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Gualala Arts Presents:
Sculpture in the Gardens
“Sculpture in the Gardens” is to be a year-long exhibit opening Friday, April 4, 2023 from 4-6 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
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New Sculpture!
Bruce Bibby
Untitled No. 6 (I’m Askew)
Perry Hoffman
Garden Faces
Janet Pierucci
Ears of the Sea
When I began to think about creating a piece for the Gualala Arts 2023 Sculpture in the Gardens exhibit, I knew the artwork must be “of the Northern California Coast”. Abalone shells and driftwood immediately came to mind. As the design began to emerge, copper became the third element.
As I worked with the abalone shells, I became curious about these beautiful natural art pieces. Abalone are marine snails according to Wikipedia and belong to the family Haliotidea of which there are between 30 and 130 species. The holes along the shell’s outer edge are respiratory pores. While nacre (mother-of-pearl) composes the thick inner layer of the shell. These mollusks are often referred to as “ears of the sea” due to their ear shaped shell.
Abalone have been a source of food for centuries and the shells have been used for bartering and for decorations. Currently, in California, strict laws regulate the harvesting of abalone and only red abalone are allowed to be harvested as the black, white, pink, flat, green, and pinto abalone are protected by laws. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, twenty of the 54 abalone species in the world are threatened with extension.
Throughout time, abalone have also acquired mystical qualities with a myriad of references to their healing qualities. They are “of the water” and are purported to have the ability to calm and sooth people and to promote love and compassion according to blisscrystals.com.
My curiosity extended to copper as well. Copper is thought to represent Venus, the Goddess of Love according to nativetrailshome.com.
Wood, driftwood in this case, symbolizes strength, endurance, stability, and transformation according to churchgists.com.
So, my sculpture, Ears of the Sea is one of calm, peace, love, strength, endurance, and transformation. If it hangs in your garden, perhaps you will achieve these benefits.
Nick Reno
Primary Burners
Loraine Toth
One with the Forest
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.
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
Nick Reno
Fire Oak #4
California Kaleidoscope
David Yager
Undulation
2024 Exhibit Entry
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Dates to Remember
TURN IN ENTRY FORM BY: 1/1/2024
DELIVER ARTWORK: March 2024
Please call for an appointment
PICK-UP ARTWORK: March 5-6, 2025
Exhibit Curators
Kendra Stillman
707.884.1138
Info@GualalaArts.org
David “Sus” Susalla
Sus@GualalaArts.org
Rules, Info & Important Stuff
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Dune Top by Kevin Carman Sculptures will be juried into the exhibit. Please provide pictures or a sketch of your sculpture and concept along with your registration form by January 1, 2024. You will be contacted by January 31 if you have been accepted into the exhibit.
- Please fill out an Entry Form for EACH piece, detailing title, media and price.
- The registration form provides information for the title cards, inventory list, brochure and website. It is essential that this information is correct, since this information is used in publicity materials, to track sales and send checks to artists.
- For this exhibit, artists are encouraged to create outdoor sculpture. Any media is encouraged, as long as it is suitable for outdoor space and will stand up to various weather conditions over the course of a full year.
- Gualala Arts carries no liability insurance for exhibited artwork. If the artist feels that insurance is needed they are encouraged to purchase it.
- Gualala Arts will retain 30% commission on all sales of entries made during the course of the exhibit.
- Please provide a brief statement about yourself and a description of the concept, materials and process used to create your sculpture. These details will be used in the Sculpture Garden brochure, website and other promotional materials.
- Please detail display requirement (hung on a wall, size of pedestal base etc.) Please note that display location will be decided by the Sculpture Garden Committee
- Any sculpture left after the pick-up date of March 7, 2025 will be considered a donation to Gualala Arts or may be subject to a $5 per day storage fee