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PRESS RELEASE Event Dates: June 4-5, June 11-12, 2016 (Saturday and Sunday) 10am–5pm NEW ARTIST SNAPSHOTS 2016: Live from New York... it's Barbara Stout. Studio # 44 Barbara has lived in Sebastopol since December, coming from Oswego New York, where she was a full-time artist and taught drawing part-time at the State University of New York. She has shown her work internationally at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou and in Australia, and in galleries on both coasts of the USA. Her well-lit and charming studio on Palm Avenue shows her watercolors to advantage. She uses warm, meditative earth tones laid on contoured paper, often several ripped sheets layered in a collage. Her themes come from the natural world: sea, sand, trees, pebbles and leaves. Leaves are a common theme in her work, sometimes startling yellows that surprise among the quieter colors, sometimes overlaid in an abstract design against another motif, such as a pair of hands suggestive of in prayer. The Chinese influence is evident in the designs, in the tree set on a cliff overlooking the ocean, for example, and with her use of Chinese seals found in the corners of her paintings which carry meanings, such as “Listen with the heart”. Now that she has moved back to the coast that inspires her, the local environs have become prominent in her newest work. Painting: Watercolor collage and ink wash Showing at: 7382 Palm Ave. Sebastopol, CA 95472 www.barbarastout.com 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 Linda Galletta, Executive Director 707.829.4797 [email protected] Monica Bryant joins Art At The Source Studio #73 Monica Bryant admired Christo’s Running Fence while a student at the University of Hawaii, and she was delighted to move to Sonoma County in 1979. She has since taught art for more than 20 years in the county’s high schools and institutes. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries from Singapore to San Francisco, and of course, in many local venues and events such as Art Trails. Her work is highly distinctive and personal. She has recently revisited The Beauty Project, which reunites eleven artists’ concerns for feminist issues in a San Francisco exhibit called Glass Slipper to Glass Ceiling. Her work includes large installations and murals (she was the lead Artstart artist in 2002, for the Press Democrat Mural The 50 Who Shaped the 20th Century in Sonoma County), and smaller, personal pieces made from papier mache, watercolors or mixed-media images from her time in Singapore. Currently, she works with Photoshop to marry photographic images with acrylic and watercolors. She says, “I use Photoshop to crop, zoom, and change colors. I create digital images from photographs or my drawings. I print them (or have them printed) and then glaze layers of paint.” Mixed Media: Mixed media paintings, drawings and objects Showing at: 3840 Finley Ave., Bldg 33, Room 208, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 www.monicabryant.com 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 Linda Galletta, Executive Director 707.829.4797 [email protected] Karen Ryer: Seventy and still going strong. Studio# 55 Karen describes her work. “I used to do classical pieces. A lot of eggs. They’re a wonderful shape, full of meaning. And figures. Like that one over there. That’s a 1000 pound piece of marble.” She points to a white female figure about five feet tall. “I’m collaborating with a student on that piece. But I don’t have the strength I used to have and now I’m mainly doing funny things to put in your garden. I’m experimenting with applying color to the marble. I’m making things to put stop signs in. People would come by and look over the fence and see these small sculptures in my flower beds and want them.” It’s not a surprise people want them. Her work is graceful and flowing, with clean lines and perfect finishes. She moved from Guerneville a couple of years ago where she had a gallery and, for twenty years, supplied stone from Italy and Brazil to sculptors all over the States. She now concentrates on selling high quality sculpting tools and “making funny things to put in your garden”. While this is not her first Art at the Source open studio stour, she is returning from an absence. Seventy and still going strong! Sculpture: Stone carving abstract & figurative Showing at:970 Cunningham Rd., Sebastopol, CA 95472 www.karenryer.com — Interviews by participating artist Mike Laflin 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 Linda Galletta, Executive Director 707.829.4797 [email protected] Media Contacts: Dennis Bolt / AATS Publicity Chair and artist (contact for images, interviews, press releases, etc.) [email protected] 707.829.3722 Linda Galletta, Exec. Dir, Sebastopol Center for the Arts [email protected] 707.829.4797 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 Linda Galletta, Executive Director 707.829.4797 [email protected]
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