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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

To Be Announced

 

PAST EXHIBITIONS:

 

 

 

Cante Jondo:

Contemporary Oil Paintings based on musical metaphor

 

by Julia San Román

 

Opening Reception
Saturday, November 12, 2011
6 - 9 pm

Exhibit runs November 8 to January 8, 2012

 

Julia San Román has exhibited in several solo and group shows throughout the Southwest and she is represented by a number of professional galleries across the States. She was the recipient of several art awards for exhibitions between 2004-2011. In 2006, based on her comprehensive body of work, she was selected by the Chief Curator of American Art to exhibit in a group show at Gallery 15, San Diego Museum of Art. In 2010, the work "Cante Jondo” was selected for a 6 month period audio-painting installation at the public space “West-End”, San Diego International Airport. Her work has been reviewed by the L.A. critic Grady Harp for “POETS and ARTISTS”, Joe Nalven for San Diego Union Tribune and it is included in the book “INTERNATIONAL SURVEY” by Crussell Fine Arts.

More about the artist at www.juliasanroman.com

 

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BRAWN AND BEAUTY: Works On Copper

Oil Paintings by RICHARD HAWK

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Artist Reception
Saturday, September 10, 2011
6 - 9 pm

Exhibit runs August 16 to November 5, 2011

 

 

This exhibition of works by figurative painter Richard Hawk explores the use of copper sheeting as substrate while capturing both ends of the masculine/feminine spectrum of the human form. The beauty, grace, and flow of dancers in juxtaposition with the brawn, violent potential and pent up energy of boxers make for exquisite subject matter. At the same time, merging practices of traditional figurative painting and patinization of copper provides strange and wonderful contrasts of the artist’s mediums. The marriage of these extremely different elements in the work brings tension and balance to this extraordinary collection.

Richard Hawk is a San Diego area artist whose figurative paintings have taken awards in many national and international shows. With paintings in a number of collections in the US and Europe, his art works have appeared in The Artist's Magazine, Interior Design magazine and have been featured on ABC San Diego. He is represented by fine art galleries in the United States and Canada. Hawk is recognized as a popular workshop instructor, teaching methods of painting freely and intuitively. He is also principal of Copperhand Studio, devoted to creating works of art on copper. He paints and lives in Escondido, California.

 

More at

www.hawkstudio.com

 

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Metaphor and Mystery:

New Work by

Kira Carrillo Corser

 

Opening Reception
Saturday, June 18, 2011
6 - 9 pm

Exhibit runs June 12 to August 12, 2011

 

An artist for 30 years, with books and exhibitions showing in museums, universities and congress buildings,

Kira Carrillo Corser 's awards include:

The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Council for the Arts,

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and

a California State Senate Award for Excellence in Social and Artistic Collaboration.

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Abstract to Alternative:
Art Meets Fashion
Online Competition Finalists

Works by Dan Adams, Dana Levine,
Moya Devine, Duke Windsor, John Valois, and Giedre Ferraz de Campos

Opening Reception
Friday, April 29, 2011
6 - 9 pm

Exhibit runs April 8 to June 9, 2011

 

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Primal Forces:
Pattern & Pathos

Paintings by Michael Carini and Michael Maas

Opening Reception
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Exhibit runs January 1 through April 4, 2011

 

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“EAT • PAINT • LOVE”
An Arts for Healing Project with Gerrit Greve
Artworks by local students, teachers & Gerrit Greve

Proceeds benefited
Family Health Centers of San Diego
and
San Diego Visual Artists Network

 

Show Dates: Nov. 4, 2010 – Dec. 27, 2011

L Street Fine Art Gallery

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"Chinese Girl - Xiaolin"

Jian Wang Paintings

Show Dates: September 1 - October 30, 2010

L Street Fine Art Gallery

Jian Wang, a Sacramento-based artist who was born in China, paints traditional subjects while tempering realism with 20th century abstraction. Most recently, Jian Wang was selected to exhibit a 20-Year Retrospective at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics. Always drawn to art even in childhood, Jian Wang had the opportunity to come to the United States in 1986 to study painting under Sacramento-based artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Fred Dalkey, Jack Ogden, Manuel Neri, Roland Petersen and David Hollowell. Jian Wang describes his own painting style as a dialogue between himself and his subject. Using lush, impasto-style brushstrokes in vibrant colors, Jian Wang’s prolific abilities allow for a broad repertoire of subjects including landscapes, nudes, portraiture, and still-life. Jian Wang has exhibited his paintings all over the world, ranging from gallery shows in New York and London and museum exhibitions in China. His works are featured in more than 300 public and private collections worldwide.

 

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PLUCK: Seed Sow Scatter Sun and then Some: Paintings by Martin Facey
  
Show Dates: July 15 – August 31, 2010

L Street Fine Art Gallery

Since 2000 Facey’s series of paintings, drawings, and prints, collectively called “Seed”, are about seed germination, how life springs from tiny inert pods.  “PLUCK” is a collection of Facey’s most recent work in this series.  Facey explains,”’ Seed’ concerns all birth, how life begins anywhere.  Not what birth looks like, but rather the actual process itself.  ‘Seed’ reenacts the verb of growing, not the noun of seed.  Not what, but how.” 

Facey uses fiberglass and Lucite as a painting surface, on which he works “in reverse,” building up images from behind the surface, with acrylic paints, intaglio, shallow relief sculpting and collage, resulting in lively and colorful images. His paintings come to life, according to Facey, as “the delicate marriage of exact planning and chaotic mutations.”

While in the process of earning BFA, MA, and MFA degrees at UCLA School of Arts in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Facey served as assistant to famed artist Richard Diebenkorn, his mentor in his early years as a painter.  In the 1980’s Facey was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting, followed by the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting.

In his most recent body of work, Facey explores the seed as a microcosmic metaphor for the creation of life.  According to Facey, “Birth is both content and process; union of end and means.” He considers his work as figurative, in that he sees the botanical seed as “a metaphor for all human beings, for all life forms” and that the viewer “understands that they are looking at a mirror.”

Facey, a resident of San Diego County since 2006, is a celebrated art educator. He taught design, color, painting, drawing, and graduate studies for two decades as Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, where he also served as chair of the department of Art and Art History.  Facey currently teaches Design and Art History on the Oceanside campus of Mira Costa College.

Facey has had solo exhibitions in major cities throughout the country during his 30-year career, several of which were sell-out shows.  He currently lives and works in both Los Angeles and Vista, California. 

 

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DoubleVision: Craig Fuller and Carolyn Corbett New Photography

Show Dates: May 1 – June 30, 2010

L Street Fine Art Gallery

Craig Fuller, whose work captures the remarkable in the familiar, has been shown internationally and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. He is a principal and creative director of Greenhaus, a San Diego advertising agency. 

Carolyn Corbett, currently in the graduate film program at USC where she is developing new approaches to cinematic expression, comes from a background in the arts in New York City.  She has worked extensively with individuals with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries and produced a documentary film on this subject. Her photography reflects her involvement in filmmaking, theater, and poetry.

 

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SILVIA VALENTINO KARBASHLIEVA

TANIA ALCALA

 

TANIA ALCALA| SILVIA VALENTINO KARBASHLIEVA

“Driven to Abstraction”  

Exhibition featuring works by Tania Alcala ( San Diego Art Prize New Contemporaries 2009) and Silvia Valentino Karabashlieva

Exhibition Dates: November 25 to Feb 15, 2010

Location: L Street Fine Art Gallery

Conversation with the Artists: Thursday, Dec. 10 th at the L Street Gallery / 8pm-9pm

Reception for Artists: Thursday, Dec. 10 th at THE CORNER / from 9pm -11pm / 369 10TH AVENUE San Diego , CA 92101 www.thecornersd.com

L Street Fine Art Gallery presents a joint exhibition of the works of Tania Alcala and Silvia Valentino Karabashlieva. Alcala’s abstracts are based on her experience as a commercial pilot, while Karabashlieva drives her car to create work with intense attention to details. This spotlight show for Alcala marks the end of her year as a participating artist in SD Art Prize New Contemporaries II. The SD Art Prize New Contemporaries II exhibition was held in the Spring of 09 at Noel Baza Fine Art.

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DISCOMBOBULATED:
KIM MacCONNEL and BRIAN DICK

 

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 25th,  7:00 - 9:00pm
Exhibition runs April 25th - July 20th, 2009

 

 

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MATT DEVINE & CRAIG FULLER

 

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 28th, 2009
FROM 6PM - 9PM

Exhibition Runs from: Feb. 28th - April 8th, 2009
Wine/Beer and Hor doevres

 

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"WHO DO YOU LOVE?"

Featuring works by: Raymond Ellstad | Patricia Bean | Mireille des Rosiers | Dan Camp | Alida Cervantes | Gerrit Greve | Raul Guerrero | Pamela Jaeger | Phillipp Scholz Ritterman | Jeff Yeomans

Presented by
San Diego Visual Arts Network
SanDiegoArtist.com
L Street Gallery at the Omni Hotel

 

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L Street Fine Art Gallery and TASTE of Downtown
partner to present a night of food and art!

FEATURED ARTIST:

JOSHUA KRAUSE
Harbinger of Hope

 

 

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JULY 25TH - SEPTEMBER 15TH
Friday, July 25th
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Reception

INK PENCIL PAINT.
Featuring Works by

Fighting (image courtesy of)
Theo Ellsworth
Michael James Armstrong
Frida Kamau Hawthorn
Joey Gold
Thomas Demello
Shelby Gubba
Lee Lavy

 

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ANDY LUTZ
Paintings and Works on Paper from 2006-08

Here Lies Arthur Kornberg (detail)
Acrylic and collage on maple plywood,
48 7/8" x 48 7/8"

 

RESEARCH
Featuring Works by Roman de Salvo and Lael Corbin

 

 

STOP. YIELD. MERGE.
Featuring Works by Marcos Ramirez "ERRE" and Allison Wiese

DOMESITIC DEVIATION
Featuring Works by Ernest Silva and May-Ling Martinez

GREEN ACRES
Featuring Works by Jean Lowe and Iana Quesnell
San Diego Art Prize Recipients
November 18 - February 10, 2007

ART NOTES were created to promote and encourage dialogue and reflection about the artists selected as recipients of the SD Art Prize and their work.

PRESS RELEASE

ART ROCKS!

Iana Quesnell

EVENT PHOTOS

Vip Reception

Opening Reception

LETS PLAYDOWNTOWN

 

 

FATA MORGANA
New Works by Raul Guerrero and Yvonne Venegas
San Diego Art Prize Recipients
August 26 - November 10, 2006

ART NOTES were created to promote and encourage dialogue and reflection about the artists selected as recipients of the SD Art Prize and their work.

PRESS RELEASE

REVIEW BY ROBERT PINCUS

ART ROCKS!

Raul Guerrero

Yvonne Venegas

EVENT PHOTOS

Vip Reception

Opening Reception

LETS PLAYDOWNTOWN

 

Matt Forderer and Steve Gibson
August 2006
View Works: Matt Forderer | Steve Gibson

 

 

 

 

 

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