Redwood Camera Club
Thursdays - Sundays 1:00-4:00 p.m. Jan 10 through Feb 28
Each of the 23 photographers will be showing work from their own collections. The un-themed exhibit will highlight the individual and distinctive styles of each. The club's sixty members vary in skill and experience from beginners to award winning professionals. Members of the over-twenty year old club participate in group shows, education, field trips and critiques throughout the year. For more information visit redwoodcameraclub.com.
Also showing is fused glass art from Melissa Zielinski of Mill Creek Glass. Melissa captures the beauty of nature in glass plates, panels, window ornaments and bowls using iridized translucent fusible glass, glass rods, and ground glass. She has been creating fused glass art since 2005.
A Silent Opera of Nine Women by Eleanor Seeley
Thursdays - Sundays 1:00-4:00 p.m. through December 14th
Eleanor has been the artist-in-residence at WCA for the last year, working on small female figures of women in resin. This series of women follows on the series of women Eleanor had done in bronze which were shown at Westhaven last year and are shown again this year. The current economic trend has partially been the reason for Eleanor's "Silent Opera". Her intention is to make sculpture affordable.
Eleanor will be teaching classes in life-drawing and Photoshop in the coming year. Call 707-599-8999 for more information. Showing in the lower gallery is the black and white photography of Krista Sappington. This is the first time Krista will be showing a collection of her photographs, so it is an exciting moment for her. Come and enjoy the show!
Celebrating the Jewish Year in Paintings and Prints - with Beverly Zeman
Sept 6 - Oct 26, 2009
Thursdays - Sundays, 1-4pm
Each holiday will be explained by word and art in chronological order. All aspects of Jewish culture are portrayed in depth and beauty in this fine art. This is an experience not to be missed. Opening reception will be Sunday, September 6th from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Four Mediums – Four Masters
July 5 - August 30, 2009
Thursdays - Sundays, 1-4pm
Derek Bond - Tempera and watercolor, Pearl Barkin - Ink drawings, Elizabeth Dante - Sculpture, and Paul Graf - Bas-relief. Don’t miss this excellent show of top professional artists opening June 5th and running through August 30th during gallery hours (Thursdays through Sundays 1:00-4:00 p.m.)
Membership Show
May 3 - June 27, 2009
Thursdays - Sundays, 1-4pm
Membership Art Show celebrates our creativity and imagination. This is a grand community event with over 20 artists participating and features all medias, sculpture, historic hats, and mosaics. We have it all. Entries will be accepted on Monday, April 27th from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. The show opens with a reception Sunday, May 3rd and runs through Sunday, June 28th.
Lee Garrison Retrospective - Paintings Prints Lithographs
March 1 - April 27, 2009
"Rubaiyat", which Garrison describes as a "mystique of color and design", was one of her early "pour" watercolors.
D. Lee Garrison's life in art will be celebrated with a retrospective showing through the months of March and April. Garrison has earned three signature memberships: The Society of Western Art, California Watercolor Association, and The International Society of Experimental Artists. She is also a past President of the California Watercolor Association.
Garrison's favorite watercolor technique is "pouring," in which colors are poured onto paper, often with materials or objects included to create background patterns for her paintings.
Native Arts and Culture
January 4 - February 22, 2009
Gallery Hours 1pm - 4pm, Thursdays through Sundays
Join us for a celebration of Native Arts and Cultures!
Trinidad Goodshield, Teresa Whitehalk, Lyn Risling and Early Tsuri Photographs from the Snell Collection
Starlight Kachina Brings Food for the People
By Teresa Whitehawlk
October Woman
By Teresa Whitehawlk
Lyn Risling and her work
Rebirth into Womanhood
By Lyn Risling
Children's Holiday Art Show
November 2 - December 14, 2008
The younger artists celebrate the holidays – Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas with ongoing artwork. What a delight! Not to be missed.
Open Thursdays through Sundays, 1-4pm
September and October, 2008
‘Rose Art’ and Bronze Women at Westhaven in July 2008
“A Different Camel” from Marvin Trump’s Rose Art series frames his Moonstone Beach home and the view of Camel Rock.
Eleanor Seeley’s “Beyond Jazz” is one of the seven full-body works in her new “Bronze Women” collection.
WESTHAVEN—A series of new “rose art” oils by Westhaven painter Marvin Trump will complement the first-ever gathering of Trinidad sculptor Eleanor Seeley’s “Bronze Women” in July as the Westhaven Center for the Arts celebrates the joyous forms and colors of summer.
The Trump-Seeley exhibit begins July 6 with an opening and reception for the artists on Sunday, July 6, from 1-4 p.m., and runs throughout July.
In "Blue Sky," Westhaven painter Marvin Trump, a retired architect, offers his perspective on a village. “It is fun for an architect to design structures that are not constrained by gravity, codes, materials and money,” he says.
Trump, a longtime Westhaven fixture, worked as a prominent architect for decades before “retiring” and returning to his longtime love of drawing and sketching. Soon, that talent had blossomed into a full-fledged new career as a painter.
His WCA exhibit of 23 new paintings, “Rose Art—Not Beaux Arts,” combines Trump’s architectural training with his eye for color, portraying the flat planes of buildings—including his longtime home on the rocks above Moonstone Beach—in warm, rosy hues.
It is an approach, Trump says, that offers “a different way of looking at buildings which might have been designed according to the French classical Beaux Arts school, but are being presented here as semi-abstract planes of color.”
“It is fun for an architect to design structures that are not constrained by gravity, codes, materials and money,” he said.
After serving as a pilot during World War II, Trump worked as an architect in Sweden and Denmark, spending the summers sketching. In 1952, while working for a Stockholm gallery owner, he met artists including Marc Chagall, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse and Henry Moore. So when he retired, it was a natural return for him to begin studying with Eureka artist and teacher Michael Hayes several years ago.
Trinidad sculptor Eleanor Seeley will show all nine pieces in her new "Bronze Women" series at the Westhaven Center, July 6-20.
Complementing Trump’s “rose art” will be bronze sculptor Eleanor Seeley, whose figures of “Bronze Women” express joy, sensuality, life and grace. This will be the first time Seeley has shown the full collection of “women” in one venue—seven full-body pieces and two torsos.
Originally from the upper Midwest, Seeley was inspired as a Wisconsin graduate student by a seven-foot sculpture by Gaston Lachaise, “Standing Woman,” an influence that has remained through her career as a teacher of art.
Upon turning 60 and after a lifetime of making art, Seeley says, she turned seriously to the task of creating sculpture. Her passion for art and her love for dance combined in her "Women" series.
"Using women as my subject, the female form allows a sense of spontaneity – the sleek roundness, and the fluidity of one line/form flowing into the next, allowing movement, that could just as well be abstract as representational,” she says. “Form is just that, it is only the viewer's sense of familiarity that dictates subject.
“That they are women is secondary to the aesthetic sensuality of form,” she says. “Conversely, that they are women is essential."
Come see this unique display of some of the North Coast’s most prominent arts during the month of July at the Westhaven Center for the Arts. Serving the North Coast since 2001, the Westhaven Center is a non-profit art gallery showcasing North Coast artists, and a grassroots community center dedicated to expanding citizen engagement and exchange.
For more information on this and other programs at the Westhaven Center, visit us at 501 S. Westhaven Drive, two miles south of Trinidad, or call us at 677-9493.
See more of Seeley’s work at http://www.sculpturewoman.com
Trump’s past work can be seen at Old Town Art Gallery’s website: http://oldtownartgalleryeureka.com/Galleries/Marvin/Marvin.html