Q-n-A with Squeak Carnwath

Opening Reception

Melissa Morgan Fine Art

73-040 El Paseo (at hwy 74)

Palm Desert, CA 92260

Thursday, January 5, 2012

5:00 – 7:00pm

 

Beverly Hills Art Show–Affaire In The Gardens

The Beverly Hills Art Show– Affaire In The Gardens Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills – from Rodeo to Rexford Drive May 21 and May 22, 2011 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Email: artshow@beverlyhills.org Website: www.beverlyhills.org/artshow Hours: Saturday – Sunday, 10am-6pm

Greg Kucera Gallery EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT

“Specter,” 2011, oil on wood panel, 60 x 36″

Darren Waterston: Kingdom Through May 28, 2011 Deborah Butterfield: New Sculpture June 2 – July 30, 2011 Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2, 6-8pm 212 3rd Avenue South Seattle, Washington 98104 Phone: (206) 624-0770 Fax: (206) 624-4031 Email: staff@gregkucera.com Website: www.gregkucera.com Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:30am-5:30pm

DARREN WATERSTON: Kingdom Through May 28, 2011 Greg Kucera Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent oil paintings on panel, sculptures and gouache paintings on paper by artistDarren Waterston. The exhibition, titled KINGDOM, will feature several large scale oil paintings depicting animals, some realistically rendered, others ghostly or minimally suggested, in abstracted, open landscapes alluding ambiguously to water, earth, and air. The works use the form of the animal to explore states of being and becoming, metamorphosis, dematerialization and decay. The animals appear in landscapes that are in constant flux, the materiality of the animal’s body always marking the paradox of a being’s concrete existence in inherently unstable time and space. Freed from predictable cycles of birth, life, and death, the animals in the paintings may be victims of the atmospheric upheaval that surrounds them, or they may be products of it; but they are never ontologically apart. -Darren Waterson The twenty-three works on paper constituting the Bestiary, derive from the medieval bestiary tradition, in which a finite number of known species—as well as mythological creatures—were catalogued encyclopedically. Here the animal body itself is in a state of transition, in flux, and without boundaries. While the shapes of these animals are individually recognizable, their forms are stacked and tangled and begin to meld into one another. The exhibition’s three sculptures are similar in their stacking of flora and fauna and detritus from the natural world. By turns monstrous, fanciful, or abstract, the animals merge into composite forms bringing forth strange fellowships between species normally separated by geography, time, or the line between fact and fiction. As a genre, the medieval bestiary not only constituted a natural history of creation, but also participated in a rich tradition of the moralizing allegory, the animal kingdom providing apt figures for human behavior, human folly, and the stark reality of the postlapsarian human condition. -Darren Waterson Also, Darren Waterston will have an upcoming exhibition Forest Eater, at both the Contemporary Museum and Honolulu Academy of Arts in Honolulu, HI from May 27 – September 11, 2011. DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD: New Sculpture June 2 – July 30 An opening reception for the artist will be from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., June 2, 2011. We are pleased to announce a special, two month exhibition of new sculpture by Deborah Butterfield, her 9th one-person exhibition with the gallery since 1991. Throughout the gallery, inside and out on our sculpture deck, we will show three large standing bronze horses and at least four small standing bronze horses. MADROÑO Originally built of sticks and branches from the madrona, this work was patinated to resemble the deep reds and oranges of the bark of this lovely Pacific Coast tree. Butterfield has recently been experimenting with mixing quite large tree chunks and trunk pieces with smaller, more delicate branches in her work. This sculpture displays this extreme juxtaposition, rendering the horse both solidly concrete and airily abstract at the same time. The gestural quality of the horse is enhanced by the painterly patina Butterfield uses to depict the particular beauty of madrona bark. It’s rare to see this much color, particularly red, in Butterfield’s bronze work.

“Bestiary No. 1,” 2010, gouache on paper, 14 x 10″ Deborah Butterfield, “Madrona,” 2009, unique cast bronze with patina, 86 x 117 x 26″ Deborah Butterfield, “Untitled,” 2011, unique cast bronze with patina, 31 x 33 x 11″

William Miller Design Presents SAVAGE ARCHDEACON GALLERY ROADSHOW

William Miller Design Presents
SAVAGE ARCHDEACON GALLERY ROADSHOW

Please join us on Friday, April 29, for this fantastic show featuring Palm Springs Art from
The Savage Archdeacon Gallery Palm Springs
Refreshments served!

Time
Friday, April 29 • 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Location:
William Miller Design
70020 Highway 111
Rancho Mirage

For more information, call (760) 770-9199

PURVIS YOUNG Art Exhibition at Colin Fisher Studios on 4/15/11

For More Information CLICK HERE

About Purvis Young 

Inside Art – A few moments at The Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery

Inside Art a Video Series Exploring
The Who-What-Where…And WHY!? Art Happens
Hosted By Muti-Media Artist RJ Taylor
Melissa Morgan Fine Art Palm Desert
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Jose Luis Moreno Ballesteros Art Opening

Jose Luis Moreno Ballesteros Art Opening

FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE

Time: April 7, 2011 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Melissa Morgan Fine Art Gallery
Street: 73-040 El Paseo
City/Town: Palm Desert, CA, 92260
Website or Map: http://melissamorganfineart.com
Phone: (760) 341-1056