The Jefferson Agrarian

“The Lost Souls of Painters”, Finley Fryer

Dunsmuir artist Finley Fryer, whose show a year ago at John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis created quite a buzz, was interviewed by Pamela Stewart on IgniteMe, a blog and discussion community dedicated to art and forward-thinking ideas.

Check it out!

Exciting news! As far as we know here at the Jeff, at least five Siskiyou County artists’ works were accepted for exhibition in the West Coast Biennial: Juried Art Exhibition at Turtle Bay Museum in Redding, CA.

According to the organizers, only 45 artworks were selected from a pool of over 600 entries from West Coast artists currently living in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The aim of the exhibition is to provide a forum for both established and emerging artists working on the West Coast in a diversity of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture and mixed media.

The juror for the West Coast Biennial is Scott A. Shields, Chief Curator at the prestigious Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Dr. Shields will be giving a talk at Turtle Bay in Redding on Tuesday, January 22 at 7pm. Cash awards will be announced during the opening reception for the exhibition at the annual Redding Cultural Cruise to be held on Friday, January 25, 2013, from 4 – 8 p.m.  The public is invited to attend this reception and meet the Curator and the participating artists.  The winner of the People’s Choice award will be notified after the close of the show on May 5, 2013.

The five artists are:

• Belinda Hanson, Dunsmuir (sculpture)
• Aleksander Balos, Mt. Shasta (painting)
• Heinz Danzberger, Mt. Shasta (photography)
• David Turner, Gazelle (sculpture)
• James Gilmore, Mt. Shasta (photography)

This exhibition will be on exhibition in the Art Gallery at Turtle Bay Museum in Redding, from January 25 – May 5, 2013.

State of Jefferson Artists Represent in 2013 West Coast Biennial!

Ed. Note: Illahe Gallery in Ashland, OR contacted us to spread the word about it’s upcoming Fourth Annual Artist Book exhibit – and a call for artists. Even if this isn’t your ‘official medium,’ we encourage State of Jefferson artists to consider submitting artists’ books - which are really any works of art realized in the form of a book. Artist books are often published in small editions, though sometimes they are produced as one-of-a-kind objects referred to as “uniques”.

Verena Schiffner, “Book Origami – Cat”

From the Illahe Gallery:

“We are defining “artist books” as original works of art created as a book. Submissions can be one-of-a-kind books or works from small editions and may be based in any of the following mediums or combinations of mediums: poetry, prose, printmaking, painting, calligraphy, mixed media, photography, sculpture, textile, found objects, and letterpress printing. For this show, we will not be accepting blank books or journals. Submitted work must have been created within the past two years.”

Deadline is January 30. Here’s more info.

Ed. note:
John Rickard has been tirelessly working on his photographic project “The McCloud River” for years, and his hard work has really come to fruition. After Rickard’s successful KickStart campaign raised some funds for the publication, the prestigious gallery and publisher Modernbook Gallery in San Francisco agreed to publish not only a high quality monograph, but also a special slipcase copy of the book that includes a signed original photographic print by Rickard.

The opening reception for both the book release and the gallery show at Modernbook‘s San Francisco location is this Thursday, December 13, from 5-7PM. The exhibition will continue through December -

You can LIKE the show here on Facebook.

Modernbook Gallery
49 Geary, 4th Floor
San Francisco, California 94108
+1 415 732 0300
info@modernbook.com
modernbook.com

From Modernbook Gallery’s blog:

“Hello friends!

December is a very exciting month at Modernbook Gallery! Please mark your calendar for Thursday, December 13, 5-7pm, as we welcome photographer, John Rickard. John will be present to sign copies of his new book, The McCloud River!”

To find out more about John’s journey culminating in “The McCloud River, read more here.

Congratulations, John-

The State of Jefferson is proud of you!

From American Suburb X:

“It was Rauschenberg who first drew attention to how photojournalism had “stolen” the job of history painting, the highest of the traditional genres, from the artists. Using the mechanical silk-screen technique, he appropriated photojournalistic images of historic importance and brought them back into the museum as paintings on canvas. Abstract painting in America has been theorized as a reaction to the cold war, a moment when artists shied away from politics and reality. When Rauschenberg fused Abstract Expressionist gesture with photographic imagery, he ended the American moratorium on the real. Warhol took things a step further by eradicating gesture and making straightforward silkscreen prints. Richter followed by taking a step back again past Warhol and Rauschenberg to the hand-painted rendition, reclaiming the beaux arts position of the painter.”