Jeff Craig, At Earth’s Edge
June 5 through July18
At Earth’s Edge, is a collection of archivally printed photographs. Craig says, ”Standing on a bluff peering out to where ocean and sky meet, I often feel I am looking at a scene outside of time. I find solace in these quiet moments of tranquil emptiness; a notion I believe can be transformed into real form. These vistas have enabled me to merge my reductivist aesthetic with one of the most intriguing aspects of photography, the notion of context. The camera captures a mere impression of a moment and place in time. The image however, once captured, is removed from its environment. The viewer therefore is separated from that scene in its true context of time and place. My images are exemplars of these timeless expanses.” Jeff Craig has participated in numerous group exhibitions, and most recently in 2008, won Best of Show for Images of Water at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, and one of five Best of Show awards in the Northwest Eye also at the Morris Graves Museum of Art.

Selections from the HAC Permanent Collection

Jesse Allen
June 23 through August 8
Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Jesse Allen has been painting for over fifty years. Jesse is a self-taught artist who has always followed his own personal vision and process of painting.
Allen’s personal mythologies denote symbolism to each individual plant, creature, an earth form in his pieces, creating complex visual narratives. Allen takes most of his imagery from the landscape of Kenya, where he was born and lived until his late teens. He received a degree in modern languages from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, England. Allen cites the two years following his graduation, spent living in Milan, as fundamental to his development as a painter. An entirely self-taught artist, Allen moved to the United States to teach and eventually left his post as a language professor at Stanford University to pursue painting full-time. Allen says, “For over forty years I have been expressing the vivid colors, images, and emotions in my heart through my art.” Before becoming a full time painter in 1964, Allen worked as a professor at Stanford University teaching Italian and French. Allen has exhibited his work extensively through the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Cathleen Daly, "en plein air"
I in the Floyd Bettiga Gallery through August 29th.

Richard Kistler
February 7 through December 2010
Kistler says, “My art is a meltdown of my life's experiences and observations, twisted by my sense of humor…using my plasma cutter, welder and what ever scrap metal I can get my hands on, my sculptures become a 3-dimensional moment of my life.” Richard (a.k.a. Rick) Kistler is currently residing in the great Humboldt Nation, CA. Kistler’s work will be on display in the Melvin Schuler Sculpture Garden.

"Fireworks" by Cathleen Daly

Cathleen Daly, Beyond Beauty
July 3 through August 29
* A full-color catalog will be available for purchase.

Beyond Beauty is a collection of floral watercolors. Daly’s intent of the exhibition is to portray herself, her impressions and her emotions in the presence of nature. Daly says “I dialogue with my paintings. In the original drawings and the first brushstrokes, the painting awakens. The nature of watercolor is that each stroke is irreversible; each stroke wants to dictate the next. I am committed to my vision on its unedited truth...” “It is important to me that my paintings be a feast for the eyes, that it be a bridge linking my mind and heart with the mind and heart of the viewer. Cathleen Daly received her BA in Art History at the University of California in Art History. Upon graduation, she traveled to Europe and began studies at the Accademia dei Belli Arte in Rome, Italy. In the following year she began studies with Stanley William Hayter in Paris, France, who is often named as the “father of modern printmaking.” In Paris, Daly worked in Atelier 17 (Hayter’s studio) as a student, with the master artist and printer Liao Shiou Ping. Daly has exhibited extensively and repeatedly in Japan and Taiwan over the last twenty years. In 1993 she was commissioned by the University of Western Michigan to represent their renowned department of American Women’s Poetry. She has been a member of the Taidemaalarillitto Ry (Finnish Painters’ Union) and has repeatedly received fellowships from the Cite International des Arts in Paris, France (as recently as 2004) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2005).

MORRIS GRAVES & ART OF THE NORTHWEST
Continous through the year

Homer Balabanis Gallery Come explore the work of Morris Graves from the Humboldt Arts Council’s Permanent Collection. Enhance your interpretation of the artworks on display by perusing the new Interactive CD-ROM The Life & Art of Morris Graves. This educational tool allows the visitor to view a selection of artwork, the Loleta Studio of the artist, and to hear interviews from his friends and colleagues.