Category Archives: Ventura Art Scene

Arts & Eats in downtown Ventura Saturday, Sept. 16

Arts & Eats will be held in downtown Ventura on Saturday, September 16 from 6 – 8pm. Sixteen galleries, restaurants and shops open their doors for art receptions and complimentary tastes. The event is free to the public. Fox Fine Jewelry will be on the tour.

Marta Nelson and her artist’s group will display their art in “Celebrating Marta Nelson” at Fox Fine Jewelry from September 14 to November 12, with an Art Reception on September 16 from 6 – 8:00pm. Musician Corinn Conant will sing and play guitar during the reception. 560 E. Main St.

Oxnard’s Levity Live at The Collection

A Conversation with Lynn Hanson Sunday, September 24, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

The Collection – 591 Collection Blvd.

Lynn Hanson’s work stems from a rapt attention and visceral connection to the natural world: from a childhood stalking garter snakes at Whiskey Ditch in rural Minnesota to a daily ritual of exploring beaches and canyons along the California coast. To learn about Lynn Hanson visit www.LynnHanson.com.

Make your reservation today! www.FocusOnTheMasters.com or 653.2501. $10 for the general public, $5 for seniors, and free to Focus on the Masters Members. Not a member? Sign up today at www.FocusOnTheMasters.com.

The Artist Spotlight is open to students attending as a class assignment free of charge. Faculty and students are requested to make a reservation.

Join for AfterGLOW, a celebratory reception at the Ventura home of Martin and Virginia Furmanski immediately following the program. The AfterGLOW is $25 for FOTM members, $35 for non-members. Paid reservations are essential and required prior to September 19. For RSVP – tickets visit www.FocusOnTheMasters.com or call 653-2501.

World renowned chalk artists to create sidewalk masterpieces at Ventura Art & Street Painting Festival

Seaside backdrop for Ventura Art & Street Painting Festival to benefit FOOD Share of Ventura County and Kids Arts Inc. At Ventura County’s only chalk art event, more than 40 talented chalk artists will transform Ventura Harbor Village sidewalks into beautiful works of art during the family-friendly Festival, Sept. 9th and 10th from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. This festival is hosted by Ventura County Art Events, Inc.

Visitors to the seaside event will watch as street painters create spectacular chalk pastel murals along the promenade, and enjoy original artwork available for purchase including paintings, sculptures, woodwork and wearable items. Children visiting the festival can also create art on the sidewalk in the Children’s Chalk Area, run by local group Kids’ Arts, Inc. For $10, children will receive a small box of their own chalk and a sidewalk square where they can create their own masterpiece.

This year, the festival welcomes two world-renowned chalk artists. Ventura resident Tracy Lee Stum, an internationally recognized American street painter and author of “The Art of Chalk”, and Rod Tryon, a Santa Barbara resident who has been street painting for 30 years and has been featured in numerous events in the U.S. and abroad.

Stum, who was the official artist for the US House at the 2010 Winter Olympics, is also known for her chalk artwork at the Super Bowl XLIX game.

“For me, street painting is absolutely the most joyful form of creative expression I have engaged in,” says Stum. “An event like the Ventura Art and Street Painting Festival is so important because it keeps art alive in our community.”

A veteran street painter, Tryon has been featured in numerous street painting events as well as a documentary film entitled “Life Beyond Earth” and a music video for iCarly’s Miranda Cosgrove.

Complimentary rides to the festival are available on the Downtown-Harbor Trolley from California Street, Pierpont neighborhood, and hotels along the waterfront.

Event information:http://www.venturaartfestival.com/ or VenturaHarborVillage.com.

Lili Miura’s fine art painting series, “Femmes Japonaises” at Buenaventura Gallery

Lili Miura will have an exhibition of her fine art painting series, “Femmes Japonaises.”

From Sept. 5th through Oct. 8th, at the Buenaventura Gallery. Artist reception Saturday, Sept. 9.

Originally from Tokyo, Japan after immigrating to United States, she studied fine art and design. Miura went on to have a long and successful career as a lead designer, as well as becoming the head of an International design firm in Torrance.

Exhibition also includes BAA members’ show, and Plein Air Art.
700 E. Santa Clara St. Gallery is open Tuesday – Sunday. 11 am – 5 pm
www.LiliMiura.com

Vita Art Center presents Autonomy and Cultural Identity: 20th Century Art of Latin America

Vita Art Center presents Autonomy and Cultural Identity: 20th Century Art of Latin America

Curator: Ann H. Bittl

Opening reception Friday, September 1 from 6-9 p.m.

Exhibit Dates: September 1 thru September 29

Beginning in the modern era, the art of Latin America and Mexico is complex yet filled with optimism in the search for a cultural identity. The purpose of this exhibition is to explore the art of Latin America and Mexico during the 20th century.

432 N Ventura Ave. Hours: Open today · 10AM–4PM 644-9214

Jim and Ella Wright’s Magic Forest

Husband and wife Jim and Ella Wright are an art family. Jim started metal sculpture in 1969 at a small store on Ventura Ave called the Magic Forest. He moved on to craft shows and street fairs and is now full time artist since retiring. Ellen Wright retired as a right away agent for So Cal Edison. She took a group of stain glass classes from Calico Art glass in Ventura. After completing two different sets of classes in stain glass and doing a few projects she was told of a fused glass class and completed that.

They decided that was where their hearts were and now work in both metal and glass.

They continue to learn and expand their work shop meeting new people at the craft shows that they are vendors at. They are always looking for new Ideas to form into projects, and enjoy doing custom work for customers

They sell at the First Fridays Art Walk at the Stone Works gallery and second Saturdays at the VC Art Market at Figueroa plaza and Main. Facebook [email protected] to learn more about them.

Art City Gallery presents First Friday on Sept.1: Art History Series 1

Art City Gallery presents First Friday on Sept.1: Art History Series 1, 9-12 pm. 197 Dubbers St., Ventura

Cameron Leggett and Sophia Grace Kidd present the first installment of the Art City History Series, part of a broader cultural-anthropological inquest archiving the city of Ventura’s avant-garde history, from the mid-eighties to the present.

From 9:00—9:30 pm—Paul Lindhard will guide the audience through a historical slide-show incorporating early images taken by such eminent photographers as S. Dirk Shafer of early works by Paul Lindhard, Joanne Duby, and Rudy Calderon, among others.

After 9:30 Cameron Leggett will continue the slide show with generative art utilizing images of Art City and other subjects run through Pure Data while Opal Gann performs accompanying soundscapes and electronic tonalities.

$5 Suggested Donation

Also Art City Gallery presents Was Ist Das? on Sept.8. A cabaret hosted by Jason Poston and Mathew Godfrey and curated by Kevin Carman from 8-11pm. A benefit for the Art City Mural Project. 197 Dubbers St. $10 suggested donation.

Exhibition of artworks by Buenaventura Art Association members

Exhibition of artworks by Buenaventura Art Association members will be augmented by three individual shows: Kathy Ikerd of Santa Paula and Lili Miura of Port Hueneme in the Clophine Dooley Gallery, and Darlene Roker of Ventura on the main gallery’s red wall.

Ikerd’s show, titled “Excursions,” Miura’s “Femmes Japonaises” and Roker’s “Black and White (With a Touch of Color)” will be on display Sept. 5-Oct. 8. Two receptions are planned, 5-7 p.m. Sept. 9 and from 5-8 p.m. the following Saturday, Sept. 16,Oct. 7-8 corresponds with the Ventura ArtWalk.

Throughout this run, smaller groupings by Carol Simson and Mary Kolada Scott, two Ventura artists whose works earned outstanding merit awards in the current BAA show, will be up in the gallery’s central hallway.

Buenaventura Gallery, 700 E. Santa Clara St. which is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. For more information, visit the BAA website, www.buenaventuragallery.org, or call 648-1235 during gallery hours.

Group exhibition at H Gallery in Midtown Ventura until Oct. 1

Growth is the fundamental objective of all biotic components, every factor requiring energy and sustenance for proper evolution. The work featured in this group exhibition draws equally from environmental experience, mass media, and sub-cultural positions while seeking to convey the often overlooked or undervalued messages of organic development and human influence.

18 artists explore the subterfuge and effect of their individual mediums, juggling immediacy of expression, perfection of surface, and ambiguousness of meaning.