CALL FOR ARTISTS - L Street Gallery, San DIego

CALL FOR ARTISTS

L Street Fine Art is pleased to announce an opportunity for up to five local artists to exhibit during the months of November and December 2013 in their gallery space. The show will encompass the weekend of the SD Contemporary Art Fair, which is being held again this year in Balboa Park during the weekend of November 7 - 10.

Cost for each of five artists to exhibit their work for two months in L Street Fine Art's upscale space in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter, which includes an elegantly catered and limited hosted bar reception, will run approximately $400 per selected participant. 

Artists may request to be considered as part of the exhibit by submitting up to 6 images (maximum 1M each; include artist's name, title, medium, and dimensions of each piece) along with their contact information and website address to: kaycolvin@gmail.com.

Artists must be aware that the selected artwork must be consistent with the character of L Street Fine Art. Therefore "controversial" works will not be considered.

All artist requests must be received no later than 6:00 pm Wednesday, August 7, 2013. Finalists will be contacted by August 14. 

Kay Colvin

Columnist A BRUSH WITH ART

Director L STREET FINE ART

Announcing August Events for San Dieguito Art Guild, Encinitas, CA

Don't miss the San Dieguito Art Guild's upcoming events!

Art Demonstration - August 8th, 1:30 - 3:30pm
Paint Like and Animal with Richard Hawk - at San Diego Botanic Gardens, Encinitas, CA.

For more information please RSVP to Sandy Heath, Programs at SDAGPrograms@gmail.com.

Featured Artists Reception - August 10th, 5:00 - 7:30pm
"Color Our Life" with Featured Artists; Judy Salinsky, Sharon Hoffman and Yanina Cambareri  at the Off Track Gallery, Encinitas, CA.

For more information please contact Cheryl Ehlers, Public Relations at sandieguitoartguild@hotmail.com.

Lynn Ely, Fiber Sculptures,"Nature's Art Re-Created", through Septmber 3 at the Encinitas Library

Nature's Art, Recreated" with Lynn Ely

Through September 3, 2013, the Encinitas Library is proud to exhibit Lynn Ely’s, Natures Arts Recreated, fiber Art Sculptures.  Intricate sculptures using pine needles and Irish waxed linen and natural stone.  Each piece becomes artistically enhanced by it setting in a surround of sculpted coils of pine needles which can be opened stitched or covered in a tight wrap of waxed linen.

Lynn Ely was born in Stockholm Sweden, and came with her family to southern California where she attended schools in Santa Monica and the San Fernando Valley. Her B.A. degree from Calif. State Univ. at Northridge includes a specialization in art. Her continuing studies in art include: design, ceramics, leaded stained glass, and silver wire wrap jewelry, several different types of loom weaving, pine needle coiling, drawing, painting, collage, printmaking & composition.

 “It is very exciting for me to share my work in shows and galleries”, she says. Lynn has won numerous awards in local juried art shows including Second Place and Honorable mention at the San Diego County Fair. Her work can be seen at the San Dieguito Art Guild’s Off-Track Gallery in Encinitas, COAL Gallery, Art Center at Fallbrook and Escondido Arts Partnership Municipal Gallery.

Visit the Encinitas Library located at 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas, CA 92024, hours 7 days a week and our website at   www.cityofencinitas.org/index.aspx?page=127.  Or if you are interested in displaying at our local library please contact Cheryl Ehlers, Arts Administrator Assistant at cehlers@encinintasca.gov.

For more information, please email the artist at artsbylynn@gmail.com.

July 27th - Living Lowbrow Artists Reception at the Encintas Library

Zaney, Wild and Fun!

Living Lowbrow Artists Reception on July 27, 2013 – 2:4pm at the Encinitas Library, located at 540 Cornis Drive.

This is exhibit featuring 24 artists from around the country, are a diverse lot with personalities that range from the innocent to the insane, and 7 of the pieces are from Mary Fleener, curator of the exhibit’s personal collection that hangs in her house, bedrooms and kitchen, thus the name "Living Lowbrow". 

Fleener is friends with the majority of the artists and knows many of them quite well. Some of them, such as Krystine Kryttre, have temporarily dropped out of the art world for the glamorous world of Hollywood and she now works as a Special Effects animator, and some such as XNO, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, is rumored to be living in a cave in the Ozarks. Artists from two Encinitas tattoo shops are featured; ink slinger Billy Barnett and Lauren Alexandra Bartram, and two comix  artists, famous in the Underground comix scene, are Robert Armstrong and Dennis Worden. Armstrong is one of the founding members of the Cheap Suits Serenaders, which includes the legendary Robert Crumb. Dennis Worden is well known for his "Stickboy" character. "Flying Zocateq", a huge sculpture made out of bones, is the work of local artist and custom picture framer, Jim Hornung, who owns First Street Gallery. The most poignant piece, however, is by the late Jen Trute, and it has never been seen by the public before. It's a portrait of her sister, and a departure from her eco-apocalyptic themes that the art world is familiar with. Thrift store chic, rock and roll, punk, gothic, tiki, surrealist, dreams and nightmares, irony and humor: all these terms loosely define the World of Lowbrow Art.

The music for the reception will be "Strange Intergalactic Sound Scape", the experimental ambient music of Truuse de Groot, who is famous in Europe for her techno-electronic compositions. She was born in Holland and is the wife Bosko, one of the featured artists in the "Living Lowbrow" show.

Don’t miss this zaney and fun reception on Saturday, free to the public.

For more information you may contact Mary Fleener at fleenerwerks@cox.net.

 

Group 7 - A Foreign Affair at L Street Gallery

Stop in and enjoy art of the Group 7 Artists at the L Street Gallery in San Diego.

Located across from the Omni SanDiego Hotel; 628 L Street in San Diego, you will enjoy

"A FOREIGN AFFAIR" .  Art selected  for exhbit depicts a variety of lifestyles in numerous countires.

Stop in and enjoy the exhbition at L Street Gallery.  For additonal information please contact the Gallery Director, Kay Colvin at kaycolvin@gmail.com or  visit the website at www.lstreetfineart.com.

For more information on the the Group 7 Artists at the L Street Gallery visit:

www.group7art.com/LSTREET.html..

August 8, 2013 - Free Watercolor Demonstration with Richard Hawk - San Dieguito Art Guild

Learn to "Paint Like and Animal" as painter, Richard Hawk shows expressive works that depict the human figure in moments which capture the inner life of his subjects. Strong design and intensity of expression create the excitement for which his work is known. With roots in the traditions of water media, he also paints extensively in oil. 

Richard’s paintings are in a number of collections around the world, and have won awards in many national and international exhibitions and featured in The Artist’s Magazine.

 
Join us at  the San Diego Botanic Gardens: 230 Quail Gardens Dr, Encinitas, CA 92024. Demonstrations 1:30-3:30pm, and parking is free.  RSVP to Sandy Heath, Programs Chair at SDAGprograms@gmail.com.

Free Artists Listed Service with ARTIST ICON

Check out a new FREE online ARTISTS LISTING SERVICE called "ARTISTS ICON"

NO FEES, NO CONTRACTS . . . just a simple list to help artists market their work.

 

You can list your Artists Name, Medium & Web Site .  

 

Try it for FREE, "GET LISTED"  http://www.artistsicon.com 

Works in collaboration with Bob Coletti, California Art News.  bobcolettiart@gmail.com

www.bobcoletti.com

 

Artist Outreach Project Grant Program - Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation

The Artist Outreach Project (AOP) application deadline is July 31, 2013. Visual, performing and literary artists, 55 years of age and older, who live in Orange County and North San Diego County, are eligible to apply. 

The Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation will award up to 20 artists $12,000 to provide under-served groups with educational, mentoring, and/or therapeutic arts experiences of the artist's own design.  

These art experiences are intended to reach people of all ages who lack opportunities to engage in meaningful arts programs. Artists choose a nonprofit to collaborate with and the population they are interested in serving. Artists awarded the grant are expected to contribute an average of six hours a week to the people they are serving over the course of one year. 

“To all of you that have thought you might like to reach out into he community with your terrific art talents and projects, I can tell you, this program is “fantastic and one of a kind! So roll up your sleeves, get involved with your community and bring the best of what the arts can offer to others”, Cheryl Ehlers, past grant recipient.

Further details about the Artist Outreach Project can be found at: . Artists Program. Contact Victor Nelson at (949) 267-1517 or vnelson@picernefoundation.org for additional information.

More info: www.picernefoundation.org