Happy New Year from the
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts!

We are starting the New Year off with exhibitions that challenge us to view the world with a renewed sense of wonder.

before our very eyes, features new work by Dianne Bennett, an Ojai artist who has created art her entire life as a process of expressing, understanding and communicating her experience.

 

Phyla features recent sculptural work by Louise Hibbert and Shane M. Keena. While the two work in different media – Hibbert in wood and paint and Keena in ceramics, they share a similar aesthetic approach and love for the natural world.

The Outsiders features work by Reverend Howard Finster, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver and others. Outsider artists are known to be visionary and eccentric, with extreme mental states, religious visions, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.

 

These three exhibitions will be presented
January 9 – February 28, 2010

The Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, January 9th from 2 – 5 pm and will feature a performance by Xavier Montes. The public is invited to attend.

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The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts celebrates the life and work of Beatrice Wood while presenting exhibitions of contemporary art, workshops and events. The Center, housed in the Happy Valley homes once occupied by Beatrice Wood and her good friend Rosalind Rajagopal, features a permanent exhibition sharing Beatrice Wood's life story with memorabilia, her collection of folk art and wonderful examples of her ceramic art. Changing exhibitions feature work by contemporary artists. To learn more about our current exhibition, click here.