Campbell Artists Guild of which I am a member will have their annual art show at the Rose Shenson Gallery from September 5 till October 4, 2009.
Rose Shenson gallery is located on the grounds of the Triton Museum of Art, 1505 Warburton Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95050.
The show will be open on Saturday and Sundays.
Come to see my new piece, On the Racetrack III, and previous works: On the Racetrack I, On the Racetrack II, Running Free, and Russian Ridge View.
In an interesting move, Google now asks notable artists to provide them with free art for its new browser, Chrome.
The best part is that Google solicits this type of work from notable artists like Joe Ciardiello and Melinda Beck. If it was general crowdsourcing, I could understand it somewhat – emerging illustrators or hobbyists don’t mind to work for exposure only, just go look at those contest places all over the web. It’s still means using and abusing people to me, but since those people don’t seem to mind I don’t particularly care either. But to approach someone who worked for the likes of ESPN and Rolling Stone and ask for a freebie is an insult. Those artists had plenty of exposure already and were paid for their work too. It’s not as if Google could not do the same.
So maybe crowdsourcing does have a nasty effect on the rest of creative community: if so many artists have no problem with working for free, the rest are expected to cave in and do the same, accepting it as a new norm.
I was invited to participate in the juried SVOS Invitational Exhibition that takes place at the Pacific Art League from September 4 till September 28, 2009.
Two artworks will be on display: Plum Blossoms in Los Gatos Creek Park and Bonding:
Opening reception at PAL: September 4, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Show location: Pacific Art League, 668 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301
The festival moved to the Pioneer Memorial Park, Mountain View this year. It’s a smaller place than the grounds of the Triton Museum (or so it looked to me), but the park is right next to downtown Mountain View – a place that is more popular than Triton. No, seriously, many people have no idea what the Triton Museum is or even that Santa Clara has an art museum.
Fine Arts League of Cupertino and Campbell Artists’ Guild, to clubs to which I belong, were sharing a lawn at the edge of the park. I was showing with FALC and chatting with CAG friends too – nice!
Kushlani Hall only brought her jewelry; no encaustics, no oils or oil pastels. Her jewelry was gorgeous, of course.
Saw the finished piece that Holly Van Hart was doing at the FALC demo in May. It’s changed a lot, and I still liked it very much. She also had a larger painting similar to that one, and they complimented each other nicely, hanging on the same panel.
Haven’t seen what Donna Orme was doing for almost a year, so it was a special pleasure to stop by her display. I am yet to see a single monoprint of hers that I didn’t like. I can’t even pick a favorite because if I turn my head and look again I’ll change my mind. Her work is that awesome.
Found some great new art that I haven’t seen before: graceful watercolors by Cheryl Kampe and dreamy acrylics by Nance Wheeler.
Yelena Shabrova is an