Artists' Union Gallery
330 South California Street
Ventura 93001
Gallery Hours
Thursday & Sunday
Noon to 6 p.m.
Friday & Saturday
Noon to 8 p.m.
Phone: (805) 643-3012
www.venturaartistsunion.org
info@venturaartistsunion.org
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"STUDIO 255
"In.ter.pre.ta.tion" - Watercolor Paintings
By the students of Julie Merrill
Gallery 255 a Ventura, CA art gallery will be showcasing watercolor paintings done by adult students of art instructor Julie Merrill from February 18 through March 13, 2010. The title of the exhibition is "In.ter.pre.ta.tion". Exhibiting Students: Debra Alderson, Charlotte Lucero, Helen Faul, Laura Hansen, Jean Scott, Molly Thomas, Pete Plascurian, Steve Ward, Roger Varian, Sheila Wenzel, Betsy Held, Kathy Stoddard, Donna Cabrera, Linda Newhard, Mary Chandler, and Linda Cowen.
Ms. Merrill has been teaching watercolor classes at Sea Breeze Art Studios (which is attached to Gallery 255) for most of last year. This exhibit is the work of her students during this time. Her adult students range from beginner to intermediate painters. She has inspired them to find a new way of expressing themselves. Julie Merrill has been watercolor painting for many years especially during her travels.
The public is invited to attend the following events:
Opening Reception
Saturday, February 20th
From: 6:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Art Exhibit Runs
February 18 - March 13, 2010
First Friday: March 5, 2010
Hours: 5:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Gallery Hours:
Thursday, Friday - Saturday 12 - 5 P.M.
Sunday 12 -3 P.M.
Gallery 255
255 South Laurel Street, Ventura, CA.
These are free events & refreshments will be served.
"Artist's Statement"
In.ter.pre.ta.tion
Ms. Merrill has been teaching watercolor classes at Sea Breeze Art Studios for most of last year. This exhibit is the work of her students during this time. Her adult students range from beginner to intermediate painters. She has inspired them to find a new way of expressing themselves. Julie Merrill has been watercolor painting for many years especially during her travels. Participating Students:
Charlotte Lucero, Helen Faul, Laura Hansen, Jean Scott, Molly Thomas, Pete Plascurian, Steve Ward, Roger Varian, Sheila Wenzel, Betsy Held, Kathy Stoddard, Donna Cabrera, Linda Newhard, Mary Chandler, and Linda Cowen
"Instructor's Bios"
Julie Merrill is the third generation of her family to call Ventura her home. Even though she has traveled throughout the world, Merrill still considers Ventura the absolute best place to live.
After growing up in Ventura she moved to Hawaii and then to Sonoma County where she married and had her two children. While living in Sonoma County she graduated from Sonoma State University, working mainly in color and design.
In 1986 she returned to Ventura and worked at Patagonia as the colorist, and print director, where she was able to enjoy her interest in art and color. During this time Julie enjoyed several years of watercolor classes with Cathy Quiel, a Santa Barbara artist. Cathy Quiel's classes have been most influential in Julie's painting.
Julie now lives at the beach in Ventura, teaches watercolor classes at Sea Breeze Art Studios, travels and paints as much as possible. "Teaching watercolor", Julie says, "is just about the most fun thing she has done. It is inspiring to watch total beginner students discover their creative side and get lost in their painting. Doing art helps to see things in a different way adding value and dimension to life."
She feels very lucky to be living in Ventura surrounded by so much inspiration - the hills, the beach and other amazing artists that live here too.
Posted To "Town Biz 101" 01/19/10
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ARTISTS UNION GALLERY PRESENTS CONCERT
Kaiborg With Jeff Kaiser &
David Borgo Performance
This event is a KaiBorg CD release concert that, also, includes performer Kris Tiner with a film by Allen Glass.
The performance strategies of KaiBorg encompass the exploratory domains of real-time computer processing and experimental improvisation. The scope of their musical vocabulary creates an intricate web of references and a compelling ensemble voice. KaiBorg employs real-time interactive strategies from jazz and improvised music within the expanded sonic palette and space made possible by the use of live electronics.
The goal is to create hybrid instruments with which we have the same intimate feedback relationship as our traditional acoustic ones. We eschew pre-recorded samples and pre-composed material so that all of the sonic events and forms originate in performance. However, the performers do not shun in their relationship to the rich tradition of jazz and African American creative music making. In the performances, their aim is to sonically foreground the cybernetic processes of feedback, interconnection, communication and emergence.
KaiBorg has performed at the following: STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, University of Göteborg, the Brötznow Club in Sweden, NWEAMO (Northwest Electro-Acoustic Music Organization) in San Diego, UC Institute for Research in the Arts, "State of the Art" Festival in Riverside, 2008 International Society for Improvised Music in the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, Colorado, Palomar College Concert Series, INCUBATOR at UCSD and for the three nights of concerts celebrating the opening of the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UCSD.
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David Borgo is a saxophonist, multi-media artist, ethnomusicologist, and Associate Professor of Music at UCSD in the Integrative Studies Program. He has released five CDs and one DVD as a leader. His book, Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age, won the Alan P. Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2006 as the most distinguished book published during the previous year.
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Jeff Kaiser is a trumpet player, multi-media artist and PhD student in the Integrative Studies Program (music) at UCSD. He is the founder and owner of the pfMENTUM and Angry Vegan record labels. Jeff has released numerous albums as leader/co-leader, as well as been a featured performing artist at festivals, universities, clubs and concert halls around the U.S. and abroad.
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Kris Tiner is a California-based trumpet player, composer, and improviser. His music has been described as "extraordinarily inventive" (Signal to Noise Magazine), and capable of turning "barbed wire to beauty" (LA Weekly), with a "folksy sort of lyricism that one does not usually find in avant-jazz." (JazzReview.com). Kris has performed at concert venues and festivals throughout North America and abroad, and he appears on over 40 recordings for Clean Feed, pfMENTUM, Nine Winds, and other labels.
Kris has received awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, the International Association for Jazz Education, and the John F. Kennedy Center's Jazz Ahead program. His primary musical projects include the Empty Cage Quartet and Tin/Bag with NYC guitarist Mike Baggetta. Kris is a regular member of the Industrial Jazz Group and a founding member of the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet. In addition, he has collaborated with Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Donald Robinson, Gerry Hemingway, Nels Cline, Mary Oliver, Ken Filiano, Kraig Grady, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jeff Kaiser, G.E. Stinson, Alicia Mangan, Lukas Ligeti and many others.
Kris holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Music from CSU Bakersfield. He has lectured on both music and visual art, and currently teaches courses in jazz and popular music at Bakersfield College.
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Allen D. Glass II is an international film artist, psychologist, musicologist, archivist, chemical dependency specialist, hallucinaturalist and member of the Photo Archive Group, which preserves the American history of genocide in Southeast Asia.
His films and photographs have been exhibited by the: British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Festival International Nouveau Cinéma Nouveau Medias Montreal, International Experimental Cinema Exposition, Black Maria Film Festival and International Film Festivals of London, Melbourne, Tehran, Toronto, Tokyo and Luxembourg among others. He has collaborated extensively with Wadada Leo Smith, Revolutionary Ensemble and Empty Cage Quartet.
Poet Dorothea Grossman once wrote this text about his films: "Humankind in the unfamiliar landscape, composing itself rhythmically and even lovingly into poetry - nature as mammal music, Life Dance, and Foreign smells, and silences that are, of course, their own". Artist Union Gallery
330 California Street
Ventura, CA 93001
Date: January 30th
Time: 8 p.m.
For more information:
davidborgo.com
www.jeffkaiser.com
Posted To: "Town Biz 101" 01/25/10
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