9 p.m. For artists
of the Northwest School, imagery of birds typically represented
the force of man’s soul into another state of consciousness.
The Northwest Flight explores the relationship Morris Graves and
Bruno Groth had with these creatures, and the power they played
in their work. On exhibit with Morris Graves’ The Great Blue
Heron Yogi and The Great Rainbow Trout Yogi in Phenomenal Space,
Mental Space, and the Space of Consciousness, are two recently gifted
Bruno Groth sculptures to the Humboldt Arts Council Permanent Collection. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: February
15, 2005 The Monart
Drawing School proudly presents an exhibition of drawings at our
Fourth Annual Student Art Show. The students’ ages range from
five to fourteen years old. Subject matter includes representational
drawings of animals, insects, landscapes, and the human figure in
a variety of drawing media from markers, colored and graphite pencils,
watercolors, and oil and chalk pastels. The exhibit opens March
5, 2005 at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in the Youth Gallery
during and continues through April 25, 2005. The reception for the
art show will take place during Arts Alive on Saturday, March 5,
2005 from 6 pm to 9pm. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: February 17, 2005 The Humboldt Arts Council
is pleased to announce the opening of In Human Nature by Inspired by Humboldt County’s vast pastures and roaming bovine, Yerian recreates a heard of cattle using cowhides stretched over various hollow shapes such as spheres, cubes, and cylindrical forms. Each individual piece will retain an inherent tension that is established by the soft personalized nature of cowhide and the impersonal generic qualities created by the hard-edged perfection of the geometric shapes. The forms will have a spatial and visual connection to one another that will suggest a family lineage between forms. _____________________________________________________________________________ Date: January
28, 2005 Don Trepanier
from Wells Fargo Bank presents a check to Betty Osborne, Vice President
of the Humboldt Arts Council and Jemima Harr, Museum Director-Curator
in the amount of $1,500. Wells Fargo Bank is the Museum Sponsor
for January, and the donation benefits the exhibitions and programs
at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. _____________________________________________________________________________ Date: January
21, 2005 The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to announce the opening of Karen Sullivan: In Pursuit of the Invisible at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, February 5 through April 3, 2005 in the Richard and Elizabeth Anderson Gallery. An opening reception will be held February 5, 6 to 9 p.m. during First Saturday Arts Alive! In Pursuit of the Invisible highlights Sullivan’s interest in the magic, mystery, miracle and emotion of representational imagery with open-ended meaning. Using automatic drawing, dreams and meditation, this exhibition focuses on the processes of the real world that evoke psychological concerns. “My work is about exploration of the unseen world of feelings, doubt, memory and yearning for completion. I like the back and forth interweaving of contradictory processes in making art.” Sullivan graduated from Humboldt State University and has exhibited widely throughout California. An artist presentation will be held on Saturday, February 12 at 3 p.m. at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. Admission is free. ________________________________________________________________ Date: January
21, 2005 The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to announce the opening of Tom Patton & Nancy Scott Patton The City: In Print at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, February 5 through March 31, 2005 in the Tom Knight Gallery. An opening reception will be held February 5, 6 to 9 p.m. during First Saturday Arts Alive! Focusing on images of major urban centers and historic architectural details, this exhibition comprises collagraphic prints on hand-made paper and digital photographic works which depicts the artists’ responses to urban architecture. Tom utilizes traditional and digital photographic processes in his work, while Nancy draws from photographs and memory onto the collagraph plates from which her images are printed. In different ways both artists respond to the beauty of the urban landscape around them. Where Nancy’s prints draw on history to create a lyrical, even magical view of ornamental architectural elements, Tom’s photographs exert the hard-edge austere patterns of modern cities. ________________________________________________________________ Date: January
21, 2005 The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to announce the opening of Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, February 5 through March 20, 2005 in the William Thonson Gallery. An opening reception will be held February 5, 6 to 9 p.m. during First Saturday Arts Alive! Eating Disorders in a Disordered Culture is the first visual arts project of its kind exploring the personal, cultural and historical dimensions of eating disorders. This multi-faceted exhibition provides a visual expression of the experience of eating disorders by combining textual narratives with powerful imagery in order to convey both the personal experience and the cultural pervasiveness of eating disorders. The narratives and images are utilized in posters, prints and sculptural pieces. Organized by
Kathryn Sylva, Assistant Professor of Design at the University of
California, Davis and Robin Lasser, Associate Professor, Photography
at San Jose State University, this exhibition has been shown at
numerous galleries and on billboards and Date: January
3, 2005 A selection of masks gifted to the Humboldt Arts Council’s Permanent Collection from John and Lyn Pauley exhibited with watercolors and linoprints of masks by Helmi Juvonen. ________________________________________________________________ Date: January
3, 2005 Organized by
Eureka High School faculty, this exhibition highlights the art programs
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17, 2004 The Humboldt Arts Council is pleased to announce the opening of the Annual Membership Exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, December 16 to January 23, 2005 in the Tom Knight and Dr. Richard & Elizabeth Anderson Galleries. An opening reception will be held January 1, 6 to 9 p.m. during First Saturday Arts Alive! This year’s juror is Sheila Farr, Seattle native and Art Critic for the Seattle Times. Sheila studied art and dance at Cornish and the University of Washington. She has a masters degree in creative writing from Western Washington University. Her books include “Fay Jones,” “Leo Kenney: A Retrospective,” and “James Martin: Art Rustler at the Rivoli.” Four Exhibition Awards will be announced at the reception on January 1. This year’s exhibition features work in various media, including drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture and fiber arts. 58 works are on display by Humboldt Arts Council Member artists. ________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Cheryl Coon Natural Observations Date: December
17, 2004 Coon’s large, extremely textured paintings with layers of sediment and pigment similar to natural formations and geologic structures formed over time are rooted in her experience of living in Humboldt County. Images of insects, skin, fossils and other natural surfaces using beeswax, sediment, ashes, acrylic and raw pigments incorporate the passage of time into her work, each layer documenting a session spent with the piece. Her technique and use of materials leads to a reflection on process as much as image. Coon says “Many of these pieces are preserved or captured in a fragile state of disintegration, like fossils. In this way, life becomes a part of the work, and time spent with the work is a way to explore my own fascination with nature and other living organisms.” Coon graduated from Humboldt State University and received her Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Recently an assistant gallery director with the San Francisco Arts Commission, Coon has curated numerous exhibitions and taught throughout the west. ________________________________________________________________ Date: October
18, 2004 Three never before exhibited works by Morris Graves on loan from the Veluttini Family Collection are juxtaposed with the Humboldt Arts Council’s The Great Blue Heron Yogi and The Great Rainbow Trout Yogi in Phenomenal Space, Mental Space, and the Space of Consciousness. This exhibition explores Graves’ interest in the varying states of consciousness through the wildlife of the Northwest. ________________________________________________________________ FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Beauty of Industry at the Morris Graves Museum of Art “I sense relationships at the heart of my work,” states sculptor Jason Butler. The artist is exhibiting a group of new outdoor steel sculptures this August 14 through February 20, 2005 in the Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. Butler will give a talk on his work in the sculpture garden on Saturday, August 14 at 3pm. Admission is free to HAC members. “I am a close observer of minute details
in everything; people, nature, buildings etc. This I think is why
the forms resemble industrial machines and equipment. I enjoy manhole
covers, hydraulic pistons and electrical boxes, visually paying
little attention to their function—the common object as a
work of art,” maintains Butler. Butler is currently a graduate student of sculpture at University of Arizona in Tuscon. He has had two solo shows in Eureka, and has been a variety of group shows in Humboldt County. Butler also has work in private collections in Northern California. |
