Gualala Arts Promoting public interest and participation in the arts since 1961
April brings unique exhibit and performance events to the Burnett Gallery at Gualala Arts. Lines & Faces, a fine press and publishing company under the direction of Alan Bern and Robert Woods, has produced fine art broadsides for over 40 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bern and Woods, along with dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver and musician Karl Young have come together to create a unique performance event, “Wrapped in Ruins” at Gualala Arts employing some images from the Lines & Faces broadsides.
As a complimentary event of the new exhibit “Wrapped in Ruins”, the group will present a series of live performances, scheduled for Saturday, April 15 at 4 pm and 5 pm and again on Saturday, May 6, also at 4 pm and 5 pm. Tickets for performances are $20 advance, $5 more the day of, and are available at Gualala Arts, Dolphin Gallery, and EventBrite.com. Please note: Masks and vaccinations are both required for the ticketed events.
Some background on the creators:
Lucinda Weaver grew up dancing in Berkeley, California. She studied at the University of California at Berkeley with David Wood and in New York City, where she met Margaret Jenkins who invited her to be a founding member of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in San Francisco. She then lived in Europe where she worked and performed as a solo dancer/ choreographer. Currently she works as a Physical Therapist. Weaver is also on the guest faculty of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri, a physical theater university in Switzerland.
Retired children’s librarian Alan Bern is a poet and storywriter with three books of poetry and is a published/exhibited photographer. Bern is cofounder with artist/printer Robert Woods of the fine press/publisher Lines & Faces, linesandfaces.com. IN THE PACE OF THE PATH is Alan’s first full-length hybrid of poetry, prose, and photos, forthcoming from UnCollected Press. Recent awards include: Winner, Saw Palm Poetry Contest (2022); Flash Fiction Finalist, Ekphrastic Sex (2021); and Winner, Littoral Press Poetry Prize (2015). Recent and upcoming writing and photo work in: Haunted Waters Press, Feral, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, The Hyacinth Review, and swifts & slows: a quarterly of crosscrossings.
Robert Woods worked as a printer for over thirty years at Madison Street Press in Oakland, California. Woods trained as both a fine artist and craftsman at the University of California at Santa Barbara and with a number of practicing artists. He is a painter, sculptor, wood engraver, and printmaker.
After spending some time as a jazz tenor saxophone player Karl Young embarked on a career as a physicist and chose to satisfy his musical yearnings with an intensive study of the shakuhachi or Japanese bamboo flute. Over the past 20 years he has studied with a number of teachers; his primary sensei are Kaoru Kakizakai and Riley Lee, both masters in the dokyoku tradition. He is co-founder of the group Ensohza formed in 2006, specializing in traditional minyo and Japanese folk dance, in which he plays the shinobue or transverse bamboo flute as well as the shakuhachi.