Molly's Latest Painting

Here's Molly's latest painting. It debuted at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center's 22nd Annual Spring Art Show.  For whatever reason, she hasn't bothered to post it. I think it worth taking a look at.

-Larry

Untitled,  Acrylic. Copyright by Molly Rea

Photo courtesty of Donn DeAngelo

22nd Annual Spring Art Show

The 22nd annual Spring Art Show at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center is up and running.

The reception was Friday, May 11th --which also happened to be my birthday. I can't think of a better place to celebrate my birthday than at work (How many people can say that?).





Dahlia, Veronica, Connie and Jack and others

 

Sierra Tunafish meets Gaetano DeFelice



Brian Staley and one of his remarkable creations

Fine printmaker Fred Lee Berensmeier

Griffe Griffiths

Marcia Ganeles-Kislik

Sam Andrew

Lanee Lowell

Karl O.Lichtenstein

Molly Rea herself

That man of mystery--Mot

Me too-with my block print "Xavier"

The young and handsome Sam and his ancient father

Our Thursday Nighters supplied the music

Thanks to Molly and company I wound up with a surprise birthday party.

Sam and Julie deliver the goods.

A great night.

Artists portrait shots courtesy of Donn DeAngelo

Group shots and crowd shots courtsey of Michel Kotski

Happy Birthday Larry Rippee

Happy Birthday Sweetheart

Happy Birthday Molly Rea

Happy Birthday my dear.

Molly's Turn: It's been a long time coming

It's been a while since I've added anything to our blog.  I am currently working on 3 new paintings, but for today I would like to post some random peices I like which I have done over the last 20 years.  Here goes!



This is a family crest requested by artist Danielle Fogel.



Dragonfly over water. Here I experimented wtih unstreched canvas.



A (very small) man from Darfu.
(This is the way to hold your hand for a formal greeting rather than shaking hands.)



Memmorial for 3 Women



Moth Over Moonscape





My Father, Robert Hagopian, RIP

Heads UP!!

I have a new venture I am excited about, I am creating an ongoing painting class this summer, which will be held here in our studio in Fairfax.  Our studio will hopefully include cartooning and linolium workshops created by Larry as well.  We will keep you posted.

Magical Mystery Tour meets Mayan Apocalypse

It's just about time for the 22nd Annual Spring Art Show at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center.Up to 100 artists from the San Geronimo and Nicasio valleys.The show runs from May 11th until May 20th. The reception is on Friday, May 11th, 6:30 to 9pm, and tends to attract hundreds of people. All of which means we -Larry and Molly-have a whole lot of work to do in the next several days.

This years poster -filled wit all manner of digital trickery-was created by Donn DeAngelo. He tells me he was attempting to take on a bit of the spirirt of the old Beatles album covers Magical Mystery Tour (and perhaps Sgt. Peppers).

Artwork copyright Donn DeAngelo

40 Years of Students with Richard Shaw

On Thursday, April 5^th, we attended 40+ Years of Students (aka Richard Shaw’s retirement party).

Aside from an international reputation as a ceramicist, Richard has also taught ceramics -first at the San Francisco Art Institute -and for the last 20-some-odd years at U.C. Berkeley.



Group photos of Richard's students

The party and exhibit was held at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery at UC Berkeley Kroeber Hall.

The exhibit included work by many of Richard’s former students.



Bust of Shaw



Regrettably, I couldn’t find the artist’s name associated with this bust of Richard.



Portrait by Elise Putnam



This piece was a knockout. A portrait of Richard painted with clay directly onto the gallery wall. The bucket of clay sat on the floor just below.

An old friend of Richard’s, Roy, brought a box of memorabilia from past Shaw exhibits and spread them on the floor.

Virgil, Martha, Alice and Richard

Music was provided by our usual Thursday night crew.

Tony, John, Judy, Tom and Molly (others not seen here include Jeanne, Oletha, Scott, Ned, Jenny, Torin and Patty).

Someone provided Richard “Two Buck Rick” Shaw wine.

Reception was very well attended although I failed to get any crowd shots.

The show runs April 5th through 28^th.

Larry's Vault: More From the Pages of Graphiti

Last post focused on the long-gone graphic artists group, Artists in Print, and the AIP tabloid Graphiti.

Here's a report from the pages of Graphiti titled "Attention: Perspiring Cartoonists" (May 1979) on a AIP sponsored cartoonists seminar.





drawn by David Nesbitt


The featured guests were Sergio Aragones, Phil Frank, Harry Driggs, B.Kliban and William Hamilton.

Larry's Vault: Artists in Print of San Francisco

Artists in Print, the San Francisco Graphics Artists Guild was a non-profit organization of and for graphic artists in the San Francisco bay area. AIP was founded around 1975 and provided workshops, seminars, educational events, exhibits and a much needed communication network between local graphic artists.

The membership roster included designers, photographers, calligraphers, illustrators (medical  illustrators, fashion illustrators), copy writers and cartoonists – in addition to typesetters, paste-up artists, layout artists and probably a whole lot of others occupations that are now extinct

I was a member in the mid 70’s-early‘80’s and thought AIP served its member well as an educational program.

Meeting topics included Elimination of Advertising, A Defense of Advertising, Selling Your Graphic Humor, Fear and Creativity, Illustrating the Children’s Book and Artwork by Computer (in the late 1970’s not too many people knew what that meant). Featured artists and speakers (at events and in the pages of Graphiti ) included  Ardeshir Mohasses, Primo Angelli, Dugald Stermer, Jerry Mander, Leslie Cabarga and Milton Glaser.

Art by Tim Boxell

Art by Phil Frank



Art by Lourdes Agnes Duterte



Art by Erkki Alanen

AIP is long gone. I left San Francisco in the mid-80’s and lost track of the guild. I have no idea what happened to it.  

Graphiti, the AIP tabloid, was published bi-monthly and highlighted a lot of nice work.

(Click on images to enlarge)

Here are few examples of AIP members work from Graphiti (and the AIP Directory).

Art by Bruce McGillivray



Promo by my old pal, Alan Cumings



Erkki Alanen, a very talented artist originally from Finland

Steve Leialoha's great piece for a portfolio night



Art by Leialoha



Here's a couple of things I did for Graphiti :

One issue of Graphiti was dedicated to hand lettering. Here are profiles on Leslie Cabarga, Becky Wilson and Tom Orzechowski :
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Fine calligraphy by Jenny Hunter Groat



Art by John Patrick Sullivan



All artwork copyright by respective artists