Among the artists presented in this exhibition are: Dianne Bennett, Luis Bermudez, Christina Carroll, Magie Smith-Fleisher, Richard Flores,
Pam Guhrs-Carr, Lucy Madeline, Terry Martin, Dena Palser, Robert Rheem, Xavier Montes,
Marilyn Richeda, Joan Rosenberg-Dent, Francis Scorzelli, Carroll Simpson,
and Nina de Creeft Ward.
Please join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, March 13, 2 – 5 pm
Public Invited - Come and meet the artists!
View On-line Exhibition |
Carroll Simpson
"Fugue" |
_____________________________________________________
Mark your calendars for these other upcoming exhibitions
April 3 - 11, 2010
Logan Gallery: Kim Faust, New Photographs
April 17 - May 1, 2010
Logan Gallery: Tamarind Rossetti, New Paintings
These three exhibitions will be presented
January 9 – February 28, 2010
The Opening Reception was held on
Saturday, January 9th
and featured a performance by Xavier Montes. |
, 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.
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.
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.
Click Here for More Information!
|
Fred Yokel "That's a Keeper" |
Fred Yokel
"How'd This Happen" |
Fred Yokel
"Self Portrait" |
_____________________________________________________________________
Works by Ben Wilson, Evelyn Wilson, and Joanne Jaffe
The opening reception was held Saturday, November 14, 2009
View on-line exhibition
_____________________________________________________________________
SPECIAL EXHIBITION
Special Exhibition, to support the Besant Hill School,
presented on two consecutive weekends,
Oct 24th & 25th and Oct 31st & Nov 1st
with an Opening Reception, Saturday, October 24th, 2 – 5 pm.
Chi Birmingham was raised in California and attended the Besant Hill School (then the Happy Valley School) from 1998-2001. He earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing in 2005 from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and is currently pursuing a MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts. |
"Bushwick"
Acrylic on paper, 30" w x 22" h |
"Kitchen in Morning Light"
Oil on canvas, 28" w x 30"h
|
“I tend to work from a mental image of my subject matter, rather than from direct observation. I find that this tends to focus my attention on those details that best represent my subjective experience of a place or moment. Cataloguing the small tricks the mind plays as it tries to recall the way a room looked is one of the pleasures of my studio practice.” |
_______________________________________________________
|
Featuring members of Ojai Studio Artists,
in conjunction with their annual studio tour.
View Exhibition!
The Opening Reception was held Saturday, September 5, 2009
|
Carol Clarke - "Sespe at Dawn"
|
Bernadette DiPietro
"Underwater Chumash" |
|
|
Opening Reception was held
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
from 6:00 - 9:00 pm
|
On Saturday, May 16th, "Standardized Stupidification," a collaborative installation by Besant Hill School students, under the direction of Lucia Vinograd, and artist Robbie Conal will open at the Center. The student installation will be presented alongside Conal's guerilla art and posters.
|
As many of you are not able to attend our exhibitions, we always present them online with photographs and videos. We are creating a short documentary film of the students working with Robbie Conal and the resulting exhibition. |
|
CLICK HERE FOR DRIVING DIRECTIONS
|
_____________________________________________________________________
Book Cover
Every Exit is an Entry: The Life and
Work of Liam O'Gallagher
|
Exhibition in the Logan Gallery
|
New Book!
Every Exit is an Entry: The Life and Work of Liam O’Gallagher
Order on-line!
Click for more information. |
A Group Exhibition
Featuring recent works by Ojai artists including Richard Amend, Dianne Bennett, Elisse Pogofsky-Harris, and David Reeser.
|
David Reeser Composition
|
The Opening Reception was held on
Saturday, March 14th |
_______________________________________________________
Cheryl Tall
Palazzo di Tea |
The Opening Reception was held on Saturday,
January 17, 2009.
|
Artists featured in the Beatrice Wood Ceramic Annual include Julie Bagish, Patrick Crabb, Angela de Mott, Diana Farrell, Lindsay Feuer, Richard Flores, Joanne Jaffe, Marsha Judd, Shane Keena, Youngshin Kim, Laura Langley, Tom McMillin, Kevin Myers, Allison Newsome, Ricky Maldanado, Frank Matranga, Jennifer McCurdy, Dora Savignac, Cate Shelley, Vincent Suez, and Karl Yost.
|
Lindsay Feuer
Hybrid 'Mergence' No. 3 |
Click Here for Driving Directions to the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts!
_____________________________________________________________________
November 1 - December 31, 2008
Donald E. Frith
Donald E. Frith
"Teapot #680"
|
Donald E. Frith
"Teapot #709"
|
In the Beato Gallery we will be presenting teapots by Donald E. Frith, a retired professor of ceramics who has been working in ceramics for more than sixty years. Look at each of Donald Frith’s works with a careful eye, and enjoy the combination of technical expertise he uses in porcelain, precious wood, and acrylic, to create a small teapot. Then, go back and look again. And remember, they’re not only incredible works of art, they pour very well! |
"Beyond the Teapot"
Richard Flores
"Stormin' Norman Teapot"
|
In the Logan Gallery will be "Beyond the Teapot," an exhibition of sculptural teapots by artists including Richard Flores,
Allison Newsome, Cate Shelley,
Charles Sherman, Linda Smith,
Myra Toth, Kathy Waggoner,
Nina deCreeft Ward, and Fred Yokel. |
Necklace by Sooz Glazebrook
|
Earrings by Sooz Glazebrook
|
Educated at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand, and exhibited internationally, Sooz Glazebrook lives and works in Ojai. She is a ceramist and painter who creates earrings and necklaces using ceramic techniques, including raku and lusters, combined with fine silver PMC. Each of her jewelry pieces have been fired multiple times to create unique wearable art.
The Opening Reception took place on
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
|
_______________________________________________________
September 6 - October 26, 2008
Opening reception was held on Saturday, September 6th
|
Sharon Doughtie |
Pat Kramer |
|
Sharon Doughtie |
Pat Kramer |
|
|
|
Joseph Shuldiner |
Joseph Shuldiner |
|
Paintings by Beatrix Rohlsen
Beatrix Rohlsen
"Passionate Trees" |
A native of Austria, raised in Germany, Beatrix Rohlsen now lives in the mountains above Santa Barbara. An abstract painter, her “atmospheric landscapes” reflect nature’s ever-changing and diverse landscapes through an abstract array of color, light and design. “My greatest teacher as a child was the natural world around me,” Rohlsen says. “Therefore, as an adult, I found myself incorporating the essence of nature throughout most of my paintings.” |
Rohlsen’s paintings will be presented as part of an ongoing
“Foyer Focus” series, at the entry to the Center.
View more paintings by Beatrix Rohlsen |
_________________________________________________________________
The Opening Reception on Saturday, September 6th featured
a trunk show of recent jewelry by Kirsten Muenster
Kirsten Muenster |
Kirsten Muenster |
San Francisco artist Kirsten Muenster creates wearable landscapes inspired by nature and its signals of growth, rebirth and change. The Japanese refer to the observation and appreciation for the cycle of life as wabi-sabi. This simple aesthetic, embracing the beauty in imperfection and the elimination of the non-essential, is a guiding principle in the artist’s work. Similarly, the artist is guided by a love of the natural world. “I am drawn to the rich diversity of colors and patterns in the stones I use,” Muenster explains. “I love exploring rock formations, fossils, tree rings, fractals and nature's simplicity expressed in its irregular lines and shapes.” |
Kirsten Muenster
_________________________________________________________________
Southern California songwriter William Barnhill performed
on the patio during the Saturday event.
His “Blues Fusion” sound is no doubt a reflection of his early years spent in Memphis, Tennessee writing songs and playing with local musicians. An interesting blend of acoustic guitar, blues rhythms and lyrical interpretations of current events, his original music is soulful and poetic as well as lively and upbeat. Barnhill has written and recorded the sound score for the feature-length, environmental, animated screenplay Children of the Morning Sun. His current album project, Better Late Than Never, shows his maturity as a songwriter and musician. His melodies and lyrics elicit feelings from deep reflection to exuberance as heard in his new single Happy Times. |
William Barnhill |
_________________________________________________________________
Also at the Saturday Reception: The Channel Islands Woodturners
 The Channel Islands Woodturners are the Ventura County Chapter of the American Association of Woodturners. Members will be on hand demonstrating woodturning and carving techniques during the Saturday event, as well as exhibiting their work.
_______________________
Al Geller, Member of the
Channel Islands Woodturners
|
_________________________________________________________________
View performance by William Barnhill at the Opening Reception for "A Celebration of Nature," featuring interviews with Sharon Doughtie, Pat Kramer, and Joseph Shuldiner.
|
|
|
_______________________________________________________
The exhibition features leading California ceramic artists, including:
_______________________________________________________
Opening Reception was held Saturday, May 10th
|
Richard Amend
|
Richard Amend |
Richard Flores |
Richard Flores |
|
|
Allison Newsome |
Allison Newsome |
|
The Opening Reception on Saturday, May 10th featured a trunk show of recent jewelry by Elaine Unzicker
Elaine Unzicker |
Elaine Unzicker |
|
_______________________________________________________
|
"Then it Rains", by David Reeser |
New Work Exhibiting Artists:
"el mirage", by Dianne Bennett
|
_______________________________________________________
A showcase for the finest contemporary ceramic art celebrating Beatrice Wood's spirit of experimentation, self-expression, and originality.
Saturday, January 12th, 2008, 2:00-6:00 pm
Public invited - Come and meet the artists!
View Exhibition
|
Joanne Jaffe
Harry Poliak
|
View our 2007 Exhibitions
View our 2006 Exhibitions
|
