Paul Cézanne is a  French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work has laid the foundations of the transition from the 20th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 21th -century. Cézanne’s often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of color and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. His work will be at the Ventura Breeze Basement Gallery from April 1, 2016 until April 1, 2078.

Cezanne will attend an opening reception for the show from 5-7 p.m. and will be signing his work at the Gallery. Lobster and beer will be served.

March 30 – April 17- Public Reception
Saturday, April 16 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Ventura Harbor Village Gallery

The public is invited to join Focus on the Masters (FOTM) and Buenaventura Art Association for a celebration of youthful expression featuring artwork created with Learning To See Outreach.  For more information about Learning To See, contact [email protected] or 653.2501.

On  Monday March 28 (doors open at 6:45 pm program begins at 7:15 pm ) the  Ventura County Potters’ Guild presents Scott Semple … Throwing BIG  (demonstration and talk)

The Potters’ Guild welcomes local and internationally recognized Santa Barbara County ceramic artist Scott Semple.  Semple is a large format potter who has lived, worked, and studied with native peoples and resources in some of the most remote places in the country and abroad. He was introduced to clay in his freshman year of high school when he found that his fellow surfing classmates also took ceramics. “For me, the commitment to becoming a ceramic artist meant to become aware of the acute level of service we choose to pay to history as artists, lending our interpretations to fire. “

The Ventura Avenue Adult Center

550 N Ventura Avenue

“Going Under The Knife” by Johanna Spinks an exploration of palette knife portraiture will be at the Museum of Ventura County Tool Room Gallery at the Bell Arts Factory (432 N. Ventura Ave.)

Opening night, First Friday April 1st, 6-9pm

And viewing by  appointment by calling 310.384. 7029.

Just over two years ago, award-winning portrait artist Johanna Spinks decided to take a risk with her familiar paint brush: putting it down. In its place, she picked up a palette knife and began using the metal artist’s tool for her private, non-commissioned work in order to paint the people around her. Her upcoming curated show at the Museum of Ventura County’s Tool Room Gallery, entitled “Going Under the Knife,” is sampling of this palette knife work. Johanna’s mentor and seven-time presidential portrait painter Everett Raymond Kinstler, N.A. describes her palette knife portrait work as “a refreshing departure and journey into creative portraiture”.

Included in the show will be a large portrait of Ventura scientist and philanthropist 102 years’-young Howard Boroughs which was recently accepted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Ventura County. Johanna painted Howard in five life sittings an experience she holds most dear.

Johanna’s portraits have been featured many times in the Ventura Breeze. www.johannaspinks.com

“Reflections, Flowers and Forests relate to some of my favorite subjects,” Mark Hafeman said about the title of his solo exhibition at the Buenaventura Gallery in downtown Ventura. Showing until April 2.

Hafeman lives in Oxnard and is active in the Buenaventura Art Association. He has one of the studios at Harbor Village Gallery and serves on the association board of directors as its treasurer.

Reflections, Flowers and Forests range from 12 by 16 inches up to 16 by 20.

Buenaventura Gallery, at 700 E. Santa Clara St., is open 11 a.m- 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. For more about BAA programs and events, visit the nonprofit cooperative’s website, www.buenaventuragallery.org, or call 648-1235 during gallery hours.

The Morris Graves Museum of Art and the Humboldt Arts Council will be presenting a solo show of paintings and works on paper by Ventura artist Erik ReeL from March 12  to  April 1. ReeL was heavily influenced by Morris Graves and his compatriots, Mark Tobey and Kenneth Callahan from an early age; these artists were major factors in his choice to pursue painting and art.

ReeL states, “For me, this exhibition and showing in this particular museum is like coming full circle. It is a great privilege to be exhibiting with the organization that takes care of a collection and estate that contains work by artists that had such an impact on my development, including two Tobeys as well as many fine works by Morris Graves. Erik ReeL is a contemporary American artist living in Ventura. His work addressing post-conceptual issues related to mark making and signification. For more of his art go to erikreel.com

Exhibit at 636 F Street, Eureka, California.