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Gallery Opening: Friday, March 9, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: March 12-March 23, 10:00am-6:00pm
CLOSED SUNDAYS
CLOSED MARCH 15th
Art Fair: Saturday, March 24, 11:00am-3:00pm
2012 Theme: "Just California." John Steven McGroarty wrote his iconic poem "Just California" in 1933, describing the idyllic and natural beauty of the state of California. We know California is more than the "...light of leaping rivers, and the flash of popped plains." California has long thrived on its continual reinvention.
We asked artists to investigate topics relevant to California: immigration, the impact of information technology on business and communication, California's tumultuous infrastructure, disastrous earthquakes and fires, racial panic, and unemployment. Explore their findings in the first ever Art Fair & Gallery at McGroarty Arts Center!
The Art Fair and Gallery is an opportunity for visual artists from the local community to exhibit and sell their work in two curated gallery spaces and outdoor booths. This split presentation format allows artists to present their work, even if it they prefer not to display it in the curated gallery. Visual artists working in all mediums are encouraged to enter the event, though the gallery portion will favor two dimensional works such as paintings, photographs and fiber art.
Exhibiting Artists:
Debby Beck - Debby Beck has studied painting in many places and has a degree in Design from UCLA. After a career designing costume jewelry, a few years ago she returned to her favorite medium of oil paint. Entranced by the purity of pigments in the luscious paint, using techniques from both new and old masters, she creates with happy exuberance. A California native, she has lived in Sunland for twenty years, the last ten on McGroarty Street, nurtured by the hills, the oaks and the scents on the late afternoon breeze that wafts down from the green Verdugo Hills.
Dacia Calkins - Dacia Calkins was originally born in El Salvador and came to America as a young child. Her earliest recollection of drawing was when she was around 11. The influences in her life were magazines, a neighbor, and later on her father. She is a a passionate, creative, loving person who enjoys life, family, and friends and helping those in need. Her inspiration to paint comes from life, her husband and out of her relationship with the Lord. She has never had art lessons or formal training so she is still in the process of learning.
Carol Colin - Carol Colin paints roughly representational landscapes, street scenes, and portraits, including details that anchor each work in the contemporary world. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Colin earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Museum Art School, Portland, Oregon in 1974. She has lived in Los Angeles with her husband, fellow artist Ted Waltz, since 1976. Together, they owned and directed art galleries in both Portland and Los Angeles through more than three decades, including most recently a walk-up window gallery at their studio in a storefront in Highland Park. Colin’s work is included in many private collections.
Joe DeCenzo - Joe DeCenzo grew up in Los Angeles and majored in theater and English Literature. From 2004 -06 he served as poet laureate of Sunland-Tujunga. He produced the “Shouting Coyote” performing arts festival and was a Department of Cultural Affairs grant recipient. His published works include “The Ballad of Alley and Hawk” and the “Study Guide and Poetry Primer” for the same. He currently serves on the planning committee for the Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga and enjoys photographing the roads he drives and the trails he hikes.
Danielle Eubank - Ms. Eubank was an Expedition Artist on the Phoenicia, a replica of a 600 B.C. Phoenician vessel. The ship sailed from the Mediterranean and circumnavigated Africa 2008-2010. In 2003-2004, she set sail as an Expedition Artist on the Borobudur Ship, a replica of an 8th century Indonesian boat that sailed 10,000 miles around the African continent. She was an artist-in-residence in Bali in 2005. Ms. Eubank has painted commissioned portraits for Standard Chartered Bank, the Naval and Military Club in London as well for many private individuals.
Nicole Fournier - Nicole Fournier's passion for photography was first expressed during a 4th grade trip to Washington DC, when she snuck away from her group to photograph a spiral staircase. Many years later, she honed her skills at university by obtaining a B.F.A. in Graphic Design, along with a minor in Photography. Currently residing in Los Angeles, Nicole Fournier enjoys pursuing her photography career in art and commercial photography.
Sheri Garwood - Sheri Garwood is a dedicated, enthusiastic teacher who is patient and helpful to both beginning and advanced students of all ages. A life-long artist, Sheri is a member of the Sunland-Tujunga Art Association, the Valley Watercolor Art Association, and Vice President and Program Director of the Verdugo Hills Art Association. Many of her paintings are in private collections. She teaches teens and adults in watercolor, fashion, portrait and figure drawing/painting at McGroarty Arts Center.
Stacia Gates - Stacia began using her art as a therapeutic tool at a very young age. With the loss of her parents so early on Stacia chose to see the light instead of the darkness that fell around her. She attended Los Angeles Valley College from 1989-1991 studying Art History. Stacia lives in Los Angeles, Ca. with her husband of 19 years and their two sons. With great support from her family she is now pursuing her Art career.
Debra Girard - Born in Long Beach California, she received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in painting at Arizona State University. She currently lives in Los Angeles. She had worked primarily in painting, until she moved to Prague, the Czech Republic, where she spent three years in Prague and South Bohemia. While there, she became a founding member of an expatriate artist's group named "Et Cetera".
Ricky Grubb - Ricky documents and studies California's wild native plants. Nature occupies Sunland Tujunga's unspoiled vistas. Wilderness has long been referred to as "Creation", and to him, Divine.
Kathryn Hansen - La Canada, CA artist, Kathryn Hansen received her BFA degree in studio arts from the University of Stevens Point, WI in 1983. She went on to study art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and The Associates of Art in Sherman Oaks, CA. Ms Hansen specializes in the striking effects of graphite pencil drawings. Her portfolio demonstrates her ability to capture the unique personalities of her subjects as well as revealing their essences and emotions.
William Hartdegen - All of his life he has been interested in painting, and has visited most of the great art museums of the world. AFter retired as a structural engineer, he took up drawing and acrylic paiting at McGroarty Arts Center in 1999. ALmost all of his paintings are views of the vacinity of McGroarty or his home. All of his portraits are of his friend at McGroarty or of the models who have posed here.
Aviva Heston - Aviva Heston is a long-time member of McGroarty Arts Center. In addition to the ceramic work she enjoys making in the cellar, she loves looking at the world through a camera lens, finding that particular asymmetry, flash of color, textural contrast, poignant look or magical lighting that makes the photo speak. She embraces all forms of art, has been a professional actor for most of her life, teaches piano and singing and is a graphic designer.
Lloyd Hitt - entrepreneur, pharmacist, activist and soldier—has worn many hats. For over a decade, though, he was known as one of the go-to community historians as president of the Little Landers Historical Society.
Marlene Hitt - Marlene was the first Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga. In addition to poetry chapbooks, anthologies and readings, she has authored a nonfiction book "Sunland-Tujunga, from Village to City". She serves at the Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga as museum director and docent. She has served as history writer for the Foothill Leader and the Glendale News Press, and others.
R. Rene Hoffman - While in college Rene needed to fill 4 units. He took photography. The creation of an image with light and chemicals was all it took. He was hooked. He is currently a member of the Pasadena Society of Artists.
Dawn Jenkins - Dawn Valli is a California native who has been expressing through various artistic mediums throughout her life. Her love of California is very present in her recent works that are expressed through mixed media. Her love of Surrealism, spiritual psychology, dreamwork, and color is evolving into what she is calling, SupraRealism. She sees the metaphors of the waking and dream worlds we live in as vehicles of Spiritual learning, growth, wisdom, and expansion of consciousness.
Michael Jones - Michael Jones grasped the art world at the early age of 3. With his intricate drawings , his imagination and creativity for art had just begun. Known for his vivid intricate colors in his paintings, he is a man of many styles. A self taught abstract artist that is considered in a class uniquely his own. He enjoys charity events and art shows that contribute to the community.
Julie Kornblum - Julie Kornblum earned her BA in Art, with a concentration in fiber and fabric art, at California State University Northridge. But being a fiber artist was hereditary. She learned sewing, knitting, and crochet from her mother and grandmother. She attended fashion design school at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, worked as a patternmaker in the garment industry and taught at Otis College of Art and Design. Julie exhibits nationally and has won numerous awards for her woven wall pieces and sculptural basketry.
Nancy LaCroix- Toyne - A native Californian who has received her BA in Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at UCLA in 1978. She's been a mechanical designer for the last 30 years for theme park rides and special effects, products and manufacturing equipment. She has sold many of her paintings online to people in the US and internationally. Lately, she has focused on local shows and galleries.She is intensely interested in California landscapes and cityscapes.
Mark Lowrie - Mark has been a photographer and film editor for over thirty years, experimenting with montage techniques and exploring the lands he loves, notably the American Southwest. He has developed this style of photosculpture for over twenty years. His photomontage work consists of photos stacked together to create a larger image. By building up the individual photos on layers of foam core, he creates a unique handcrafted image with aspects of time, motion and depth.
Athena Mantle - Athena’s artistic journey began as a child who loved to draw. She received her art education at Mission Renaissance in Los Angeles. In 1994, she became an art instructor and began teaching children to draw and paint. Today painting full-time, she lives in the San Gabriel Mountains with her husband. In her hillside home, which she likes to call her tree house, she maintains an array of succulent and cactus specimens which can often be found in her work.
David Miles - coming soon!
Sharon Miller - Born in 1952 and raised in Burbank for 52 yrs before she moved to the Tujunga mountains. Sharon started painting with oil paint at a young age, then enjoyed the quick drying acrylic paints and in later years, the magic of watercolors.
Frances Cena Muenzer - Frances received her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from UC Davis in 2009 with an emphasis on printmaking and contemporary architecture. She gets absolutely all of her inspiration from music and the landscape in and surrounding Yosemite. Her technique is completely influenced by her studio practice of printmaking. Common themes are shifting from recreation and voyeurism to isolation and absence.
Eileen Rapke - Eileen Rapke is an entertainment lawyer and artist. Her art has won awards and been exhibited in many curated gallery exhibitions. Rapke is a member of Gallery 825.
Irena Raulinaitis - Irena creates etchings, collagraphs, cardboard cuts, monoprints, etc. She works in color and in black-and-white, printed images over images to evoke the complexity of concepts. She explores currents and countercurrents in her way of thinking, feeling and of perceiving.
Rick Rotante - Rick Rotante has been a professional fine art painter since 1980. He is a graduate of Art and Design in New York City. He has taught at New York University in Manhattan, Glendale Community College in Glendale and currently teaches in Pasadena at “Art Classes of Pasadena”.He has been a twenty two year artist member of the California Art Club and Oil Painters of America. His work can be found two private collections.
Bill & Dorothy Skiles - Bill and Dorothy Skiles are a retired couple and long-time residents of Sunland-Tujunga. They each enjoy their vocations; Dorothy as a poet and Bill as a photographer. Dorothy is an active member of both the Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga, which sponsors monthly poetry events at Bolton Hall, as well as the Chiparosa Writers. Bill is active at the Bolton Hall Museum and on the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council’s Land Use Committee.
Elizabeth Tucker - Originally from upstate New York, Elizabeth B. Tucker moved to Southern California in her early 20’s. While she had always worked with her hands in the needle arts, it was her husband who encouraged her to begin drawing and painting when he gave her an easel as a gift. Now a teacher herself, Elizabeth is a member of the Pasadena Society of Artists, the California Art Club, Women Painters West and is the president of the Angeles Crest Art Guild. She has won several awards for her work.
Cori Woods - Cori Woods started painting and taking photos at a very young age, inspired by her very artistic family. She majored in Art at Cal Poly Pomona with an emphasis on painting. Her art has been displayed in several galleries and restaurants. Sometimes it’s hard to find the beauty of our California freeways. These photos represent looking past the obvious and seeing the beautiful.
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