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19/1/2010

Project a 5

Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara

“PROJECT A 5” is a special anniversary show celebrating five years of ARTAMO GALLERY. Over a dozen gallery artists, including Pollock-Krasner and Prize of Rome Award winners, together with four selected guest artists are creating special works for the occasion and will present their artistic interpretation of the five years anniversary theme, including a unique 10-pieces series of pigment prints by digital and moviemaking artist Metrov. All pieces will be in a square format between 24" x 24" and 48" x 48".
At the First Thursday reception a free raffle will be held to give away a new monotype by Jack N. Mohr, titled "High Five".

About the artists:

JANET BOTHNE grew up in Massachusetts and studied Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her career includes restoration, portraiture and illustration, and painting commercial murals. 1996 she came to Los Angeles to work as a graphic designer, but quit her job to paint full-time now.

AGUSTIN CASTILLO, born in San Jose, California, lived most of his life in Mexico. He is strongly influenced by both cultures. His work is amazingly crafted using different types of materials and methods, building layer upon layer of paint and textures.

AGNES CSISZAR (guest artist), born in Budapest, Hungary, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree the Teacher’s College of Zsambek. She took up teaching, while working with numerous art galleries and designers but moved to Los Angeles in 1995. Her career includes fine art restoration, portraits, murals, landscapes and working in the commercial and film industries as an illustrator/designer creating architectural renderings and onsite paintings for celebrity events. Her latest passion is abstract painting.

PATRICK DINTINO, born in San Francisco and a life-long Californian, holds three degrees in art and is a 2004 recipient of the highly appraised Pollock-Krasner grant. His spectrum paintings, composed of broad, blended bands of color, produce a captivating plethora of shades, tones and hues.

PEGGY FERRIS (guest artist) comes from Los Angeles and studied art at UCSB and ventured off to Holland for two years to study at the Royal Academy of Art and also worked as a graphic designer. After her return she enrolled at Art Center College of Design and then worked in the design industry for several years, later moving to Santa Barbara, where she phased out her design work and turned to abstract painting.

MADELINE GARRETT came from the Philadelphia area to Santa Barbara in 1993. She earned a B.A. cum laude in Sociology and studied graduate level economics and finance at Villanova University before participating in art workshops in Santa Fe and taking intensive art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and Santa Barbara City College.

JOHN GOETZ, born in Basel, Switzerland, grew up in Canada. His parents moved there when he was seven. He studied at the Sheridan College of Art & Design and also at the Ontario College of Art, both in Toronto, Canada. He lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

FRANÇOISE ISSALY, born and raised in France. She studied at the Universities of Montpellier and Bordeaux, France where she earned her M.A. in Plastic Arts. Her compositions are made of squares, circles and/or triangles that seem to be individually linked but are separated by neutral space.

MICHAEL KESSLER, from Pennsylvania, now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He won several prestigious awards and fellowships (American Academy in Rome, Pollock/Krasner, Whitney). His work is in 24 museums nationwide, e.g. the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and in a seemingly endless number of corporate and private collections. Kessler’s handling of surface texture is strikingly accomplished.

ELANA KUNDELL, a California native, creates imaginary environments in the abstract that are based on emotional rather than physical spaces. Working in oil, she intuitively develops the surfaces of her paintings, which occupy an ambiguous zone between what is seen and what is felt.

HYUNMEE LEE, born in Seoul, Korea in 1961, completed her B.F.A. in painting at Hong-Ik University and received her M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Sydney, Australia. Following a successful career in South Korea, she came to the United States and became a Professor at Utah Valley State College. The paintings of Hyunmee Lee exhibit a profound expression of the emotional, spiritual, and cultural dimensions attainable through abstraction.

DAN LEVIN (guest artist) lived as a child on a small island in the Atlantic. As inhabitant of Block Island, he had to bring all refuse to “the dump”, where an old man enlightened him with the adage that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
From that moment forward, his template recognition was altered. Rust-caked, post-tech flotsam and jetsam begging to be melded with nature’s slough and fallen debris became a vision for him reminiscent of a puzzle with no particular solution.

METROV, from Southern California, studied art history and filmmaking. He developed his drawing and painting skills and in New York he worked as a designer and fine arts painter. He also studied under Prix di Rome scholar Gilbert Stone and collaborated with director Abel Ferrara on feature length motion picture projects. In the 80’s he moved back to Los Angeles to continue to paint, write and make films.

JACK N. MOHR, from Berlin, Germany, earned his M.A. at the State University for Creative Arts in Berlin. Mohr who came to California in 1997 is mainly known for his abstract expressionistic paintings, his ceramic wall-sculptures, and for combining uncommon materials in his work.

MICHAEL MOON, from Southern California, studied art at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena and UCLA after earning his M.A. in Educational Psychology. Influenced by Eastern thought and meditation, he began to integrate Eastern and Western thought in the symbolism of his work.

JULIA PINKHAM, rooted in Santa Barbara, designed clothing, jewelry, and created prints for a textile company. She wrote and illustrated Nature Encyclopedia coloring books and her paintings of endangered species were published worldwide on greeting cards and T-shirts. Julia’s work is strongly influenced by nature, the ocean in particular.

JACK REILLY, a Professor of Art at California State University Channel Islands, came from Florida to Los Angeles in the late 1970s. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and numerous other awards. His works are in major collections internationally. His acrylic compositions are based on mathematical structures and interact with the non-regular shapes of his canvases.

MICHELLE Y WILLIAMS from Houston, Texas, works on canvas, metal, acrylic glass and wood. She paints exclusively with a palette knife and uses various materials in her mixed media work, including acrylics, oils and sand. Her intention is to evoke an emotional response with her work.

NORTON WRIGHT (guest artist), studied at Yale University with Bauhaus painter Josef Albers. He attributes his regard for color to that master painter. After a career as television producer he returned to fine art.

ARTAMO Gallery, now five years in the same location, is a destination for contemporary art in Santa Barbara. Located only 100 yards from the Museum of Art the Gallery contributes to the revival of the historical downtown art district and helps building a gallery row on both sides of Anapamu Street. ARTAMO Gallery shows contemporary art by regional, national and international artists in solo and group exhibitions, including painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media. The gallery represents Teri Blodgett, Janet Bothne, Agustin Castillo, Patrick Dintino, Madeline Garrett, John Goetz, Gordon Huether, Françoise Issaly, Tamar Kander, Michael Kessler, Elana Kundell, Hyunmee Lee, Metrov, Jack N. Mohr, Michael Moon, Taraneh Mozafarian, Julia Pinkham, Jack Reilly, Mick Reinman, Suha Sin, and Michelle Y. Williams.

ARTAMO Gallery, a substantial part of the Santa Barbara art scene and art community, participates in local art events, especially the Santa Barbara First Thursday Art Nights.

ARTAMO Gallery is a member of the Santa Barbara Art Dealers Association (SBADA)

Opening reception february 4, 5-8 pm

Artamo Gallery
11 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara USA
Gallery hours: Tues–Sun, 12–5pm, First Thursday until 8pm
free admission

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