WCA Member Felicia Forte Participates in Upcoming San Francisco Group Show!

You are most cordially invited to attend the OPENING RECEPTION for "DOLLHOUSE" Bay Area Juried Exhibition Saturday, December 4th, 7-10PM - featuring 33 Bay Area artists EXHIBITION DATES: December 4, 2010 - January 15, 2011 FEATURED ARTISTS Richard Bolingbroke, Jan Brugger, Elizabeth Cayne, Taylor Crawley, Miles Epstein, Kat Flyn, Felicia Forte, Paul Gibson, Kevin Grady, Audrey Heller, Liesa Lietzke, Erin Malone, Stephani Martinez, Kristine Mays, Jessica McCoy, Kaitlin McSweeney, Beth Mullins, Camilla Newhagen, Danielle O'Malley, Celena Peet, Archil Pichkhadze, Lucky Rapp, Anne Ross, Maja Ruznic, Tracy Sengillo, Kirsten Stolle, Yuriko Takata, Rusty Tea, Stephen C. Wagner, Linda Wallgren, Sharon Wickham, & Greg Wilson DOLLHOUSE Dolls are substitutes for humans, and are used in both childhood and adult play. A plastic doll, robot, sock monkey, paper doll, rag doll, nutcracker, marionette, soldier, voodoo effigy and blowup sex toy, they are all repositories of our fears, fantasies, and desires. We love them, we fear them; we cherish them, we tear them apart; we talk to them, they talk to us. We imbue them with our imaginary life and in return they transport us into their worlds. For the Holiday Season, Arc Gallery will be figuratively transformed into a giant dollhouse for one-of-a-kind dolls and dollhouses. Artists are invited to liberally interpret their concept of 'dolls' and 'dollhouses,' and bring to life a creature or world from your wildest imaginings. JUROR Jack Fischer is the owner of Jack Fischer Gallery at 49 Geary in San Francisco . His gallery exhibits work from a diverse group of artists that fall under the rubrics of 'outsider, folk, contemporary, naive, visionary, self-taught, and intuitive.' Visitwww.jackfischergallery.com JUROR'S STATEMENT "I once heard someone say ' there is nothing funny about a clown after midnight.' I think the corollary in this case would be: ' there is nothing cute or sweet about a doll after an artist has their way with it.' Try as i might to add to this statement of what the doll show is about and why I chose the way I did I am stymied by my inability to add to what the artists have already." - Jack Fischer

This drawing titled "Waitress" 8"x 10" graphite on paper, by WCA member Felicia Forte will be published in the 3rd Edition of the "Strokes of Genius" a book on drawing, by North Light Publishing in 2011.

See more of Felicia's work at:

http://www.feliciaforte.com/

http://feliciaforte.wordpress.com/

Sketchy History of One Image from the Gulf Coast

A Sketchy History of One Image from the Gulf Coast

One image from all the coverage of the BP disaster in the Gulf haunted me for weeks. It was a great Pelican arising up from the ooze, crippled and dripping black from the oil. I first worked the idea out on my last two sheets of Indian Mill handmade watercolor paper. I used Derwent sketching dark wash pencils. Prior, I had been experimenting with, new to me, watercolor canvas. Deciding it was not for me, at least with this image, which by now had become rather important, a bit of an obsession. I had some regular gesso-ed oil linen canvas. In experimented with my watercolors on the canvas I decided the linen was much more successful than the watercolor canvas for my painting methods. Thus a small 8 by 10 watercolor on linen canvas, "Collateral Damage, 2010" came to be. The sketches and final watercolor piece are shown here.

Alysanne McGaffey

cubberley artists

http://www.cubberleyartists.com/Series.php

Golden State of Mind exhibit at the Milton Marks Gallery, SF 10/21/10

Through the Lenses – Diverse Perspectives at the Avenue 25 Gallery is an exhibit of past and present students of the College of San Mateo Photography Program.

The exhibit is from November 15, 2010 to January 7, 2011.

The artist reception is on November 12, 2010 from 6 to 8 pm

We’ll be glad to see you!

Felicia Forte is Giving a 2 Day Portrait Workshop!

http://www.feliciaforte.com/workshops.html

Leigh Toldi's Solo Show

Leigh's show is a hit!

Her work has amazing detail and sensitivity. Here's a just glimpse of the immense body of work that she has produced.

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*you can still see the show if you missed it: http://avenue25gallery.plsinfo.org/

**and check out Leigh's blog: http://toldileigh.blogspot.com/

26th Annual Juried Show at The Coastal Arts League, in Half Moon Bay

The Coastal Arts League invites artists to submit entries to the 26^th Annual Juried Show, juried by Fred Holle. Entry deadline is November 15, 2010. Visit the website www.coastalartsleague.com to download the entry form, or send a SASE to Marian Yap, 5 Cape Breton Court, Pacifica, CA

Peninsula Women’s Caucus for Art - Art Exhibition “Golden State of Mind”

Showcasing the work of California Women Artists. An Exhibition that is 100% Women!

SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 1, 2010 – The Peninsula Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art present a member exhibition titled “Golden State of Mind”, curated by WCA, displaying the work of California women artists. The exhibition will be held from October 18, 2010 through January 28, 2011 at the Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries, San Francisco. The public reception and opportunity to meet the artists will be held in the Galleries on Thursday, October 21 from 4-5:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public.

“Golden State of Mind” includes artwork by 19 emerging and professional women artists. The 38 works on display cover a broad range of media, including painting, mixed media, textiles and photography. Organized around the theme of a “Golden State of Mind”, the show explores the artist’s interpretation of living within California, both the glamorous and the seedy; the idealized golden land and the realistic, gritty view from the street level. The artists also capture the sense of innovation in this area and local personalities. ”Regardless of the artist’s media, their individual work speaks to the uniqueness and strength of their message on “Golden State of Mind” says Tanya Lin Jaffe, exhibition coordinator.

About the Women’s Caucus for Art

Founded in 1972 in connection with the College Art Association (CAA), WCA is a national member organization unique in its multi-disciplinary, multicultural membership of artists, art historians, students /educators, and museum professionals. The mission of the Women's Caucus for Art is to expand opportunities and recognition for women in the arts.

WCA is committed to education about the contributions of women, opportunities for the exhibition of women's work, publication of women's writing about art, inclusion of women in the history of art, professional equity for all, and respect for all individuals without discrimination and support for legislation relevant to our goals. For more information visit: www.nationalwca.org

About Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries

The Milton Marks Conference Center Galleries is located on the lower level off the Hiram Johnson State Office Building, 455 Golden Gate Ave., in San Francisco.

For additional information:

Ellen Lee, 650-591-2801

elstan@comcast.net

http://peninsulawca.blogspot.com/