Gualala Arts Promoting public interest and participation in the arts since 1961
Gualala Arts Presents:
Sculpture in the Gardens
“Sculpture in the Gardens” is to be a year-long exhibit opening Friday, April 8, 2022 from 5-7 pm, located in the Gualala Arts Global Harmony Sculpture Gardens.
All sculptures in this exhibit are for sale, ask at the Gualala Arts Front Desk for pricing information or email info@GualalaArts.org
Cameron Bishop
Kundalini
“Kunalini” among other things means “coiled snake.” The way I carve is most often intuitively- I had no idea I wanted to create the form of a snake until I had already begun cutting. I like to feel into the stone and let it decide what form it will take. I think the lines and striations follow it’s coils, confirming that the shape is appropriate.
The stone is wedgewood marble from Utah, the base is a micah schist.
I am a traveling stone carver, originally from England, learning as I move and moving as I learn. You can find other pieces of mine at the Mendocino Stone Zone, Art City Ventura and elsewhere abroad.
Cheers- Cameron
Kevin Carman
Dune Top
Atlanta native Kevin Carman is a self-taught, multimedium artist, who has been creating and exhibiting nationwide since 1994. His compelling works have received honors in numerous group exhibitions. He travels far and wide to collect materials and inspiration to produce on-site mosaic and sculptural installations, as well as various private commissions.
Through the use of unique materials, color, texture and multiple techniques; powerful thought and emotion evoking themes are visualized. Carman’s work, concerned always with nature and balance, conveys a sense of harmony and peace, leaving the viewer in reflective contemplation. Currently, Kevin is a resident artist at Art City Studios in Ventura, CA where he shares in the creative experience of an internationally renowned group of artists.
Matt Driscoll
Red Pendulum #1
Bia Gayotto
Forest Whisper
“Forest Whisper” is a megaphone sculpture designed to amplify the rich but often unnoticed sounds of the redwood forest. My inspiration for this project came after I learned that trees emit sounds at very low frequencies, which instilled a desire to listen and learn from them. A megaphone is a portable cone-shaped acoustic horn used to amplify a person’s voice or other sounds, and direct it in a given direction. Although it’s often used for speaking into it, the sculpture was designed as a tool for listening. Visitors are invited to place their ear next to the megaphone’s small opening, close their eyes and pause for a few moments to listen to the forest. What do you hear? How does it make you feel? By actively listening and interpreting the forest sounds, audiences may feel a sense of heightened awareness and peacefulness, and at the same time, reflect on their physical and spiritual connections with trees. “Forest Whisper” provides a space for audiences to slow down and meditate, in hopes that by listening to the forest, and oneself, audiences might enhance their ecological consciousness.
BIA GAYOTTO is a multimedia artist and independent curator, whose interdisciplinary approach combines photography, video, installations and books, combining elements of documentation, fieldwork, performance and collaboration. She earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996 and her work has been featured in many exhibitions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Pasadena Museum of California Art; Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA); Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Breeder Project, Athens, and Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo. Her work belongs to public collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; UCLA’s Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo; and Caltech, Pasadena, among others.
Paula Haymond
Bamboo Fence Totem
Paula Haymond is a mixed media sculptor who works with wood, metal, resin and stones to create one of a kind objects of art. Her works incorporate imagination, whimsy, enhanced by color, lace piercing and surface texturing.Her current focus is using non-functional musical instruments, changing them from performance art to visual art.
As a sculptor, Haymond is always looking for new materials to be used in her structures which spark the curiosity of others to explore those materials and designs closer. Haymond uses a wide variety of power tools, hand tools and micro machines to bring these pieces to life.
Jane Head
Renewal
“My aim with this installation was to create a colorful, vibrant, joyful and lighthearted space. A nod to the gifts that give me gratitude and get me up and out in the mornings! Flowers, roosters, nature, ceramics and making beauty with my hands! What better space could these be displayed, here in this beautiful intimate Redwood Grove!” – Jane Head
Art Horvath
Time Out
“Time Out” in memory of Jazz musician Dave Brubeck, Art Horvath has several stone pieces at the center but has been working in steel before he became interested in working with stone. After 20 years working in steel Art had the need to cut stone boulders and looking into how it was done he discovered wire saws that are used in stone cutting.
For 20 years Art has been designing, building and selling selling diamond wire saws along with cutting and making stone pieces. Art is still making large steel sculptures for himself and other artists.
Paul Lindhard
Light from Within
“My forty-year career as a working sculptor has evolved from woodcarving and bronze casting into a reverence for and fascination with stone, my principal medium for the past twenty-five years. The work I do is an expression of an unspoken language that connects me to forgotten earthly origins, linking place and time through the permanence that emanates from stone. In expressing myself through sculpture, I use materials that are rare, exotic, and monumental in scale. Collecting from native landscapes and quarries all over the world has given me the opportunity to compose sculpted and natural elements with an authentic spirit, while preserving their original nature and enduring presence. In addition to the effects of eons of geological evolution, these ancient objects bear a textural scarring from the quarrying process. Exposed to the elements and subject to extensive handling, many of these stone edifices have rested in my various studios and yards for decades before re-emerging as individual pieces or being incorporated into dynamic ensemble works. Whether embraced by me as found objects or carved and composed, my pursuit of what epic sculpture means in our modern world is focused and enriched by this transformative and highly-personal process.” ~Paul Lindhard
Charles Petersen
Broad-Tailed Hummingbird – Sold
Chuck Petersen’s hobby has been carving waterfowl and shorebirds off and on for over twenty-five years. Appreciation for wildlife art and the beauty of an individual feather was all it took to motivate him to pursue this art form. Guidance from notable wildlife artists Jim Sprankle, Vern Jones and Del Herbert all contributed to his winning many blue ribbons at exhibitions at the Pacific Wildlife Arts in San Diego and the Pacific Flyway Decoy Association in Sacramento. To take a block of wood, draw a pattern, carve and paint a bird is not only a great hobby, it is good therapy.
Nick Reno
Fire Oak #4
California Kaleidoscope
Free Bird
John Stickney
The Bridge that Ate Cars
The Bridge that Ate Cars is the result of my search for recycled Redwood. I was at the Redwood Lumber Baron in Berkeley and found some recycled redwood timbers. The wood was wonderful. I picked a piece that was about 8 ft long, 5 in wide and 12in high. When I was checking out, the Foreman told me that it was from the old Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. The Bridge was one of my earliest memories, driving across with my mother, to my father’s office (Architect) in San Francisco. I could not understand however, where the redwood came from on the bridge, I thought it was all steel. I was talking with someone recently who told me that it was actually wood that was placed around the footings of the bridge, around 2005, to protect the footings from oil spills in the bay, one of which had occurred recently.
After thinking of all the things I would love to do with the timber, I felt that the only thing that could do justice to the piece would be to pay homage to the source, and make a bridge out of it. A picture of my start on the project has been attached. How I finish the work is still evolving.
I grew up in Berkeley, graduating in 1975 from Berkeley High, then Humboldt, UCSB and then was a professor at the University of Georgia for 33 years, in Athens, GA. I retired 4 years ago, moving here to Mendonoma. I have always loved the redwoods, and have used Recycled Redwood for much of my work over the last few years.
Loraine Toth
Second Chances/Tree Witch
“ Second Chances”….inspired by old tree stumps thought dead, becoming hosts to new evolving life. High fired clay mounted on redwood
Clad Spirit/Tree Witch
“ Clad Spirit”. celebrates our essence, our presence and worth amidst natures forest garden. We are a part of it all. Merely a part, and that’s more than enough. High fired clay body mounted on redwood. Best hung where rain has no contact
Ravin’-Luna-Sea – Sold!
About Loraine- Born in New York City, graduated from NYC’s Fashion Institute Of Technology, and former fashion illustrator, worked under professor Rudolf Hausner at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy. Loraine began working with ceramics by taking a class with Diane Cochran and being mentored by Romana Anzi Downie. More recently Loraine has been practicing her art, with likeminded people at the College of the Redwoods under Bob Zvolensky, briefly at the Mendocino art center, and more recently in my own studio. Loraine lives in Elk, CA and loves her lucky life!
Roya Yasharpour
Interconnections I-III
Midnight Zone – Connection
AKA Roya’s “Creature”
My sculpture, ‘Creature,’ is inspired by the ocean’s magical Midnight Zone- it’s wonderfully strange flora and fauna look like space inhabitants to me. I am in awe of the ocean and in particular, the mystery and intelligence of the midnight zone
As with all my pieces, “Creature’ is made with natural material. Willow branches give its legs the appearance of movement while fallen gumballs from Sweet Gum trees and palm-tree parts add layers, as well as, beautifully-strange features. To secure its parts, I have incorporated metal wire and weaved in vines, grasses and ground cover.
“Creature” is inspired by the ocean’s midnight zone, a world I am particularly mesmerized by…. I am drawn to its strange, space-looking inhabitants and its quiet and mysterious darkness.
Walking around my neighborhood or on hikes, I see many similarities between the midnight zone’s ‘strange,’ ‘fantastical’ looking creatures and the plants and flowers along the way.
–Roya
David Yager
Undulation
Gualala Arts is creating a promotional brochure detailing the sculpture on the grounds and an accompanying page on the website. This event is an opportunity for artists to display and highlight their sculptures outdoors, and is also an opportunity for art-lovers to walk through the gardens and enjoy the sculptures. The sculptures that are part of the exhibit will be available for purchase. (The exhibit is separate and apart from those sculptures which are already part of Gualala Arts’ permanent collection.)
Subject to conditions this spring, a reception is scheduled for Friday, April 8, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Masks are required and physical distancing will be maintained for all events, exhibits and activities at Gualala Arts. We want all of our visitors to be safe, and to make their visit fun and full of good memories.
Sculpture in the Gardens Registration Form