Holiday Exhibition 2022
Marcia Burtt, Waterfall, Big Sur Coast, acrylic, 20x18 in.
December 2, 2022 through January 29, 2023
Celebrate the holidays with paintings and photographs by our gallery artists! Each artist falls in love with nature in a different way, helping us reimagine the landscape as we shift from one vision to another.
Pamela Zwehl-Burke's studies of shells, plants, and pods constitute a chronicle she creates from tokens found on her walks and hikes. With each venture out, she brings back part of the landscape. Her still-life tableaux hint at Dutch Vanitas paintings, but she replaces opulent wine goblets and cut flowers with nature's remnants.
Adventure is part of the process in Bill Dewey's aerial photography. In Clouds over Gaviota, he places it in the foreground. The wing of his Cessna frames a canopy of clouds falling over the Coastal Range onto the Gaviota foothills below. The evidence of his small plane in the vista reveals his vulnerability in the spectacle surrounding him, invoking the sublime.
Trekking to overlooks and rising tides, our artists who paint en plein air interpret unique moments of light and color on paper and canvas. Various media let them open a door for us into their experiences, enhancing our way of seeing and inspiring our own outdoor explorations.
Pamela Zwehl-Burke, Still Life #47, gouache, 4.5x12 in.
Pamela Zwehl-Burke, Still Life #56, gouache, 5x15 in.
Bill Dewey, Clouds over Gaviota, photograph, 13.5x20.5 in.
