Pavlina Nichole Showing at Sagebrush Cafe

From Sagebrush Cafe:

The next featured artist in the Sagebrush Cafe gallery space goes by the Tumblr name of Pavlina Nichole. With an opening reception scheduled for Saturday, September 12th, the anticipation for this show is building up – fast and steamy – like a stormy tea pot or an old school locomotive. (Don’t tip it over.)

Working in Mixed Media and fabric, Pavi is a creative force. You can take a look at what she does at her Tumblr page or follow her on Instagram.

 

You may have seen some of her work in one of the annual Arts & Crafts Fetes at Sagebrush. We’re looking forward to the burst of creative vision that Pavlina will bring to the space in a solo show.

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Art Events at Sagebrush Cafe

Sagebrush Café in Quartz Hill playing host to three art events this month. These events are all open to the public. All are invited to participate.

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Sagebrush Café: Coffee & Art House

42104 50^th Street W., Quartz Hill , CA 93536

sagebrush-café.com

Open 7 Days

 

Open Invitation Art Show: Sagebrush Cafe is putting out a call to Antelope Valley artists to participate in an open invitation art show this month. 25 spaces are available. First come, first serve.

Enter a two-dimensional work of art in any medium on any family friendly subject.

Check out the details at our website: sagebrush-cafe.com/arts

Drop off days are July 19-20. Opening reception on Saturday, July 25 at 5 p.m.

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Water Is Precious: Local artists are throwing an interactive and educational art party on July 19, hosted by Sagebrush Café.

“In the near future water will be worth more than Gold. In California, a state that has always had a complicated relationship with wealth, class, and water, we would like to invite you to envision a world where we wear small vials of water instead of diamonds, where we dress ourselves in fishbowls, and our designer handbags our replace with bottle waters. Join us for this interactive art party on Sunday July 19th at Sagebrush Café from 10 to Noon.”

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Flash-Fiction Caption Contest: With the help of two Antelope Valley photographers, Sagebrush Café is hosting a flash-fiction caption contest in the month of July. Local writers are invited to submit flash-fiction based on photos provided on our contest page.

“We’re calling it a Flash-Fiction Caption Contest but that doesn’t mean you have to write an actual caption. Write whatever you want as long as it relates to the photo somehow.”

Participating Photographers: Joanne McCubrey & Rheagan E. Martin

Contest rules at: sagebrushflashfiction.wordpress.com

David Babb: Between Place and Memory – at the Antelope Valley College Gallery

From the Antelope Valley College emailed press release:

Please join us at the Antelope Valley College Art Gallery for a special public reception for David Babb: Between Place and Memory including a conversation with artist on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm. Visitors to the exhibition can write their questions between now and March 4th, 2015 inside a notebook in the gallery which will become the basis for our conversation with David Babb.

David Babb: Between Place and Memory
February 16-March 20, 2015

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​Antelope Valley College Art Gallery presents David Babb: Between Place and Memory a solo exhibition of mixed media artwork from Antelope Valley College faculty member David Babb whose recent bodies of work use the changing landscape of nature and place as a metaphor to express how we perceive and project our individual identities, histories, and memories. The works invoke the wavering stripes between the earth and the sky, questioning the roaming nature of our perspectives as we move from childhood into our adult lives to envision the residue between the lines of these horizons as dependent on our experiences, location, history, recollection, and momentary personal identities. 

An avid and successful gardener, David Babb: Between Place and Memory highlights the recently completed series of digital transfer works titled “Secrets,” which feature Babb’s nocturnal photographs of flowers from his elaborate backyard garden. The photographs are compiled into illustrations which reference color, beauty, and transience to investigate the mental constructs and psychological landscapes of childhood as a vehicle for representing experiences of magic, fear, discovery, innocence, imagination and the ambiguity of our personal buried secrets. Together with his “Horizon Line” oil painting series of luminous background skies marred by the visual scars of rendered grey experiences, the vibrant lines in the foreground shadow the fleeting nature of our visual memories, the transience of life, and the perception of each of our individual landscapes.

The exhibition includes a new graphite paper tracing and acrylic drawing installation titled, “Trace Memory/Trace Evidence,” which visually captures the fragile process of remembering the past through the random compilation, orientation, and layering of images in a technique inspired by the transitional learning experience of AVC students. 

Visitors are also invited to participate in the community engagement activity “Kid Fears” by writing or drawing a response to the prompt, “What were you most afraid of growing up?” adding to a growing timeline of past and present memories currently on display in the exhibition, transforming the gallery space into a limitless horizon between place and memory–a collective secret garden.

This event is free and open to the public. 

Antelope Valley College Art Gallery
3041 West Avenue K
Lancaster, CA 93536

The Art Gallery is located in building FA1, the Fine Arts Building, located in the Fine Arts Quad on the West side of the Antelope Valley College Campus, adjacent to the Performing Arts Theater.

http://www.avc.edu/academics/kavapa/artgallery/
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Collage Art by Eric Martin Showing at Sagebrush Cafe

Collage Art by Eric Martin showing at Sagebrush Cafe

November 1, 2014 through January, 2015

“Making collage art is a bit like dreaming, for me anyway. Even when there is a plan, there is also quite a bit of moment-to-moment decision-making, spontaneity and accident. Pieces develop in fits and starts. You make leaps. Layers of ideas pile one on top of the other. Layers of potential meaning too. Associative thinking runs rampant.

“It’s tempting to wonder why certain images crop up in anyone’s art. And it’s tempting to wonder why certain images crop up in your own art. Why a boat? Why a horse? What do these images mean?

“Carl Jung once said, “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

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“Artists will relate to this notion and think immediately of the creative process – as a way of bringing the inside out, balancing the inner life with outward expression. But is art a way of waking up? Or is it a way of dreaming out loud? Maybe those two things are the same.

“Thinking about Carl Jung and his dream theories I tried to diagnose some of the pieces in this show. That turned out to be a real rabbit hole… They could mean anything. The unconscious mind reads like a horoscope.

“For my part, I think that some dreams do probably mean something, though I couldn’t say what. They may be pedestrian most of the time, just recycling a day’s memories. But sometimes they might be more than that. Discoveries can be made. In a dream, your eyes can be opened. What will you see?”

This is the text of my artist statement. I know it’s weird to put it in quotes since I am the editor of this blog. But that’s what I did, because…I don’t know. I just did.

Antelope Valley College Gallery: PhotoVoice: Look at Me – Disregard the Labels

Current Exhibition

PhotoVoice: Look at Me – Disregard the Labels

Exhibition dates:  August 25 – September 12, 2014
Artist Reception:  Wednesday, August 27, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Gallery Talk with the Artists at 7:15 p.m.

PhotoVoice pairs photographs and narratives to express the stigma, prejudice and discrimination personally experienced by those who live with mental illness.  Organized by Mental Health America and created by its participants, this grassroots movement is both expressive and educational, granting a voice to those not typically heard in public discourse or debate

The 2013 inaugural PhotoVoice project, “Look at Me – Disregard the Labels” materializes these efforts with a series of elegant posters combining image and text.  The display groups works by artists to emphasize the rich variety threading through each individual’s work.  Photographs range from stark symbolism to whimsy, from the literal to the poetic, spanning the emotional a gamut between hope and isolation. 

A crucial component of PhotoVoice is the communal support and discussion participants engaged in while finalizing these creations.  Having worked closely with the artists, project coordinator Chris Buchanan describes the collection as “a creative gift designed to give the community an inside look and better understanding of what it’s like to live with mental illness while helping our participants move through their individual recovery process.”

PhotoVoice has enjoyed a wildly successful opening year and toured multiple venues, including AVC.  The Art Gallery has the privilege of hosting the works for the first time in a gallery setting.  We hope this new context will extend the discussion generated by these works to pose challenging questions about why art is created, who makes it, and how it functions as part of society.

For additional information about exhibits, please visit our information page.

aj currado preparing a new show of paintings for Sagebrush Cafe in September

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New Gallery Show at Sagebrush Cafe

 

Distant Relatives, a show of mixed media works by june marie milham, puts a new spin on the concepts of 20th century nostalgia and the personal histories that inform it, creating a sense of shared and intimate American history.

On display now at Sagebrush Cafe. Details below.

Sagebrush Cafe (click to go to website)

42104 5oth Street West @ Ave. L-14

Quartz Hill, CA 93536

Art Events @ Quartz Hill’s Sagebrush Cafe

Arts Spotlight –

Camera Obscura

Slideshow – Hosted by Rheagan E. Martin

            August 11 (Wednesday)

            7pm

           (Link to Facebook Event Page)

            Part-time AV resident, full-time arts scholar, Rheagan E. Martin is putting together a group of artists to present recent works in a slideshow format at Sagebrush Café.

            Photography and digital media will wow, woo, and inspire you.

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Monkeys, Monsters & Mermaids – Gallery Show – Nicelle Davis

            August 14

            6 – 8pm

             Sagebrush Café’s gallery will be putting on several new faces, in a show by Nicelle Davis. Working with various media including clay & clay tablets, Victorian paper cutting and poetry, Davis presents a varied and animate perspective on the interior worlds we all possess, and which sometimes possess us.

Information Courtesy of Sagebrush Cafe newsletter.

Lake Hughes Gallery

This weekend marks the end of the current show at the Lake Hughes Art Gallery…Ken Kaylor and Tom Kaylor are the featured artists, doing work in stained glass, stucco paint and acrylic. The show has a unique vibrance, expecially the stucco works by the younger Mr. Kaylor, which literally pop out of the canvas.

Open Saturday & Sunday
10 am to 4 pm
Lake Hughes Road