36th Annual Spring Art Show

 Even though I'm retired and no longer organize the annual Spring Art Show I'm still hanging in there (by helping to hang the show). A small installation crew, including Molly, got the almost 100 artists up on the walls on April 29th. The reception was May 1st.

Molly and the usual confederation of pickers played in the portico

Here's Molly's new (I'd say excellent) portrait. Hangers Tom Tabakin and Donn Deangelo to the left.

Zoltron's wondrous bronze sculpture and Judy North's equally wondrous canine.

Andrew Bates "School Drop Off"

I always like looking at Geoff Bernstein's paintings of people looking at paintings

A great piece by Judith Selby-Lang

Leonard Leinow

Jim Finnegan

Tom Tabakin (leather, wood, copper and brass)

John Torrey

Nikko Raffael

Laurel Marinelli

"Artist-in-Training", David Hoffman

John Beck "Rainbow Tara, Mother of All Buddhas"

Alexis Brayton, an encaustic piece

Liz Lauter

Anne Hillsley, paper collage

Paul Valente

Watercolor by Edieann Fleming

Paul Snyder, pyrography on basewood

Martha Cederstrom

Sarah May Salin

Barbara Libby-Steinmann

Dahlia Kamesar

Painting/collage by Taylor & Kaba Rechtschaffen, ceramic dog by Marie Eisen and robo-fantasy by me.

"Evolutionary Stroll"

Richard D. James

Nils Persson

Barbara Morris

Richard Lang, "Distributed Cognition"

Claudia Tomaso, "State of the World"

Jay Oneil

Susan Doyle "Banned: I know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Monotype by Sunday Favor 

Kristin Jakob "Sweet Violet-Viola Odorata"

Elaine Penwell, handcut layered paper

Sierra Salin (I wish I had a better shot of this fine piece of photography)

Sam Harris

Watercolor by Leo Den Ouden 

Stained glass by Sarah Smith

Carole Alter's lampsculpture

Anne Pennypacker

I wish I had more shots. My apologies to the missing artists.

The 36th Annual Spring Art Show ends on May 17th.

Hanging It Up

 As of last week I’ve retired from the San Geronimo Valley Community Center where I worked in Arts and Events. I’ve already said it all in my recent column in the Center’s quarterly newspaper Stone Soup. So, rather than rehashing here it is:

Oh Boy, it’s the 33rd Annual Spring Art Show

The 33rd annual Spring Art Show at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center has come and gone.

This year we had nearly 90 artists from the San Geronimo Valley area for the May showing (You can take a quick video peak in the previous posting thanks to Michel Kotski).

Here are  few highlights:

“Beachcomber Weekend"

Martha Cederstrom

This is a personal favorite by Beth Marx, “Yakkers"

Beth Marx

This lovely acrylic piece by Anne Pennypacker is hardly any larger than posted here.”Gardner’s Trusty Tools"

Here’s Sonny Smith’s ceramic “End Times Dogs"

Judy North’s “There Was a Young Man”, Fluid acrylic and collage

Justin Thomas’ piece titled “Ripple"

Liz Lauter with her ceramic “The First Time Adam Had to Wait His Turn"

Geoff Bernstein’s Acrylic painting “Five Villages of Cinque Terre, Italy”

Sam Harris’ Acrylic and mixed media,  “Bee’s Purple”

Colorful Andy Giddings with equally colorful watercolor, “Shadow of the Shark”

 Bill Stoesser's fine wood sculpture “Volucris"

Priscilla Patey’s oil, “Out to Pasture"

Madeleine Pearce’s wood sculpture “Jumbo one"

Judith Selby Lang’s  “Peanut Gnomes"

Richard lang’s Collage and watercolor, “Bodhi Tree”

Dan Breaux’s Table, steel, stone and glass

Danielle Fogel’s amazing mixed media "Nesting"

John Beck’s first appearance in the Spring Art Show with his oil, “Cataract Falls”

Cornelia Nevit’s remarkable ceramic portrait of President Zelenskyy

Marty Meade’s watercolor “Guard Dog of My Holy Spirit”

Gisela Alvarado’s lovely photo, “Moment of Love"

Barbara Libby Steinmann with her “Pink Peonies"

Elaine Nehm’s “Study of Dreams of Quan Yi”, pigment powder on paper

Abby Cunnigham’s photography

Bud Meade’s “Vessel, Awaiting the Sacred”

Louis Nuyen’s oil painting, “Nautilus Dusk”

Judy Arndt’s “Valley Morning”

Tim Arnoux’s amazing woodworking on “Lingerie Cabinet"

Laura Marinelli’s dark and mysterious ceramic work,“Fear Comes to Tea"

Maria Gomez and her mixed media “I Am"

Janice Baldwin with “Growing Tulips”

Mallory Geitheim’s photo”Hangin’"

Gaetano De Felice’s fine “Going Home”

Carole Williams with “Harris Beach 2021”

Michel Kotski’s “Bouquet Macro"

Sandy White’s “Sierra Redwoods"

Reid Marple’s oil "Mt. Tam from the Petaluma Gap"

Richard D. James and his photo, “Greece"

Carole Alter “Fragments Reconfigured in Light"

Karlon Kepcke with “Dream Time”

Marie Eisen with her ceramic “Ms. Calico Cat"

Sherry Petrini with her oil painting titled “Interior”

Parra O’Siochain’s “Jazz in Sea 3.23"

Lars Johnson’s Oil painting “Synapse” 

Janet Hughes’ fabric art

Tim Cain’s “Wooden Path"

Soda-fired Stoneware by Kathryn Rile

Meztli Sanchez with her jewelry

Aside from traditional materials, Meztli works with animal bone

 Amin Al-Jamal’s remarkable Polymer Sculpture

Paul Valente’s “Woodacre Buckeye Burl"

Kristin Jakob’s “California Poppy"

Karen Koenig’s watercolor “Canyon De Chelly, Navajo Nation”

Laura Kradjan-Cronin’s triptych: “Astoria ’73"

My photo doesn’t do justice to Anne Faught’s “Heavenly Bodies”.

It employs cyanotype treated paper with white pencil

Another really fine piece by Tom Tabakin, titled “Tuxedo Junction”. The medium is cold wax.

And another beauty by Justine ’Tot’ Tatarsky. “Golden Summer”, glazes on ceramic tile.

Molly’s in the show, too, with her latest portrait, “The Man WHo Loves His Cat"

Special thanks to JeanA Warner who did the floral arrangements

And Donn DeAngelo who did the photos of the artists.                                                                            (Seen here with his piece,”Sunset at Chimney Rock”)

This post is a partial glimpse of this year's Spring Art Show. My apologies to all the artists who I don’t have photos of.