SCA June Program
Opening reception for our summer art exhibition
"SCA Banks on Art"
All members and friends welcome:
Saturday, June 7, 11 am - 1 pm
at:
Wells Fargo Bank, second floor
260 Ocean Blvd.
Laguna Beach, CA
Friday, May 30, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Invitation to SCA Members Announcement
From Jay Sagen and the Coastline Community College
To participate in an art exhibition this summer at:
Coastline Art Gallery
10156 Adams Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
Entitled: “Drawing”
July 10 – Early August, 2008
Thursday – Saturday, 1pm – 5pm
Artists’ Reception: Friday, July 11, 5pm – 7pm
This will be a show limited to drawing media only (no paintings or color works)
To participate in an art exhibition this summer at:
Coastline Art Gallery
10156 Adams Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
Entitled: “Drawing”
July 10 – Early August, 2008
Thursday – Saturday, 1pm – 5pm
Artists’ Reception: Friday, July 11, 5pm – 7pm
This will be a show limited to drawing media only (no paintings or color works)
UPDATE ON 5/22/08: Jay has revised his request for drawings to be only very large drawings, such as on butcher paper. The wall height is up to 9 ft vertical.
Curated by SCA member, Jay Sagen, CCC Gallery Curator
Show funding is approved by the CCC Exhibitions Committee
No entry fee, gallery gets 25% of selling price
Size limited to 9 feet vertical, and ready to hang.
Invited artists will be selected from Coastline Community College students and SCA.
SCA publicity will be coordinated with Jay Sagen.
SCA members are asked to volunteer to gallery sit for a ½ day period during the show.
The intent is to show strong traditional drawing and experimental drawing works.
SCA members interested in showing, please E-Mail your intent to enter and to set up an art review appointment with Jay Sagen at: jsagen@coastline.edu
Jay stated that he will be available most Fridays before the show, but apply as soon as possible. About 25 – 45 works will be shown.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Art Review – HBAL Art Exhibition
As art groups go, the Huntington Beach Art League is gigantic, currently with more than 250 members. So this year’s show at the HB Central Library is a blockbuster in size and diversity. Awards and ribbons are given in six categories – oil and acrylics (more acrylics now than oils), mixed media (anything goes), watercolor (largest group), pastel and drawing (mostly pastel, drawing is passé), sculpture (smallest number of works), photography (the reality stuff), digital photography (processed anything goes). Sadly, as in my case, no categories or ribbons for abstract art. I overheard someone say that religious art and abstracts should be excluded as an affront to esthetics.
My favorite piece in the show is a nose-on close-up of a bulldog, an oversized sleeping hulk ready to slip off the canvas. Alas again, it won no prizes. But I had the opportunity to talk with the artist, who is an HBAL member and a long time nude model for all the local colleges and universities. She confessed to me that she did the work from a photograph, which is an unforgivable sin to life drawing models. The judges must have known that bulldogs do not pose nose-on.
You may suspect that this review is biased by my concern for the non-awarded artworks, especially for my own abstract. However, for a library show where public taste is a deciding factor, I have to agree that tradition and standards like depictions of small children and landscapes with barns deserve to be awarded, and these are in accordance with community demographics, taste and propriety. Thus, this show is a must-see at the library level and is inoffensive to no one.
My favorite piece in the show is a nose-on close-up of a bulldog, an oversized sleeping hulk ready to slip off the canvas. Alas again, it won no prizes. But I had the opportunity to talk with the artist, who is an HBAL member and a long time nude model for all the local colleges and universities. She confessed to me that she did the work from a photograph, which is an unforgivable sin to life drawing models. The judges must have known that bulldogs do not pose nose-on.
You may suspect that this review is biased by my concern for the non-awarded artworks, especially for my own abstract. However, for a library show where public taste is a deciding factor, I have to agree that tradition and standards like depictions of small children and landscapes with barns deserve to be awarded, and these are in accordance with community demographics, taste and propriety. Thus, this show is a must-see at the library level and is inoffensive to no one.
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