Working for the past 15 years on the site of the former Synanon cult compound in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Bachrun LoMele has built his art practice into a self-perpetuating exploration of the vexed notion of personal truth. The artist solicits anonymous volunteers to record what they believe to be true statements in privacy. He […]
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The Return of ‘30,000 Salmon’
In mid-September of 2002, tens of thousands of fish (mostly Chinook salmon) turned up dead on the Klamath River. Attributed in part to low water flow from the Iron Gate Dam, the devastating fish kill left an enormous impact on the local community, artist Becky Evans included. A self-described “land-based artist,” Evans tends to let […]
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Ruth Arietta’s Illusory Interiors at Morris Graves Museum of Art
Ruth Arietta paints both outdoor and indoor scenes, but it’s the paintings of domestic interiors that showcase the particular strengths of her approach. In these works, densely patterned surfaces negotiate new relationships with the rectilinear volumes set up to contain them. Sometimes they abide within the constraints imposed by floor tiles, window casements, picture frames […]
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Jan Ramsey’s Pilgrimage
“I can’t remember not drawing,” Jan Ramsey says. She was the oldest of three kids and they’d sit in a circle and draw from books. Today, Ramsey sees art “as an extension of my life and my prayer.” Ramsey is well known in Humboldt County for the many ways she’s brought art to the community: […]
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Close to Wilderness
It took the death of a friend for Lindsay Lacewell Kessner, whose show Humboldt County Lost and Found is at the Morris Graves Museum of Art through Aug. 6, to realize “life is too short for mediocrity.” Kessner was 26 at the time, living in Chicago and coasting along working as a nanny, when a […]
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Lynn M. Jones Carves Out Her Niche
Looking through the window at Just My Type Letterpress Paperie’s new location on Second Street, you see a humming scene: a miniature letterpress, with delicate fair-trade Himalayan paper rosettes hanging above. Behind are displays of cards, prints and stickers. In keeping with the shop’s theme, it has an old-timey feel. Shops all over the country […]
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April Showers Bring May’s Kinetic Artwork
After a long winter, we are almost ready for Humboldt’s favorite Memorial Day weekend event: the Kinetic Grand Championship. As we gear up for the fun at the end of the month, the Epitome Gallery in Old Town is getting the party started with a May-long exhibition of work by the muralist, visual artist extraordinaire […]
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Creativity Shouldn’t Cost the World
Attention crafters, recycling mavens and parents looking for affordable, sparkly reused treasures for your children: If you have been missing SCRAP Humboldt, it’s time to welcome Maker’s Apron Creative Reuse to our community. Informally known by its people as the “spiritual successor to SCRAP Humboldt,” the whimsical, colorful spot in Old Town Eureka is dedicated […]
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Spring is in the Air
The signs of Humboldt spring are everywhere: budding trees, muddy holes, emerging trilliums and gardeners doing their thing. What does spring look like to you? If you hurry and visit the Redwood Art Association Gallery before April 15, you will get a chance to see what spring looks like to some of our local artists. […]
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Some Assembly Required
This month’s Arts Alive at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka showcased three very different exhibitions that, each in its own way, explore the interconnected resilience and breakdown of complex systems. In addressing the conceptual and the material, the group show Powerful Fragility, Clea Felien’s Ever Giving, and Annakatrin Burnham’s T/HERE, incorporate modularity, […]
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The Surprise of Katie Pasquini Masopust’s Capriccio
Now through Jan. 22 at The Morris Graves Museum of Art, Katie Pasquini Masopust displays her mastery of quilting and painting. Infusing her foundation in painting with her expertise in quilting, Pasquini Masopust invites spectators to see through a new and unique lens that at once comforts and stretches the imagination in her latest exhibition […]
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Self Definition in My Black Is …
Now through Dec. 3, nine local artists showcase their unique expressions of Black identity at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Reese Bullen Gallery. The exhibition My Black Is … centralizes Black and brown bodies in an academic institutional gallery setting, a context that can be dominated by white people, and presents an array of media, styles, energies […]