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Reflections on Summer's Bounty, Aug. 14-Sept. 11, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 14th from 5-8 pm
Two local artists, both inspired by the beauty of the late summer season.
Gitta Brewster moved to Northern California from Germany in 1986. She was and continues to be impressed by the abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables produced here. Her love of the locally grown produce, her own garden, and drawing and painting has inspired her. Quite naturally, the crops I harvested or brought home from local markets wound up on a table in my art space. Inspired by the color and shape of the produce she paints, Gitta has also focused on fruit from tropical places, as well as, flowers. I do not attempt to copy nature…Neither do I attempt perfection. It is the slight irregularity, the slight imperfection, like the little speckles on the skin of a pear or asymmetry of a persons face that makes me want to take a second look. I hope to achieve that kind of imperfection in my artwork. Gitta is a strong supporter of the Chico art community. She is an active member in both the Chico Art Center and the Chico Visual Arts Alliance.
David Smallhouse has begun his forth decade as a glassblower with the same enthusiasm and excitement as when he was first introduced to the art at Orient & Flume. In 2001, he opened a Chico studio in his home, Smallhouse Art Glass. In his own studio with a new palette of color and an array of new shapes and designs, he has continued with technical excellence and fresh creativity. His work encompasses vibrant colors and strong organic shapes. His art glass is shown in fine galleries internationally, with private collections world wide and in the Corning Museum of Glass. David describes his art as an eclectic blend of elements… everything I have seen and liked in life.
Join us, as we celebrate art expressive of the beauty we Californians are so lucky to live amid on Saturday, August 14th from 5-8. There will be an artistic demonstration and live music as well as refreshments.
ALSO,
The Artistry is doing something unlike anything else done in Chico… a gallery within a gallery.
Thats right! On Saturday, August 14th from 5-8, join us for the Grand Opening of the Delbert Rupp Gallery: a showing space exhibiting Delbert Rupps large-scale ceramic sculpture, located within The Artistry.
Delbert Rupp is not a typical ceramist. After taking some night classes in ceramics, he quickly discovered that he not only loved wheel throwing, but that he was good at it. He was quickly bored by production pottery and so moved into producing unique, one-of-a-kind work. He developed his own method of throwing, then manipulating clay into an organic form. In his large sculptural pieces, Delbert strives to create a perfect balance between negative and positive space as well as a rhythmic movement and grace.
I like the challenge of making something out of nothing. I enjoy using a given space and doing what the clay tells me it wants to do. I like that I can have a vision but not total control. Even when I do a series of similar shapes, the clay sometimes wants to do its own thing. Its a partnership.
Delbert Rupp lives in Paradise and drives down to All Fired Up! Ceramic Art Center 3 times a week. Stop in any time and you may get the opportunity to see him and talk to him about his work. He does numerous demonstrations for the public and is a teacher and mentor to those ceramist that know him and get the pleasure to meet him.
Dont miss the Grand Opening of his very own, self-titled gallery space Saturday, August 14th from 5-8. There will be live music and refreshments.
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