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 / visit gallery
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 |
