For most of us here in Eureka, the trauma of Jan. 9, 2010, has faded into the annals of earthquakes past. Living near the triple junction, seismic shifts are our lot. If we remember the date at all, we probably think that was the day we personally dodged a bullet. Miraculously no lives were lost, […]
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The Juice, the Jump and Curtis Otto
If you’ve ever cruised down E Street in Eureka, done a double-take at the house next to the Labor Temple at Ninth Street and wondered, “Are those really oil paintings crammed at the front door, leaning on the hedges and tumbling out onto the lawn?” … you would be correct. And if you took the […]
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Arts Alive! December
Humboldt State University’s First Street Gallery presents its annual Regional Holiday Exhibition, a fundraiser featuring artwork by 32 North Coast artists working in diverse styles and mediums. The exhibition, running through Dec. 23, emphasizes works by four of our region’s leading innovators in ceramic art: Scott North, Louis Marak, Keith Schneider and Nancy Frazier including […]
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Place
For many artists living and working in Humboldt County, no matter their style or medium, the diverse natural beauty of this place inspires passion. Temperament and craft play their part in the approaches the artists interviewed here take in expressing their environs, be it town or county, with results that are as varied and striking […]
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Arts Alive! November
Lynn Carlin continues her exploration of movement and pattern in watery worlds with a show of original acrylics on paper at Old Town Antique Lighting. Lynn’s impromptu spirit is well suited to her subject matter. “I try to work fast, intuitively choosing colors and creating an overall look that feels right in the moment,” she […]
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The Bigger Picture
The idea of transforming an outdoor site or the interior of a museum/gallery into a work of art itself is now formally classified as environmental or installation art. The objective is to change the viewer’s perspective from looking at a painting or a sculpture, to one of feeling surrounded by and engaged in a wider […]
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A World of Paint
The much-anticipated show by local artist Rachel Schlueter at the Morris Graves Museum this month is an impressive celebration of the art and artists that have most influenced her meteoric career. The show, A World of Paint, pays homage to over two dozen artists in that most flattering and yet most difficult genre, portraiture. Rachel […]
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On the Beat September
First Street Gallery kicks off its fall season with the annual HSU Art Department Faculty and Staff Exhibition. The show is all around good and affords an opportunity for students returning to classes this month, as well as the general public, to get an overview of the quality and diversity of instruction offered at Humboldt […]
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Ice, Fire and Water
Claire Iris Schencke’s ambitious exhibit, The Glacier Art Project and At Waters’ Edge, is the culmination of a six-year project sketching glaciers on location from Alaska to Argentina’s Tierra Del Fuego. Helsinki-born, Iris (pronounced “EER-riss”) admits to having always been attracted to water and ice. “I fell in love with glaciers the first time I […]
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On the Beat in August
Extended congratulations to Jack Sewell for a gala opening last month of his new Sewell Gallery at 423 F St. This welcome addition to our art scene includes a wide array of work by some of our finest local artists. In August, that includes a section featuring the paintings of Alicia Tredway — good timing, […]
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In The Open Air
In the tradition of the 19th century French impressionists who regularly painted outdoors — en plein air — 25 of our local artists will participate in the fourth annual event, “Art in the Garden,” a fundraiser for the Redwood Art Association’s building fund. The setting is the truly magnificent garden at the home of Lynne […]
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Emerging and Re-emerging
The term “emerging artists” figures prominently in this month’s Arts Alive! shows. The phrase is usually ascribed to artists who are beginning to master their craft, and who show promise and devotion to expressing their vision. Imagine a chrysalis opening up to reveal some lovely winged creature — emerging, moving forward. An exhibit titled e·las·tic: […]