Williams Gallery West Press ReleaseApril, 2003 |
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Artspace Gallery 40680 Highway 41 Unit B2 Oakhurst, CA 93644 attached to Williams Gallery West |
phone (559) 683-5551 web-site: www.galwest.com |
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Artspace Grand Opening Exhibition on display from April
12th to May 12th, 2003 to read more about ARTSPACE Gallery
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We are thrilled to announce the grand opening of ARTSPACE Gallery, our new collaborative gallery space. The reception will include musical entertainment, delicious comestibles, good company, and a delightful exhibition of photography, painting, ceramics, and sculpture by nine Central California artists. Participating artists include photographers David Ashcraft, Keith Sauer, John Rogers, and Heidi Vetter, painters Richard and Frankie Powell, Ceramic artists Adrian John Castelo and Tiwi Wood, and sculptor Norma Rogers. |
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About the Artists
David
Ashcraft David
Ashcraft is an accomplished fine art photographer and gallery owner.
Ashcraft sees the creation of art as a form of active meditation.
Each work of art becomes an emotional or spiritual footprint of where he
has been, where he is, or where he is going.
For David, photography is about the freedom to feel and to
express what he feels, a means of giving birth to emotions and feelings
that cannot be easily expressed through other means. |
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Adrian John Castelo Adrian John Castelo is both a painter and a ceramist. While painting is his first love, he is an accomplished ceramist as well. Adrian is constantly experimenting with new ideas, glazes, and forms. His most striking works include hand-constructed vases and teapots with delicate leaf-like elements, wrapped like layers of an onion around a solid body. These organic constructions veil the classic form of the vessel with sculptural details that give each piece a unique character and a life of its own. |
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Frankie Powell California artist Frankie Powell is a versatile artist who works in many forms, with experience as a printmaker, ceramist, computer artist, and painter. Frankie’s work is imaginative and emotional, expressing her inner thoughts, and her relationship with the world she live in. Frankie's work reflects her interest in nature, dreams, the subconscious, and her spiritual beliefs. Her style is bold and confident, often poignant and whimsical, seeking to discover inner meaning beneath the surface of things, and to reveal the essence of the moment. |
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Richard Powell Richard Powell is a multi-talented painter, illustrator, cartoonist, and computer artist. Rich's paintings combine Pop Culture themes, bold design, and playful, vibrant color. Powell is prolific and determined in his work. He draws constantly, and is happiest with pencil in hand. The influence of cartoonists and underground illustrators like R. Crumb and Don Martin are a strong influence in Rich's work. His images cry out "LOOK AT ME!", and their demands are gladly met due to their practiced and delightful execution. |
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John Rogers John
Rogers began his career in photography processing black and white film
in a garage darkroom. Now
he shoots hundreds of pictures a year,
and works digitally with color and the transforming tool of the
computer to present a new and sometimes startling perception.
Form, color, and the small details of our world become the
subjects for his artist’s eye, always seeking to expand and enlighten
our view of the world. |
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Norma Rogers Starting in 1991 with a class in bronze casting, Norma Rogers is pursuing her love affair with metal while working on a Masters of Arts in Sculpture at California State University, Fresno. The human figure is incorporated in most of her work, which ranges from the playful to the mythic. With bronze, aluminum, lead, silver, stone, wood, plaster, glass, plastic, and clay, she explores the complex relations we have with the natural world, each other, and most importantly, with ourselves. |
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Keith
Sauer Keith Sauer has roamed the world with his Nikon for
nearly fifty years. An adventurer at heart, he is drawn to the majesty
of the world’s mountain areas, and to the creatures that inhabit them.
Sauer works intuitively,
capturing images of landscape, people, and wildlife where he finds them,
or where they find him.
While principally a landscape photographer,
he
is also known for spontaneous, often humorous, and sometimes offbeat
images of animal and human subjects. |
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Heidi
Vetter For as long as she can remember, photography has been a pivotal force in the life of California photographer Heidi Vetter, leading her into marriage, children, and owning her own business. For Heidi, photography is a bridge between insanity and balance, a reflection of her self, defining who she is and what she want to say. Now her vision has taken on a new voice, a stronger one, ominous, daring, unforgiving in truth, and a reflection of a searching soul. In 2002, this drive to photograph, to take chances and to seek meaning in her life, resulted in a three month solo journey through the Sierra High Country. The body of work that grew from this journey is emotive and inspirational, and a testament to one woman's confrontation with nature and her existence. |
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Tiwi Wood Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, artist Tiwi Wood now makes her home in Fresno California. Tiwi holds a Masters Degree in linguistics from Fresno State, where her love for ceramics was ignited while studying under California ceramic artist Jim Shepard. Tiwi creates salt-fired stoneware sculptural and utilitarian works, often with applied and incised animal and floral elements. The forms she creates are traditional, but are constructed with an organic freedom that adds a wonderful asymmetry to the work. |
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Williams Gallery West opened its first showroom in Oakhurst, California in 1998. In July 2001 the gallery relocated to its current location in the Houchin building on Highway 41. The gallery maintains a permanent inventory of American and International fine art, folk art, vintage prints, photography, jewelry, pottery, and art glass, and features a number of special exhibitions each year. The gallery is owned and operated by Oakhurst resident Jonathan Bock, and is located at 40680 Highway 41 in Oakhurst, next door to Days Inn, and across the street from Adriannes. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, Noon to 6 PM, and by appointment. The gallery can be visited on the Internet at https://galwest.com |
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