Images:
Bottom left, Stephen Hearne, Break on Through
Top left, Eunice Chan, Night Shadows
Right, Nancy Hall, Before Birth
Bottom center, Melinda Lightfoot, Gray Areas (softly)
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Pacifica,
CA – In 1959, Postmistress Juanita Lombardi gathered together artists
in the newly incorporated City of Pacifica, and 22 of them became
charter members of the Art Guild of Pacifica. Their first formal
exhibit was held at the Sea Bowl. Since that time, Art Guild of
Pacifica has accumulated almost 200 members, and there have been
54 member exhibitions. Powering along on the steam of its volunteers,
AGP is the cornerstone of Pacifica’s art scene, providing artistic
opportunities to its membership and thereby art to the community.
The 55th Annual Members Exhibition opens on Friday, October 11,
2013, at Sanchez Art Center with a reception from 7 to 9 pm, and
closes on November 17, 2013. The reception features live music and
is free to the public.
The winners of last
year’s show, Eunice Chan, Nancy Hall, Stephen Hearne, and Melinda
Lightfoot, will present their artwork in a group exhibit in the
Main Gallery. Melinda Lightfoot won the 2012 exhibit award with
her pastel piece entitled “Gray Areas (softly).” In her new pastel
works, she delves further into this medium to discover brilliant
color, soft edges, and many opportunities for blending. Lightfoot
also experiments with the particulate nature of pastels to create
an unblended overlay of color. Eunice Chan won with her piece titled
“Night Shadows,” an infusion of watercolor and ink. Chan says she
frequently finds herself intrigued with abstract elements: “I often
start with a concept, and in developing it, the painting moves in
a different direction. There is always the conflict between trying
to bring it back to the original concept, or to proceed freely and
see where it leads me.” The other Exhibition Award winners, Nancy
Hall and Stephen Hearne, work in mixed media. Hall’s award-winning
assemblage in metal and mirrors was entitled “Before Birth.” Hearne
created a vocabulary all his own with his Coca-Cola crate constructions,
such as “Break on Through,” which won him the award. These four
artists were selected by Tim Berry, an accomplished and widely respected
artist who is on the faculty of San Francisco Art Institute and
University of California Davis.
This year’s Annual
Members Exhibition will be judged by Amir Esfahani, an accomplished
artist currently on the faculty at Skyline College. Mr. Esfahani
holds a BA from California State University Sacramento and an MFA
from San Francisco Art Institute. He has exhibited in many galleries
in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout California.
Visit artguildofpacifica.org
for more information.
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