GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

Gallery manager, Mark Cody

Open Daily, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

SECOND SATURDAY ARTISTS RECEPTION

Meet and mingle with featured gallery artists. Artists receptions are held the second Saturday of each month and include fun, snacks, wine and, of course, fabulous art.

Next Reception: Saturday, July 11th
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Free Admission

 

 

june 2009

MAIN GALLERY

Mendocino Coast Garden Tour Poster Artists

Osborne art

Patricia Martin Osborne

In conjunction with the 17th Annual Mendocino Coast Home and Garden Tour, the Mendocino Art Center's Main Gallery exhibit features the artwork of Garden Tour poster artists, including Sunshine Taylor, E. John Robinson, Evie Wilson, Marion Bush, Janis Porter, Nancy Collins, Erin Dertner, Hope Stevenson, Patricia Martin Osborne, Paula Gray, Helen Reynolds, Julie Higgins and Hilda Pertha.

Sunshine Taylor art

Sunshine Taylor

For more information and images visit our main gallery page.

 

ABRAMSON GALLERY

Joan Burleigh & Sonya Popow
"New Work"
Abstract Paintings & Clay Sculpture

Burleigh art

I work abstractly from my feelings, from experiences that have affected me, and also from my deep love of nature.† I don't know what the painting will be until it begins to emerge and I work with what appears, giving form to the chaos and building the piece into a painting that will, hopefully transmit a feeling to the viewer.

I paint to reach the place within me that is free of controls and boundaries, where on a fortunate day, my spirit can soar.

– Joan Burleigh

Popow art

I started out as a functional potter and often begin sculptures on the wheel. I fire them in a brick box in my backyard using sawdust and redwood duff for fuel.
Over time, my work has loosened to reflect my interest in the forms of the natural world and in the interconnectedness of all life.  Looking closely at the world around me, tiny details become huge and abstract.  My first sculptures were human-sized; these have evolved to a more intimate scale.  I hope for pieces that evoke some mysterious found object ñ a seed, a leaf, a shell, a bone.  If I am successful the viewer will ask, “Where did you find it” and, “Can I touch?”

– Sonya Popow

For more information and images, visit our Abramson Gallery page.

 

NICHOLS GALLERY

Eric Larson
"Mendocino Harmony in Landscape and Detail"
Photography

Larson art

On my first trip to Mendocino, almost 25 years ago, I came up with my family from Southern California seeking something new from our usual treks to the Big Sur Coast and Carmel. While the trip left a lasting impression on me, it would take more than 10 years before we would see the place again.  A move to Northern California in the mid 90s made it possible for us to visit more frequently, and over the last 10 years, I began exploring the place with my camera. 

Captivated by the well preserved historic charm of the place, I trained the camera primarily on the architectural treasures within Mendocino Village. I was interested in how perfectly the village sat within its natural settings. This place that seemed never to change over the many years of my visits was such a contrast to the over-developed manicured world I came from.

It would take several years for me to expand my vision to include the natural setting surrounding Mendocino Village, first with coastal and forest details and more recently with photographic panoramas.  These explorations revealed more clearly a balanced sense of place echoed through landscape and detail. This harmony of light, texture, and color is the magic I find in this place, and is what I have sought to capture in these images.

–  Eric Larson

For more information and images, visit our Nichols Gallery page.

 

coming in July

MAIN GALLERY

Gail Rushmore
"No Boundaries"
Clay & Multi-Media

NICHOLS GALLERY

Art Explorers
"New Works"
Paintings from 16 students

ABRAMSON GALLERY

The Art of Marge Stewart
Cloisonné, Digital Art, Fine Art & Photgraphy

GALLERY TEN

Silvia Heyden
Tapestries

 

coming in august

MAIN GALLERY

Members' Juried Exhibit
All-Media

download a call for entry (pdf)

NICHOLS GALLERY

Jake Early
"Highway One"
Serigraphs

ABRAMSON GALLERY

Mariko Irie
"Mendocino Coast Scapes"
Watercolor Paintings

 

 

coming in september

MAIN GALLERY

Sue Siskin
"My Life Adventure in Painting: 1951 to 2009"

NICHOLS GALLERY

Peter Dobbins
Photography

ABRAMSON GALLERY

Monday Morning Painters
Plein Air Paintings

 

 

coming in October

MAIN GALLERY

Bob Ross

NICHOLS GALLERY

Dave Friedman
"That's Entertainment"
Photography

ABRAMSON GALLERY

 

 

coming in November

MAIN GALLERY

Mark Oatney
"Retrospective"
Photography

NICHOLS GALLERY

ABRAMSON GALLERY

Charles Lobdell
"Nature Abstracts"

 

 

coming in December

MAIN GALLERY

2010 Exotic Calendar Artwork
Photography by Larry R. Wagner

NICHOLS GALLERY

Paul Reiber

ABRAMSON GALLERY

 

art Zacha Sculpture Garden
Commemorative Walkway

Buy a tile in the
Zacha Sculpture Garden Commemorative Walkway and become a part of Mendocino Art Center history. When you purchase an engraved tile you will ensure a permanent remembrance of a friend, a loved one, a pet, or commemorate a personal experience at the Art Center.

 
visit Bill Zacha's Bay Window Gallery

Dorr Bothwell Galleries

cat

Dorr Bothwell's serigraphs are on sale in our Gallery Shop. All proceeds go to the Scholarship Fund. To order please email Gallery Manager Mark Cody
or call 800 653-3328, ext 20.

dorr's online gallery

dorr's cat Gallery

For more information about the Mendocino Art Center's scholarship fund and other ways to contribute to the art center's future, click here.

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