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2024

Ken Jarvela

KEN JARVELA

We celebrate the Northern California painter Ken Jarvela with this incredible new selection of featured paintings.  Backpacker and painter, this exhibition explores wanderings through the Trinity Mountains, Sierra Nevadas, San Francisco Golden Gate, SF coast up to Southern Oregon oceans, rivers and high mountain lakes. 

 

2024

Carol Setterlund

 

Carol Setterlund   

 

I M A G I N E

an exhibition featuring sculptures & paintings

March 9 - April 5

Reception for the Artist

Saturday, 5 - 7pm, March 9th, 2024


Lazarus

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Fairy Tales

2024

Adam Wolpert

 

The Grove of Seasons

Adam Wolpert

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The Grove of Seasons

Adam Wolpert

Feature January 9th - Extended to February 12th, 2024 

The Grove of Seasons by Adam Wolpert is a celebration and honoring of the cyclical and mythical relational web of which we are part.  The showcase presents four large scale oil paintings on linen of heritage oak trees, each 60 x 84", each representing one of the four seasons; Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

2023

Antoinette Von Grone

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The Mouse Whisperer & the Bird Whisperer, oil on canvas

Antoinette von grone

Exhibition:  October 14 - November 14.       Reception for the Artist.  Saturday, 5 - 7pm.    October 14th, 2023
 

Biography on Antoinette Von Grone

It is a rarity for an artist to receive a green card in the United States on the grounds of “Exceptional Talent”, and it is here we introduce Antoinette Von Grone.  Born in 1954 as a Baroness in Kirchbrak, West Germany, Von Grone’s journey as an artist moves gracefully between silk, tiles, and murals to the canvas. Formal studies of Textile Design & the Arts took Von Grone to the College for Applied Arts in Hannover, Germany, the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and the private Haute Couture school, Ecole Gogele, in Paris, France, whereupon she earned a degree in Fashion Design.



Quiet and bold, regal and stoic, it is with humor, reverence and intrigue that we greet Von Grone’s new body of work.  Her range is diverse as her subjects, both grand and familiar; taking us from the rural farm and animal life of Northern California to Africa.  She celebrates the local and exotic in her “Icons of Nature” with gilded Dutch gold leaf on panel, bringing fantasy and whimsy to her “Animal Ancestors” and captures the human spirit with her return to portraiture.

2023

Bob Nugent

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Bob nugent

June 10th - 29th 2023

Conversation and celebration with the artist
thursday, june 29
th, 5 - 6:30 PM

at Erickson fine art gallery
324 healdsburg avenue, healdsbsurg, ca
 



NATURE ABSTRACTEDcurated by Jeff Nathanson
Featuring Chimoyi T. Longo, Bob Nugent, and Younhee Paik
June 17 - November 5th, 2023
Museum of Sonoma County
425 7th Street, Santa Rosa, Ca 95401
www.museumsc.org / 707-579-1500

2022

Adam Wolpert

Adam Wolpert
The Great oakS

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2021

EXTRACTION: Art at the Edge of the Abyss

Extraction: Art at the Edge of the Abyss 
includes artists Chester Arnold, Christopher Evans, Bob Nugent, Lynda Nugent,  Adam Wolpert and Antoinette Von Grone.  This presentation of artwork is part of a multi venue exhibition at numerous museums and galleries internationally.  Started by Sam Pelts and Peter Koch with the Codex Foundation, Extraction: Art at the Edge of the Abyss aims to bring attention to anthropogenic activities,  from mining to human consumption, mankind is directing the future of our planet.  Our individual choices add up to make a tremendous impact.    More information on the this Global Movement, link here:  Extraction: Art at the Edge of the Abyss. 

2021

Jerome Kirk

JEROME KIRK

October 5 - November 5th, 2019

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KIRK- QUEST, 1968

2018

Susan Hall

Susan Hall

Paintings & Ceramics

December 8- December 28,  2018

2018

 Bob Nugent

Bob Nugent 

BRAZIL

January 13- February 13  2018

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Field Study #2 Oak Gall

Brazil & the Amazon River Basin

Artist’s Statement

 

Brazil and the Amazon River Basin have been the subject and inspiration of my work for more than thirty years.  Naturalistic forms resembling beeves, vertebrae, cocoons, anthills, platt forms and insects are spread across the surface of the work.  The Amazon River is an apt metaphor for the act of churning up remembered objects and sights, gathered while traveling along its rough course.  

 

The work transcribes a memory of these objects and impressions of what was seen and felt.  In its flow, the river boils and object to the surface only to swallow it up again to resurface later.  My palette is often subdued beneath a layer of darkness, suggesting mystery.  These impressions are a memory of the forever bound on both sides by a high, dark jungle; foreboding and beautiful. When the jungle takes you in, it takes you in whole.  

 

In visiting the region three or four times a year I find that the landscape has many moods.  These new paintings show the contrast and conflict between the beauty of the Amazon and its continued destruction. Modern man sees the rainforest as a tremendous resource and at the same time we are in the process of depleting it.  Although the indigenous groups have lived harmoniously in the that environment for generations, we cannot yet find the balance needed to protect this resource for the future.

 

Bob Nugent

2018

2017

Paul Van Lith

Paul Van Lith Sculpting the Figure features 28 color pages of artwork by Van Lith to be featured in the upcoming show 7/25 gouge at Erickson Fine Art Gallery in Healdsburg, CA.  Catalog release May 20th.

Paul Van Lith is a local Northern California sculptor focusing on classical and abstracted figurative sculpture.  Born in San Francisco in 1949, Paul lived, traveled and studied throughout the US, Japan and Greece.  

 

Paul Van Lith's admiration of the figure is explored in both the serious and playful studies of form, shape, and texture throughout the work.  Homage is no doubt given to art history's great sculptors Constantin Brancusi, Marino Marini, Leonard Baskin, and Henry Moore.

7 / 25 gouge features over two dozen new works in wood and large outdoor sculptures made of concrete and stucco.  A color catalog showcasing the artist's diversity of figurative works over 30 years will be released and available opening night.

Opening evening reception Saturday, May 20th 2017 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. The exhibition runs from May 20 - June 20th. 

2017

Carol Setterlund

CANTOS- Songs for a New Year

2016

Carlos Perez

CARLOS PEREZ



A contemporary showing of new work by Carlos Perez blends portraiture and abstraction using traditional oil painting and mixed media.  Introspective subjects appear and dissapear through language, overlays, surface and gaze.  A thoughtful and sophisticated new body of work by Perez.

2015

Joe Draegert

JOE DRAEGERT

 

New paintings by artist Joe Draegert combine with a debut; his book entitled "An American Painter".  This highly anticipated Biography includes over 50 pages of color images categorizing works starting from the 1960's to the present.  Writings by Wayne Theibaud, Renny Pritikin, Phil Linhires and Dan Kasser.

 

to purchase the book, click here

 

2015

Antoinette Von Grone

ANTOINETTE VON GRONE



Quiet and bold, regal and stoic, it is with humor, reverence and intrigue that we greet Von Grone’s new body of work.  Her range is diverse as her subjects, both grand and familiar; taking us from the rural farm and animal life of Northern California to Africa.  She celebrates the local and exotic in her “Icons of Nature” with gilded Dutch gold leaf on panel, bringing fantasy and whimsy to her “Animal Ancestors” and captures the human spirit with her return to portraiture.

2014

Bob Nugent

2012

Jerome Kirk-Carol Setterlund-Antoinette Von Grone-Tom Monaghan-Jeffrey Van Dyke

Susan Hall-Jeanne Mullen

 

 

 

 

2011

 

 

2010 Bobette Barnes

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