Page 70 - Sonoma County Gazette Janaury 2019

“Place” @ Cloverdale Arts Alliance Exhibition Opens January 19 with an Artists’ Reception 5 to 7:30p Cloverdale Arts Alliance Gallery, 204 North Cloverdale Blvd., Cloverdale cloverdaleartsalliance.org - (707) 894-4410
Jan 5 - Jan 27 ~ 2019 Annual Member’s Exhibit - Perspective and Insight. Free, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza Street, Healdsburg, 707- 953-2380, healdsburgcenterforthearts. org/2019-annual-members-exhibit/, info@healdsburgcenterforthearts.org
Jan 5 - Jan 27 ~ A Lifetime of Art in Shirley McVoy’s Garden - Gualala Arts Exhibit. With no burden of professional necessity, Shirley was free to experiment and try out new media. Free, M-F 10a-4p, Gualala Arts Center, 46501 Old State Highway, Gualala, gualalaarts.org/2019/01/a-lifetime-of- art-in-shirley-mcvoys-garden/
Jan 7 - Apr 29 ~ “California’s Wild Gold” Mixed Media Nature Tapestries by Faith Rumm - Mixed Media Nature Tapestries by Faith Rumm Free, m-f 9a-5p, 3:00p - 5:00p, Laguna Environmental Center, Heron Hall, 900 Sanford Road, Santa Rosa, 707-527- 9277, Moira Hill, lagunafoundation.org, moira@lagunafoundation.org
Jan 9 - Mar 3 ~ Riverfront Art Gallery Winter Show- Arial photographer Brian Cluer; photographer Alexis
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Guest artists for this exhibit are sculptor Luann Udell and painter Timothy David Dixon. Resident artists include Laura Paine Carr, Jane Gardner, Pamela Heck, Terry Holleman, Paul Maurer and Hanya Popova Parker. Ralph Broussard, digital collage, is the featured resident artist for “Place.”
Jan 4 - Jan 27 ~ The Classical View - Lisa and Thomas Prosek botanical paintings and nudes by Lisa Prosek & landscape watercolors by Thomas Prosek. Free, M-F 10a-4p, Gualala Arts Center, 46501 Old State Highway, Gualala, gualalaarts.org
Jan 4 - Jan 27 ~ Unchained Art: Promises and Dreams - Art by incarcerated artists curated by Wendy Reiswig Bailey & Leslie Lakes. Free, M-F 10a-4p, Gualala Arts Center, 46501 Old State Highway, Gualala, gualalaarts.org
Jan 4 - Jan 27 ~ A lifetime of art in Shirley McVoy’s garden - McVoy never sought to be a professional artist, instead working for the joy of creativity and the personal challenge of exploring new techniques and subject matter. Free, M-F 10a-4p, Gualala Arts Center, 46501 Old State Highway, Gualala, gualalaarts.org
For more information, visit cloverdaleartsalliance.org or call (707) 894-4410.
Timothy David Dixon, painter
Oil painting has been the primary focus of his creativity for the last thirty plus years. Now in his most productive period of creativity, Dixon produced sixty paintings in 2017. His awards are numerous, including a ‘Best of Show’ in 2017 at the Napa Town & Country Fair and a Second Place in the Marin Fair Plein Air competition that same year.
In addition to the CAA Gallery, Dixon is currently showing at: Hand Goods in Occidental, Woodenhead Wines tasting room near Forestville, Creekside Cafe in Boyes Springs, Ca., Les Pascals Pattiserie and Glen Ellen Mercantile in Glen Ellen, Ca., and by appointment at his studio.
“Painting is my passion and my purpose in Life.” ~ T.D.Dixon
Luann Udell, sculptor
Artifacts from a lost culture whisper, “Remember us”...
I gaze at museum exhibits of ancient pottery, bone tools, textile fragments too worn and tattered to touch. Carefully labeled and tenderly mounted in temples of glass, they seem to speak to us in whispers of a time long forgotten, artifacts of a people lost to us in
antiquity.
I create fragments from such a lost culture, an imagined prehistory.
I dream of the cave of Lascaux...
its beautiful paintings of running horses, aurochs, and deer, born by the flickering light of torches over 17,000 years ago. Never meant to be seen by the light of day, they were brought to light in our lifetime.
Then they were nearly destroyed by the breath of a thousand visitors.
The cave was closed again, and
sealed. Lost. Found. And lost again. We do not understand the mystery
of these paintings, nor what they
meant to those artists who created
them. Their message was not meant
for us. But their power and beauty create profound echoes in our modern hearts. Who knows what ancient, yearning dreams of hope made these haunting images? Ten thousand years from now, who will hold the makings of our hands? And who will know the mysteries of our hearts?
Ralph Broussard,
I spent the first 27 years of my life on Bayou Lafourche in Southern Louisiana. Surrounded by swamp & marsh, the memories of my early years there have always been a driving force in my work. T
digital collage
Timothy David Dixon’s “Abalone Shell #12” 24” x 30 @ Cloverdale Arts Alliance Gallery
Call to Artists
thru Feb 27 ~ Cloverdale Sculpture Trail - A $1,000 “Best of Show”, “Honor Mention” and “Peoples’ Choice” Cloverdale, 707-894-4929, cloverdalesculpturetrail.org
thru Feb 5 ~ Student Artists (ages 3-17) ArtWalk for student pieces on 3/1/19, the theme is “Love, Kindness, Unity.” Entry deadline 2/5/19. RiverbedYoga, 14016 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, 707- 604-6912, riverbedyoga.com
Show: Feb 1 – Mar 22, 2019. Drop off submission Saturday or Sunday, January 26or27,noonto3p. EntryFee:Members $15, Non-members $20, Santa Rosa Arts Center, 312 South A Street, Santa Rosa, 707-526-0135, santarosaartscenter.org
Jan 26 - Jan 27 ~ Santa Rosa Arts Center
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he uniqueness of the area with its festivals and parades such as Mardi Gras and Carnival Balls, has been flavored with a thriving Laissez les Bon Temps Roulet philosophy and way of life.
It is helpful to say that I am a symbolist