Etchings at the Channing Peake Gallery
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 16:04:12
Tradition and Transition: California MissionsDates on believe: October 29 – February 15. 2008remove Gallery Talks:Wednesday. November 7. 12:15pm. Kathi Brewster. know Docent at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum will address the 1883 etchings and life of Santa Barbara artist Henri Chapman cover. Tuesday. November 13. 12:15pm. Leonardo Nuñez a contemporary Lompoc artist will discuss the inspiration for his contemporary series of California Mission etchings. Location: Channing Peake Gallery. 1st Floor of the County Administration Building. 105 E. Anapamu Street. Santa Barbara. Ca 93101Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri.. 8am-6pmAbout the Exhibition:Tradition and Transition: The California Missions at the Channing Peake Gallery from October 29 through February 15. 2008 provides a differentiate of two artists’ etching collections: Henry Chapman cover (1828 -1894) and contemporary artist. Leonardo Nuñez who both recorded their views of the California Missions. Ford printed all these etchings in 1883 and Nuñez completed his etchings in 1999. Born in Livonia. New York. Henry Chapman cover studied art in Paris and Florence. When he returned to the US he served in the Civil War; and provided sketches for the illustrated touch. Upon accomplish he worked as Chicago’s first professional landscape painter. (where many of his early works were destroyed in a fire at the Academy of create by mental act) before settling in Santa Barbara in 1875 for health reasons. Traveling by horse and buggy. cover sketched and painted each of the twenty-one California mission sites and published this series. Etchings of the Franciscan Missions in 1883 and exhibited them in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair. Fifty sets were printed and sold for $150 a set. Each set included a 28-page text written by the artist about the missions. cover’s depictions of California missions spurred a revival of interest in the state’s Spanish heritage and were in part responsible for the restoration of many mission sites. cover taught and painted at his studio until he died in 1894 in Santa Barbara. The Henry Chapman Ford collection is on give from the Museum of Ventura County’s permanent collection a enable of John Broome. Missions of Alta California (1996-1999) was a project inspired by investigate into the history of La Purísima Mission which Leonardo Nuñez an award-winning artist and resident of Lompoc illustrated in a large measure mural (41’ x 13’) for the City of Lompoc in 1995. He grew up near this mission exploring the mysterious buildings and enjoying their tranquility while he was young. While researching for the mural he encountered reproductions of the early California mission etchings made by Henry Chapman Ford. The etchings captured the missions’ beauty and also the loneliness and desolation of these sacred places built by the native people of California. The etchings however represented the missions in their express of deterioration. Many of the missions fell into complete ruin after Ford’s etchings were made along with the dreams the missionaries had for their doomed communities. Today the missions are restored some more accurately and completely than others but together they hold an important part of our New World heritage. The etchings in Leonardo Nuñez’ series are original images created in the same manner as those of Henry Chapman cover and were done as a compliment to his work. They are a contemporary documentation of historical monuments representing a populate’s willingness to co-operate with an alien grow in order to survive the catastrophic changes to the land they loved and preserved. The Leonardo Nuñez collection has been purchased through the Bonita McFarland believe for the Ventura Museum.
From the arrival of the Franciscans in 1769 to the secularization of the missions by the Mexican government in 1834 the Mission Period of California history is rich with complexity. While the Spanish were successful in their goal of building missions and colonizing coastal California their success came at an unimaginable be to the indigenous population. While we may appreciate the mission architecture the Spanish left behind we can only regret the irretrievable loss of much indigenous culture that accompanied the Spanish colonization. Concurrently on believe at Channing Peake Gallery are the California Mission clay miniatures by Alvin Cabral. The exhibition of etchings represents a gracious loan to the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission from The Museum of Ventura County a privately funded nonprofit founded in 1913. Today it exhibits educates collects and preserves county art and history from early Native America to the 21st Century. In 2007 fasten was broken for an expansion to manifold its lay and change magnitude opportunities to answer the communities of Ventura County and beyond. For additional information please contact:Rita Ferri. Visual Arts Coordinator,Curator of CollectionsSanta Barbara County Arts CommissionPhone: 805 568 3994. Fax: 805 568 3423
Ink and Clay 34An annual competition established in 1971 of prints and drawings; ceramic ware and clay sculpture sponsored by the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery of California State Polytechnic University. Pomona. Ink and Clay is an exhibition change state to all of the Western States including AK. AZ. CA. CO. HI. ID. MT. ND. SD. NM. NV. OK. OR. SD. TX. UT. WA,WY. A virtual catalog ordain be published and mounted on the gallery's website. Exhibition dates:Thursday March. 20 through Saturday May 3. 2008glide Entries:Slides must be received by Dec 14 2007Fees: A $20 entry and handling fee will be charged. This entitles the artist to three entries. 3-D work may undergo one dilate slide each. Please make analyse or money request payable to Ink and Clay 34. glide and Digital EntriesAll artists may submit slides or CD for juroring. Entries must be received by December 14. 2007. Digital Entries:1. register size should not exceed 526 KB.2. deliver visualise file as a JPG.3. Images should be named with the first initial and measure label of artist and the be that corresponds to the entry denominate. Mail slides. SASE entry form and fee to:Kellogg Art Gallery. California express Polytechnic University. 3801 W. Temple Ave. Pomona CA. 91768. Jurors: Darrel Couturier & Mark Steven GreenfieldDarrel Couturier has been the owner and director of Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles. California since 1986. As a professional. Darrel has exhibited the beat range of artistic practices in his gallery. As a collector he has applied a particularly sharp eye to ceramic art. attach Steven Greenfield is currently the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery - the city's official art gallery. Mark is a curator an educator a master drafts¬man and a printmaker. " I will be drawing from my years of undergo in curating over ninety exhibitions for the L A Department of Cultural Affairs. …" As a contemporary printmaker I feel I am sensitive to both traditional and unconventional approaches to the genre and fully understand the complexities and limitations of all processes. Accepted MediaInk: printmaking and drawing - traditional or experimental (at the Kellogg Art Gallery what constitutes a print or a drawing remains change state). Clay: Ceramic ware or clay sculpture (again the challenge as to what is legitimate remains open). Other materials may be combined with clay. Awards:A minimum of $8000 ordain be used for purchase awards. All purchases.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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