Upcoming Events
August 2018
Louis Marak Exhibition
Opening Reception August 25th @ 7 pm Louis Marak solo exhibition will be the largest collection of celebrated career. Louis Marak is one of the ceramic world's most renowned artists. His exhibition will run from August 15-September 22nd. Louis Marak was born in 1942 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. In 1965 he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Crafts from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in ceramics in 1967 from Alfred…
Find out more »International Figurative Biennale and Louis Marak Exhibition
International Figurative Biennale Exhibition Duration: August 15 – September 22 Opening Reception: August 25th @ 7 pm Location: John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA With figurative paintings from every culture and style imaginable, there is something for everyone at the one-of-a-kind International Figurative Biennale! Don't miss this unforgettable exhibition which only comes once every 2 years. It's the only show of its kind on the West Coast and runs August 15- September 22 at John Natsoulas Gallery. The show was created to give the…
Find out more »International Figurative Biennale
Opening Reception August 25th @ 7 pm The John Natsoulas Center for the Arts presents the International Figurative Biennale, August 15st through September 22th, 2018. The exhibition shows how the figure in contemporary painting is handled, spanning from the Middle East to Asia to Europe to the United States. For the public at large, the opportunity to experience avant-garde, worldwide trends in art outside international arenas such as the Venice Biennale is a rare occurrence. The great writer, Edward…
Find out more »September 2018
Boyd Gavin and Sarah Lam
Boyd Gavin received his BA from University of Santa Cruz, and his MA from California State University, Sacramento. Gavin paints in a very straightforward manner, with a loose brushstroke and bright palette that lends itself well to painting small, easily recognizable objects such as crayons and marbles. He says “I am drawn to the quirky shorthand style of artists like Fairfield Porter or David Park, artists who seem to invest even the homeliest of subjects with an offhand grandeur.” He has exhibited…
Find out more »October 2018
Pat Mahony and Julie Smiley
Opening Reception: November 10th, 7 – 9 p.m. Pat Mahony, long associated with the Sacramento Valley School, creates lush landscapes and poignant still lifes, which reflect years of study of the characteristics of light. As her work has evolved from urban scenes, to river landscapes and then to still lifes, Mahony has maintained an abstracted view of her subject matter while exploring color and drama through the contrast of light and dark. These elements have remained the central focus of…
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Michele Gregor
Michelle Gregor received her BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz (Chancellor’s Grant) in 1983 and her MFA from San Francisco State University in 1994 (Outstanding M.F.A. Candidate, Art Department). Considered a leading figure in the second generation of Bay Area Figuration, Gregor is a multifaceted artist who works in clay, bronze, paint and drawing media, handling each medium with a process-oriented and intuitive approach that results in painterly forms and images. She has a masterful, intuitive…
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