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For Love of The Land Photographer Lance Kuehne
When, as a high schooler, Lance Kuehne won regional photography awards, you might say “something clicked.” Although he didn’t realize it yet, he was destined to become a recognized photographer, documenting the North Bay landscape. The Pottery Barn has sold his rural scenes, Editions Limited produced posters of his country road images, and Image Conscious of San Francisco has just licensed his Hills of Green image for reproduction. “At times,” Lance grins, “I marvel that I am able to refer to the North Bay’s bucolic back roads as my ‘o ce.’ Amid this ever-lovely landscape is where I do most of my photographic work, although, from time to time, other areas of California do beckon.”
Call To Artists:
Feb 1 - Mar 30 ~ Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza Street, Healdsburg, CaliforniaPop!ThePowerofPrintmaking healdsburgcenterforthearts.org/artist- opportunities/calls-for-artist/.
Feb 17 ~ Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza Street, Healdsburg, California Deadline for entries: Feb 17 - Show date: Mar 18 Art of Gastronomy II healdsburgcenterforthearts.org/artist- opportunities/calls-for-artist/
thru - Feb 23 ~ The Petaluma Arts Center a call for Entries for the AprilExhibition,theNeuwPolitic: Artist client.smarterentry.com/PACCA
thru Apr 22 ~ GRO Artist Fellowships Artists 21 to 35 are invited to apply for a GRO Fellowship for 2017-18 - Fellowships include a solo exhibition and group exhibition opportunities. Deadline is April 22. Info at Gallery Route One or galleryrouteone.org/call- to-artists/.
Art Classes
Feb 1 & 15 ~ Cloverdale Arts Alliance Gallery 204 N. Cloverdale Blvd. - 7– 9p $5 -$7. Seating is limited to the first 40 participants. Call 894-4410, or visit cloverdaleartsalliance.org, .
Shows/Galleries
We are always updating our calendar - please send your announcements to vesta@sonic. net
Feb 1 - Mar 5 ~ sMALL Works Exhibition - Artists Reception Feb 4, 2-5p - Graton Gallery: 9048 Graton Road, Graton - 707-829-8912 - Open Tuesday ~ Sat. 10:30 -5pm, Sun. 10:30-4pm - info@ gratongallery.net - gratongallery.net
Feb 2 - 27 ~ Nancy Martin - Jeweler, Arts Guild of Sonoma 140 E. Napa St, Sonoma CA Reception Feb 35-7p-artsguildofsonoma.org- nancymartinjewelry.com
Feb 3 ~ Guerneville - 1st Friday Art Walk - Art walk 3 -8 pm and beyond! Artist receptions, rotating exhibits, live music. Merchants open til 8pm. Blue Door Gallery and other artists will be facillitating free Heart- Making projects the day/evening. -Downtown Guerneville - Main Street -
Feb 3 ~ Santa Rosa - 1st Friday Art Walk - Downtown Santa Rosa art galleries and studios are open for the monthly First Friday event. 5-8pm Free musical entertainment Chroma Gallery.312 South A Street
Feb 4 - Mar 2 ~ Cantos: Songs for a New Year - Erickson Fine Art Gallery 324 Healdsburg Ave. Healdsburg, Carol Setterlund Reception Sat. Feb 4th 5:30-7:30p ericksonfineartgallery.com707-431-7073
Feb 4 - Mar 17 ~ “Tribute” - The Alchemia Gallery and Studios a two-person show, Timothy Shorten and Lisa Van Dalen.Reception on Saturday, Feb 4, from 4-7 pm. Alchemia Gallery - 111 Kentucky St. Petaluma
Feb 7 - Mar 20 ~ Jupiter Moon presents “Animal Magnetism” Featuring Mylette Welch - Reception: Sat Feb 11, 4:30-6:30p - {A Percentage of proceeds will be donated to benefit Sonoma Humane Society} Jupiter Moon Art- 507 S Main St, Sebastopol (707) 634-6304 hours vary
Feb 10 ~ Outsider Art Discussion - Trends in contemporary art culture that places less emphasis on formal training, as well as the terminology that classifies artists with disabilities. 5pm, The Alchemia Gallery and Studios are located at 111 Kentucky Street in Petaluma.
Feb11-April30~OutsideVoice:Tarp Paintings by Marc Katano -expands his meditative practice of painting by scaling his work beyond the human body. Reception Feb 11 4-7p Free for Members, $15. non members- Art Museum of Sonoma County, 505 B Street Santa Rosa, -sonomacountymuseum.org (707) 579-1500
Feb 17 - Mar 26 ~ Birds: One Inspiration- Five Visions - 5 artists inspired by their love of birds. Sebastopol Center for the Arts - 282 S. High St. Sebastopol. Reception: Feb 17, 6-7:30p
Primeval Woods
For most of his career, Lance has been a purist. Even after switching to digital photography and thus having to develop images in the computer, Lance was intent on sticking to the standards of documentary photography, portraying each image as he remembered it and without “artistic interpretation.” However, Lance has nally given in to his creative urges. “I’ve now discovered how exhilarating it can be to give one’s own creative twist to an image, so I have begun to explore color shifts, lter e ects, etc. While this is stimulating, I don’t think it is going to fully replace my proclivity for the more natural rendering of nature’s handiwork.”
Lance is Featured Artist for the Winter Show at Riverfront Art Gallery. In this show, Altered Reality: Photoshopped or Not?, he will tease viewers, challenging them to look at his images and guess whether they have been simply developed digitally or have been “photoshopped.” Of course, all digital images have to be processed
Sonoma Hillside Shadows
Feb 17 - Mar 26 ~ “Reflections and Shadows” - This juried exhibition focuses on the duality of light and dark, and on reflections of every kind, including the introspective or narcissistic ones. Sebastopol Center for the Arts 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol - Call 707 829 4797 or catherined@sebarts. org Reception: Fri. Feb 17 - 6p-7:30p
Feb 18 ~ Tricia Rissmann @ Terra Firma Gallery 452 First Street East, On the Plaza Suite “A” Sonoma sonoma@terrafirmagallery.com www. terrafirmagallery.com 707-938-2200
Continuing Shows:
Sebastopol Center for the Arts 282 S High St, Sebastopol, CA 95472 www.sebarts. org (707) 829-4797More Information: Contact Catherine Devriese, Visual Arts Director, (707)829-4797 catherined@ sebarts.org
Thru Feb 18 ~ Mostly Monochrome - a group exhibition of over 80 Digital Grange artists in various media - Ice House Gallery 405 East D St.Petaluma, CA (707) 778-2238
Thru Feb 19 ~ Beginnings - Gallery Route One is a nonprofit art organization presenting exhibitions of artwork and serving the community throughits Artists in the Schools and Latino Photography Project.Please support GRO/Gallery Route One. - 11101 Highway One, Ste. 1101Point Reyes Station, galleryrouteone.org
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Thru – Feb 12, 2017 MARVELOUS!
Photoshop since digital sensors only record data, not images. But, as Ansel Adams often did in the chemical darkroom, a major function of development software is to allow the artist to render the image according to his own vision. “Nobody asked Ansel
Adams whether his images had been ‘dark-roomed’,” Lance quips.
Lance’s featured works will range from images that are basically as photographed, such as Primeval Woods, ones where he has recreated a past look, as in Golden Gate with its retro e ect, and ones where he has simply strengthened the existing mood, such as in Sonoma Hillside Shadows, “Where,” Lance points out, “I wanted to give the image the more intense color that sometimes happens when afternoon light suddenly slants in below departing rain clouds. Accomplishing that required a bit of pushing the color and contrast. But other interpretations in the show are more subtle.” This show runs through March 5, 2017, with an Art Walk reception on Saturday, Feb 11, 5:00 to 8:00. Come and meet
To learn more, see Riverfront Art Gallery’s website: riverfrontartgallery.com. In the Fall of 2007, Lance founded the gallery along with co-owner Jerrie Morago.
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Lance in person and enjoy his new works.
Feb 17 ~ Open Studio at Fulton Crossing
Fulton Crossing tenants will open their studios to the public 5p-8p - Fulton Crossing 1200 River Rd, Fulton