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Art exhibition jurors
Joan Blackmer  Elaine French retired from the field of educational research and evaluation several years ago. This May she received her Master of Arts degree in Art History from San Jose State University. She has served on the Board of the San Jose Museum of Art. In addition, she is an active environmentalist and is a trustee of the Nature Conservancy of Idaho and serves on the Advisory Board of Peninsula Open Space Trust. Peter Lipman is currently President of the Board of Trustees at the San Jose Museum of Art, which focuses on collecting and displaying contemporary art and its sources in recent history. As an amateur in photography and ceramics and an appreciator of work by real artists, he’s collected works by local artists wherever he’s lived, including the East Coast, Colorado, Hawaii and Japan. back to top |
Invited Artists and Photographers Nature’s Inspirations Juried Exhibition Sunday, September 23, 2007, 4 – 6:30pm Home of Jan and Bob Fenwick, Los Altos Hills From a pool of 25 talented local artists and photographers, our jurors selected 6 to participate in the exhibition on September 23. Their works will be on display and for sale at Nature’s Inspirations. The Jane Gallagher Award winner: Alan McGee Portola Valley alanmmcgee@comcast.net  Alan received his MFA degree in Photography from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1974 and has attended workshops with Paul Caponigro, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and Brett Weston as well as extensive personal study with Oliver Gagliani. His photographs reflect Alan’s abiding love for the beauty of the Peninsula. To the extent they are successful, his photographs embody Kahlil Gibran’s phrase: “Work is love made visible.” “I think of my work as firmly based in the classic West Coast Landscape tradition that I use as a point of departure. My aesthetic aim is to present images with multiple levels of meaning. I am interested in exploring the energy that seems to exist between what is represented and what is implied in the photograph.” Alan McGee’s exhibition photographs back to top Tomiko Bailey Moss Beach tomikobailey@msn.com www.tomikobailey.com  As a child in Japan Tomiko loved collage, drawing, watercolor and she received top awards in three city art competitions. She taught herself for many years hoping to find a great art teacher some day. In her mid twenties, she moved to San Francisco and met her husband who was raised in the art world. Together they went to many art events around the world. They moved to Tokyo for eight years to live Japanese art and culture. Tomiko was attracted to study the aesthetic style of Zen temple cuisine along with the occasional tea ceremony in magnificent settings. She taught Temple cuisine in Tokyo and California for eight years and her students loved studying this artful cuisine of health, taste and beauty. A great desire to paint arose again in her heart in 1997 while watching her daughters growing up with dance, music and art here in Moss Beach, California. That year she painted still-life scenes and landscapes with acrylics. She slowly gravitated to classes in drawing, watercolor and oil painting. She met excellent teachers and was encouraged to join the California Academy of Painters where she learned “plein air” or “open air” painting. She favors the “alla prima” technique of completing a painting in a single session with thick coats of oil paints, a method used by many impressionists.She loves painting outdoors. It’s exciting for her to capture fresh impressions and to depict as much as possible in a few hours on location. California offers numerous beautiful places to paint with intense light from the sky accentuating the earth tones. Plein air painting allows her to work with concentration and spontaneity. She also works comfortably in the studio to compose larger paintings, which are mostly expansions of the smaller field studies. Member of: Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Los Gatos Art Association Summer 2007 shows: Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History Frank Bette Art Center in Alameda Morro Bay Art Association Gallery Mother Lode National Art Exhibition in Placerville Tomiko Bailey’s exhibition artwork back to top Tad Doxsee Palo Alto tad@taddoxsee.com www.taddoxsee.com  Tad Doxsee moved to the Bay Area in 1982 and has been hiking and riding his bike through its foothills ever since. “We Peninsula residents are so fortunate to have such a beautiful natural and recreational resource, right outside our back doors,” he says. When his interest in photography was rekindled a few years ago, it was a natural for him to take his camera up into the foothills. “I’ll often stuff my camera and tripod in my backpack and head out on my favorite trails on my mountain bike, looking for shots that capture the essence of the foothills experience.” Most of the shots in this exhibition were taken on just that type of outing. Tad has been an avid amateur photographer since his teens. A few years ago, he decided to focus more time and energy on his hobby and enrolled in black and white photography classes at the Palo Alto Adult School. “I found that I really enjoyed the process of working on my image with my own hands in the darkroom. It can be a long process to get the print just right, but I think it’s worth it.” He is also honing his photographic skills through his participation in the Palo Alto Camera Club. Tad’s favorite subjects are nearby landscapes, including the Peninsula foothills, the High Sierra and and the Sonoma County coast. (A self portrait, which won an award in this year’s Palo Alto Weekly photo contest, is an exception to the rule.) He currently uses a lightweight, medium format film camera. “It’s small enough to take anywhere but still has a large enough negative to get the level of detail and smooth tonal variation I like.” He processes his negatives and creates his prints using traditional methods in his own bathroom darkroom. Tad Doxsee’s exhibition photographs back to top Karen Leoni Burlingame karleoni@yahoo.com www.karenleoni.com  Karen Leoni is a local Bay Area artist who moved here in 1989 from Atlanta, Georgia. She was immediately struck by the natural beauty of the landscape and wanted to capture that beauty on canvas. Eventually this desire evolved into wanting to translate those special moments of the very warm early morning light or long shadows of dusk. This became the journey that is now her passion! “I feel very privileged to have the opportunity to live on the Peninsula surrounded by the magnificent landscape. Painting allows me to be more in tune with the seasons that subtly affect our local environment and as a result, I appreciate the entire experience that painting has offered me. It forces me to closely examine nature, which in turn allows me to integrate with it and enjoy the things that would have passed me by. Time slows down when you paint or draw. It’s magical.” Karen works with both oils and pastels and has taken instruction from local as well as internationally-acclaimed artists. She has studied at the College of San Mateo and the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She is a member of the Laguna Plein Aire Painters Assocation and the Los Gatos Art Association and is a 1st Place winner in the Los Gatos 2006 Open Juried Spring Show. In addition, Karen has been exhibiting her art in many other juried art shows and has participated in several local plein aire events. She also keeps busy with commission work for both landscapes and still life. She currently lives in Burlingame and her work can be viewed at WWW.KARENLEONI.COM Karen Leoni’s exhibition artwork back to top Julia Munger Seelos Redwood City julia_seelos@yahoo.com www.juliaseelosgallery.com  A powerful painter with a deep attachment to nature, raised in Kentucky, Julia Seelos paints to capture the beauty of the place with spontaneous brush strokes and vivid color. With her sure hand in composition and drawing skills, she takes the viewer to those special places in California and the West that capture her spirit. Artist and founding member of the Verde Artist Guild, Julia’s award winning paintings, have been jury selected for numerous national exhibitions including the American Impressionist National Shows, LAPAPA member shows, the California Art Club shows at the Women‘s City Club of Pasadena , the MBPAPA “Legacy Continues” exhibit at the Monterey Maritime Museum, the Steinbeck Center "My California", the Napa Valley Museum Plein Air Biennial, the Central Coast National Fine Arts Competition and numerous shows at the Pacific Art League and the SLO Art Center. Julia has been invited to participate in many of the west’s most prestigious plein air events including; San Luis Obispo Plein Air, Carmel Art Festival, Estes Park-Painting the Parks, Valona Plein Air, Alameda Jewel by the Bay, and festivals in Big Sur and Atascadero. She supports local non-profits where her works have been auctioned for charity including “Nature’s Inspirations” in support of Green Foothills, Save La Morinda Art Show, Woodside Symphony Garden Tour and the Hidden Villa Plein Air event. Julia studied at Rhode Island School of Design, Industrial Design at the University of Cincinnati and classical painting and illustration at San Jose State. After a successful international career in store and graphic design, Julia now has devoted herself to painting full-time. She has enjoyed painting trips down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, to Sedona and the Rocky Mountains. Julia works quickly in plein air using oils to catch the changing light and shadows of the Bay Area hills where she lives. The landscapes of Northern California and the rural country side of the Central Coast are her primary sources of inspiration. Julia Munger Seelos’s exhibition artwork back to top Kevyn Warnock San Mateo kevynw@earthlink.net www.kevynwarnock.com  Kevyn Warnock is a graduate of the University of Utah where she received a B.A. in Fine Arts. After a long artistic hiatus, she returned to art through study at the College of San Mateo in 1989 where she was introduced to landscape painting. Ms. Warnock’s work demonstrates a solid compositional foundation along with a sensitive distillation and rendition of what her artist eye perceives. The paintings work on several levels and seem to reveal fresh insights on each successive viewing. Warnock’s works have been shown throughout the Bay Area including competitive shows such as the Bay Arts, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto and she was one of the featured artists in the 2005 Peninsula Museum of Art, landscape exhibition. She has also achieved acceptance in major national competitions including several prestigious Utah Springville Annual Salons. Most recently she participated in an artistic cultural exchange with Chinese artists in two venues in China, Qu Fu and Chengde. Ms Warnock is a member of Gallery House, Palo Alto and is affiliated with The Studio, Burlingame. Her work is represented in corporate and many private collections. She maintains a studio at the 1870 Art Center where her work can be seen at annual Art Center events and by appointment. Kevyn Warnock’s exhibition artwork back to top Page last updated September 18, 2007. |
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