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Event Highlights to Include:

Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College: Colin Gray
Oct. 3 through Oct. 31
A survey of the work of artist Colin Gray, with a focus on the drawings that he has become known for as well as older sculptures and the new tapestries produced by John Nava's venture with Magnolia Editions in Oakland.
721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara / 805.965.0581 x 3484

Book Den: Bookworks: Pamela Zwehl Burke
Oct. 2 through Nov. 5
Local book artist Pamela Zwehl-Burke exhibits her rare collection of book objects.  Motivated by the productive tension and intimacy of one-of-a-kind and limited edition book objects, Zwehl-Burke uses etched text and images, digital prints, charcoal drawings, and more to create unique book art both large and small. 
15 East Anapamu St., Santa Barbara /
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County of Santa Barbara Arts Fund: Nicholas Price: Modest Motif, Complex Construction
Oct. 3 through Oct. 31
The Arts Fund’s 2007 Individual Artist Award recipient in Printmaking, Nicholas Price, attributes his interest in modular printing to a creative impulse that “has always been tied to my desire to work with my hands…to physically change something.” In this new series of intaglio-style monoprints, layers of overlapping plates reveal minimal forms, subtle color and rhythmic texture. Achieving a unique melody between process and image, the emerging patterns subtly affect a weaver’s hand. 
205 C Santa Barbara St., Santa Barbara / visit gallery / 805.965.7321

EAST/WEST GALLERY: Bristol: 100
Oct. 1 – Dec. 31 2008
This photographic exhibition celebrates the life and work of Horace Bristol, one of the original LIFE magazine photographers and the impetus for John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize winning epic The Grapes of Wrath.
714 Bond Avenue, Santa Barbara / visit gallery


Edward Cella Art + Architecture: Ann Diener: Cathedrals of Commerce
Oct. 2 – Nov. 9
Informed by the changing landscape of Central California, Ann Diener investigates the visual changes created by successive generations of agricultural development from the early farms of the German Irish to the predominantly Latino agricultural
workers of today. 10 E. Figueroa Street, Suite 3, Santa Barbara / visit gallery / 805.962.5900


Matador Restaurant: Susan Tibbles: Conundrum
Oct. 2, 5 PM to 7 PM
Matador Restaurant with the support of the William T. Colville Foundation hosts a Off-Axis reception for assemblage artist Susan Tibbles. Tibbles has had an active career as a professional artist for almost twenty years. Her Los Angeles Times collection of illustrative compositions is traveling through museums and universities for educational purposes – both historical and political. Matador will prepare a sampling of their Latin fusion based tapas. 714 State St., Santa Barbara.   


International Dairy Cooperative: Artist Happening #2 and Open Studios
Oct. 10, 6 PM to 10 PM
In the tradition of our last Off-Axis event, the IDC will be holding another artist happening on Friday, October 10th with live music and performances, art work, and artists installations. On Saturday October 11, the IDC will have their Artist Studios opened for viewing from 1 PM-5 PM.  128 West Ortega St., Santa Barbara / visit gallery

The Lit Moon: World Shakespeare Festival
The Lit Moon Theatre Company is an independent, laboratory theatre company that integrates aesthetic experimentation with cross-cultural interaction and understanding. The Lit Moon World Shakespeare Festival is the only festival of its kind in the United States, and one of only seven in the world. visit gallery

Marcia Burtt Studio: Improbable Landscapes
Aug. 30 – Oct. 12
A show of 24 works on paper by Jean-Pierre Hébert include digital prints and graphite drawings, offered in the format of panoramic landscapes.  These works are insights of structures found in a mental and spiritual world of mathematics, theoretical physics, and cosmology–structures that are as real as the observable California landscape. 
517 Laguna St., Santa Barbara / visit gallery

Patty Look Lewis Gallery: Eastern Abstraction Meets Western Space and Color
Oct. 2 – Oct. 31
Patty Look Lewis Gallery will be featuring the works of Patty Look Lewis and Channing Peak.  Both artists are inspired by the nature and the landscape of Santa Barbara County. Peak also draws from the deserts of Mexico and Inyo County, whereas the work of Patty look Lewis is shaped by her early childhood in Japan.   25 East de la Guerra St., Santa Barbara / visit gallery

Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College: Language Skills: the Art of the Expanded Print
Sept. 4 through Oct 25.
Featuring the work of Martha Johnson, this show is an exploration of the expanded print format, which begins with separate print matrixes that interweave at points to form a narrative of connections.  In the process, the pieces explore positive and negative space, peripheral vision, and depth and time perception.  955 La Pazz St., Santa Barbara / visit gallery

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum: Jean-Pierre Hébert: Drawing with the Mind, organized by Elaine LeVasseur and BLOOM PROJECTS: Julien Audebert.
Aug. 30 – Nov. 11
CAF will present a major, solo exhibition by Santa Barbara artist Jean-Pierre Hébert, In the early 70’s, Hébert became one of the world’s first artists to co-opt computer code as an essential medium. Expressing ideas in lines of code Hébert then then “proves them” by teaching a variety of computer-driven devices to create drawings for him, resulting in an oeuvre that is simultaneously amazing, beautiful, and meditative. For Bloom Projects, CAF will feature the work of Paris-based artist Julien Audebert. Audebert’s work questions the mass reproduction of imagery by challenging the limits of printing. Miniaturizing text to the point of total abstraction, Audebert returns to the tradition of micrography. Retranscribing the Bible, great speeches, and major works of critical theory in this abstracted form to indicate towards the fall of ideologies and the limits of perception.
653 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara / visit gallery / 805.966.5373


Santa Barbara County Arts Commission:
Edge: Santa Barbara County Contemporary Artists and State of the Art Gallery 2008
Oct. 2 – Jan. 16
The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission presents Edge, organized by curator and art dealer Ro Snell. The exhibition features non-representational work by the area’s best-known artists, all with a unique edge at the Channing Peake Gallery. The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission also announces the installation of eight regional artists’ sculptures for the upcoming State of the Art Gallery 2008 Exhibition (SOAG 2008). This project is a unique collaboration between the City and County of Santa Barbara and the Downtown Organization, with major funding from the City of Santa Barbara Redevelopment Agency. Curated by Dean Anes, the Director of Acme Gallery in Los Angeles, the finalists will create large-scale sculptures to be on view during Off-Axis on State Street, in the heart of the Cultural Arts District. Friday, October 3rd, from 1pm to 3pm, walk State Street and meet the eight artists at their sites who have pushed themselves to create sculptures that will delight, challenge or inform all those who visit
105 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara / 805.568.3990

Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Ten!
Sep. 27 – Jan. 2009
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art celebrates the gifts made possible by PhotoFutures, a collecting group now in their tenth year. Showcased in this exhibition are important areas of focus within the museum’s photography collection: contemporary acquisitions such as works by Mike and Doug Starn and Joan Fontcuberta, California masters, and Western Pacific Rim artists.
1130 State Street, Santa Barbara / visit gallery / 805.963.4364

Sullivan Goss: 10 Under 30
Oct. 4 – Nov. 9
In the spirit of Off-Axis, Sullivan Goss will select 10 artists under the age of 30 to show new work in our third gallery. Also on view during Off-Axis, Taos-based painter Jack Smith will show almost 40 new works. Smith uses media from Dutch masters to create contemporary paintings that are sensible to contemporary photography, German Expressionism, and contemporary identity politics.  Also showing is East Coast Realism, a survey of the resurgence of American realism on the East Coast.  Various curators are helping our Director of Contemporary Art, Susan Bush, to identify the current masters.

University Art Museum UCSB: Santa Barbara Adobes: Art in Old/New Contexts
October 18, 2008
Join us for a special day-long tour showcasing unique art and design collections in historic and contemporary adobe homes. Visited sites will include period adobes from Santa Barbara's Spanish/Mexican past as well as twentieth-century re-interpretations by architects and designers.  Organized by Kurt Helfrich, Curator of the University Art Museum's Architecture & Design Collection, this event includes transportation to and from the sites, private tours of each home and art collection with its designer/owner, a catered lunch, and a concluding late afternoon reception in one of the host houses.  Reservations are required; space is limited to 30 participants. The tour begins at 9:30 AM For information and to reserve tickets, please call the University Art Museum at 805-893-2951 by September 30. No cancellations will be accepted after that date. Proceeds from this event help support the University Art Museum's Architecture & Design Collection.

This fall, University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara will serve as an off-site venue for the Orange County Museum of Art’s 2008 California Biennial.  For the past four decades, the California Biennial has presented new developments in California art.  As a collaborating venue, the University Art Museum will showcase projects by Anna Sew Hoy, Shana Lutker and Brenna Youngblood, three young L.A. artists who are already receiving national attention.  Join us for a reception with the artists Oct 29 from 5 PM to 7 PM.  University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara