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
MAIN GALLERY
Mendocino Coast Garden Tour Poster Artists
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.
For more information and images visit our main gallery page.
ABRAMSON GALLERY
Joan Burleigh & Sonya Popow
"New Work"
Abstract Paintings & Clay Sculpture
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
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
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.
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
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
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
MAIN GALLERY
Bob Ross
NICHOLS GALLERY
Dave Friedman
"That's Entertainment"
Photography
ABRAMSON GALLERY
MAIN GALLERY
Mark Oatney
"Retrospective"
Photography
NICHOLS GALLERY
ABRAMSON GALLERY
Charles Lobdell
"Nature Abstracts"
MAIN GALLERY
2010 Exotic Calendar Artwork
Photography by Larry R. Wagner
NICHOLS GALLERY
Paul Reiber
ABRAMSON GALLERY
